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A new approach for understanding hindrances to collaborative practices in the…

The paper attempts to determine whether decision-makers in the manufacturing and retailing industry really wish to implement cooperative logistical relationships in the long term.

Supply chain collaboration: what’s happening?

Collaboration has been referred to as the driving force behind effective supply chain management and may be the ultimate core capability. However, there is a fairly widespread belief tha few firms have truly capitalized on its potential. A study was undertaken to assess the current level of supply chain collaboration and identify best practice.

Review of logistics and supply chain relationship literature and suggested re…

The paper aims to provide an overview of the evolution of relationship-related research in the areas of logistics and supply chain management.

Managing a global supply chain partnership

Presents a survey of the global supply chain management (GSCM) literature with specific emphasis on the application of the process, services and products used by organizations to achieve competitive advantage and market position. Through case studies, we look at the current management practice used by multinational corporations such as Campbell Soup, Kmart, Dell Computer, Hewlett- Packard, Digi…

Carrier involvement in buyer-supplier strategic partnerships

Refers to the recent trend to utilize strategic alliances and partnerships for securing both goods and services. Additionally, the supply chain management concept is gaining more acceptance as a method of sustaining a competitive advantage in global markets. Although the literatur explores strategic partnerships within both the buyer and supplier context and the shipper and logistics context, t…

Pitfalls in logistics partnerships

In 1973, Distribution magazine published an article by a public warehousing executive which stated the opinion that the relationship between the public warehouse operator and the customer should be one of partnership. An angry response was later published as a letter to the editor. The writer was a food industry logistics executive who also was former editor of the magazine. His attack on the a…

Carrier involvement in buyer-supplier strategic partnerships

Refers to the recent trend to utilize strategic alliances and partnerships for securing both goods and services. Additionally, the supply chain management concept is gaining more acceptance as a method of sustaining a competitive advantage in global markets. Although the literature explores strategic partnerships within both the buyer and supplier context and the shipper and logistics context, …

Partner management – managing service partnerships in the supply chain – …

The purpose of the research is to shed light on the question of how elements of a partnership system interact to provide a basis for an enhanced performance management framework.

Partnerships in UK defense procurement

Since the 1998 Strategic Defense Review, the UK Government reversed its competition policy and now seeks to improve defense procurement relationships with industry through partnering. However, at a time when the defense industries are concentrating and globalizing and more and more of the large contracts are being managed under monopoly conditions, substantive relationship improvements are hard…

Operational collaboration between shippers and carriers in the transportation…

The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of how strategic relationships between firms and environmental context affect operational decisions and how each firm allocates resources to improve overall firm performance.

Operational collaboration between shippers and carriers in the transportation…

The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of how strategic relationships between firms and environmental context affect operational decisions and how each firm allocates resources to improve overall firm performance.

Justification and evaluation of dry port investments in Russia

The hinterland infrastructure (e.g. dry ports that tend to bond railways, seaports, warehouses and roads) is one of the vulnerable points of the national economics. In the deficit of financial resources, the modernisation of the current assets and realisation of the new major projects are possible through public private partnerships (PPPs). Notably, the attention is focussed on the options for …

Public-private partnerships for the provision of port infrastructure: an expl…

Public-private cooperation on the level of project finance, and provision of large-scale infrastructure projects, is increasing on the global level. This paper uses a multi-actor analysis, in order to explore the critical success factors (CSFs) for sound implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the port context, and to determine the diverging opinions of stakeholders with regard …

The role of personal relationships in supply chains: An exploration of buyers…

The purpose of this paper is to understand how personal relationships influence behavior within a supply-chain context.

Unfruitful cooperative purchasing : A case of humanitarian purchasing power

The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of cooperative purchasing on buyers’ purchasing power. Purchasing in the humanitarian sector has traditionally been characterized by a low level of coordination due to inter-agency competition for funding, diverging mandates and other organizational differences. Relationships with commercial suppliers have also remained arm's-length and of…

Symbiotic Logistics

The increased utilization and popularity of logistics partnerships dictates the necessity of a robust and soundly constructed theoretical foundation for examining these alliances. Towards achieving this goal, this paper proposes and develops the symbiotic logistics concept. Symbiotic logistics relationships occur when two or more organizations develop a synergistic relationship(s) within their …

Retail service-based operant resources and market performance

The service‐dominant logic (SDL) concept is reshaping the view of business‐to‐business research and practice. Thus, understanding the role of knowledge‐based operant resources, a key component of the SDL paradigm, in the ability of supply chains to shape competitive advantage and performance outcomes is vital. Further, operant resources have a hierarchical structure, with differing effe…

Purchasing's role in supply chain management

The concept and importance of supply chain management (SCM) has been introduced and described at length in the literature. Several mostly conceptual definitions of SCM were found. To classify these multiple definitions and extend SCM to include a process orientation a conceptual model of SCM evolution was developed. This research proposes that SCM is an evolving concept with individual firms …

Honeymoons in supply chain relationships : The effects of financial capital, …

Cooperation in logistics and supply chain management has most often been studied as a characteristic of a focal firm, rather than as a relationship property, and inter-organisational aspects need to be better understood. The purpose of this paper is to draw on insights from theories on individuals and organisations to study recently formed supply chain relationships (SCRs).

Formal versus informal contracts: achieving alliance success

Observes that strategic alliances continue to be an important research and business focus. Many firms struggle with how to link alliance theory with actual practice. In particular, managers question how long‐term commitment between alliance partners is developed and achieved. Traditional business practice has relied primarily on formal written contracts, but informal social contracts or ver…

Disintegration and re-integration: logistics of the twenty-first century

The traditional hierarchical model of command and control that served through the U.S. Industrial Revolution has undergone significant change in the past decade. Part of the changes have been prompted by global alliances of business partners. Other changes are the result of new enabling information technology that dramatically alters the role of information in the corporation. Still other cha…

Determining the value of information for different partners in the supply chain

The paper aims to define the most beneficial types of information within a supply chain and their level of value for different partners in the supply chain. A secondary objective of this study is to compare the literature focus with the practitioners’ perception concerning the value adding information types and their value level in the supply chains.

Channel cooperation: a reflective scale

The purpose of this paper is to draw on theories on inter-organisational governance with a view to developing a reliable reflective scale for measuring inter-firm cooperation in supply chains for use in logistics management research.

Buyer observations of the US third-party logistics market

Outsourcing of logistics has become a key element of corporate strategy in a growing number of firms. For a variety of reasons, the market for these services is expanding rapidly. Represents the first phase of a triangulated research design formulated to investigate empirically the buying and selling of third‐party logistics services in the USA. A focus group, composed of senior managers pe…

The elements of a successful logistics partnership

A successful partnership is like a marriage. Neither just happens: both relationships require constant hard work from the parties involved. Both parties must understand each other’s needs, and must be compatible, with shared values. Like a marriage, a successful logistics partnership requires open communications, mutual commitment to the partnership, fairness and flexibility. Both partners mu…