Supply Network Strategies

by Lars-Erik Gadde; Hakan Hakansson; Goran Persson

• ISBN13: 9780470518540
• ISBN10: 0470518545
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-10-11
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons UK

Summary

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. In this book, Gadde & H?kansson examine the supply side of companies from a network perspective. The IMP (Industrial Purchasing and Marketing) Group of researchers includes leading international experts in the fields of industrial / business marketing and purchasing. This group is very influential and many university courses have been developed based on the 'philosophy' of the IMP group.

Table of Contents

Preface

Purchasing Faces New Challenges

The Supplier Base

Physical Flows in Supply Networks

Purchasing and the Combining of Resources

Purchasing and the Configuring of Activities

Purchasing and the Positioning of Actors

Relating - Developing Relationships with Suppliers

Bounding - Setting the Border Around the Buying Firm

Organising - Designing Internal-External Couplings

Strategising - Applying the Supply Network Perspective

Index

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