Supply Network Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780470518540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 270 str.

Lars-Erik Gadde

Opis

Supply Network Strategies deals with how companies activate relationships with suppliers in order to become more efficient and innovative. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on the ways in which these relationships link companies in supply chains and networks.

Spis treści

Preface.

PART I SUPPLY NETWORK CHALLENGES.

Chapter One Purchasing Faces New Challenges.

Chapter Two The Supplier Base.

Chapter Three Physical Flows in Supply Networks.

PART II SUPPLY NETWORK ANALYSIS.

Chapter Four Purchasing and the Combining of Resources.

Chapter Five Purchasing and the Configuring of Activities.

Chapter Six Purchasing and the Positioning of Actors.

PART III SUPPLY NETWORK STRATEGIES.

Chapter Seven Relating Developing Relationships with Suppliers.

Chapter Eight Bounding Setting the Border Around the Buying Firm.

Chapter Nine Organising Designing Internal–External Couplings.

Chapter Ten Strategising Applying the Supply Network Perspective.

References.

Index.

O autorze

Lars–Erik Gadde is Professor of Industrial Marketing at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Håkan Håkansson is Professor of Marketing at BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway.

Göran Persson is Professor of Business Logistics at BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway.

Blurb

How companies activate relationships with suppliers has a huge impact on them becoming more efficient and innovative. This new edition of Supply Network Strategies has been substantially revised. Although the basic, three–part structure remains the same, the first and third parts have undergone considerable changes. In part one, Challenges, the authors relate to the situation of two specific companies and explore the challenges they face in purchasing functions today; in part two, Analysis, the analysis of purchasing from an industrial network perspective appears revised and updated; and part three, Strategy, discusses potential strategies for dealing with these challenges.

Features:

• A thoroughly revised and updated book on purchasing to develop the supply network.
• A wealth of new empirical illustrations and cases in order to relate directly to purchasing in practice.
• Adoption of the industrial network approach developed through the research of the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) Group.

Supply Network Strategies has been written for students taking courses in purchasing, business networks, and supply chain management on advanced undergraduate and masters level courses. This new edition will also be of great interest to the thinking professional working in purchasing.