A framework for supply chain performance measurement

https://www.icesi.edu.co/blogs/semillerosi3/files/2013/12/3-SUPPLY-CHAIN-MANAGEMENT-A-ANALYTICAL-FRAMEWORK-FOR-CRITICAL-LITERATURE-REVIEW.pdf

Supply chain management: an analytical framework for critical literature review

https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/8695.pdf

Supply management orientation and supplier/buyer performance

I develop a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literature on global commodity chains and global production networks, on institutional entrepreneurship, and on neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy The framework views global production networks as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems in which market and political power are intertwined The framework offers insights into contested political and social issues, such as sweatshops and incomes for coffee growers

Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

This essay challenges claims by economists and management scholars that 'offshoring' is simply another form of trade with mutual benefits. I argue that reducing wages through offshoring leads to wealth creation for shareholders but not necessarily for countries and employees, and that many displaced workers have difficulty 'trading up' to higher skilled jobs. Offshoring is a new phenomenon that entails the organizational and technological ability to relocate specific tasks and coordinate a geographically dispersed network of activities. It decouples the linkages between economic value creation and geographic location. The result is the creation of global commodity markets for particular skills and a shift in the balance of market power among firms, workers, and countries.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/joms_514.pdf?abstractid=704697&mirid=1

Offshoring in the New Global Political Economy

Looks at globalization and lean production and their possible interaction. Depicts production as ‘a tightly coupled, flexible system’ centred on JIT (just‐in‐time) delivery and low inventories, which requires continuous improvement as a component quality necessary in the process. Describes global supply chain strategy's conflicting goals as: JIT delivery; low inventory; lead times; flexible manufacturing; and close relationships with suppliers. Concludes that managers can evaluate the trade‐off between locating those activities close to corporate design and production functions.

T Kippenberger

Papers

Lean production in an international supply chain