Increasingly, supplier relationship management (SRM) is being viewed as strategic, process-oriented, cross-functional, and value-creating for buyer and seller, and a means of achieving superior financial performance. This paper seeks to describe a macro level cross-functional view of SRM and to provide a structure for managing business-to-business relationships to co-create value and increase …
Ship management, aiming to the safe and efficient ship operation, has evolved in the way it is conducted and the means it uses to achieve its purpose. This is primarily a response to environmental forces which impact on it through various avenues, like economic, institutional, commercial and social ones. This paper aims to reflect on a number of recent developments with a view to provide a crit…
The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, review the literature on the topic of behavioural antecedents of collaboration and their impact on supply chain integration and performance; second, lay the theoretical foundations and develop a conceptual model linking behavioural antecedents of collaboration, information integration, coordination of operational decisions and supply chain performa…
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…
The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of the role of humanitarian cluster leads through applying lessons from the fourth-party logistics (4PL) literature.
Contemporary armed conflicts predominantly take place in developing countries and there are often non-state actors involved in them. Civilians have been deliberately targeted in recent conflicts, and the international community has paid more attention to their protection. Human security means that individuals’ safety is a priority on the security agenda. Organizational learning is necessary i…
Indonesia is an archipelago that has the territorial waters of two-thirds of the total area. As one of the largest State-owned Enterprise in the field of port services in Indonesia, IPC has very varied customers. However, until now the IPC have not mapped the customer yet, whereas vital relationship with the customer to be able to retain current customers and att…