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What is Management in Supply Chain Management? – A Critical Review of Definitions, Frameworks and Terminology,
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss that organizational rewards should strategically recognize good work habits and enhance the performance of each employee, which should be aligned with the organization's values and objectives.
Abstract: In today’s competitive and global workplace, one of the strategies that successful companies use is having the ability to attract many qualified candidates, retain top talent, and maintain a highly motivated workforce. So what can an organization and managers do to attract, retain and motivate a talented workforce? Successful companies have various types of organizational reward programs that recognize and reinforce good employee performance. In this paper, the authors discuss that organizational rewards should strategically recognize good work habits and enhance the performance of each employee. This is a practice-based paper about performance management, reward systems, giving feedback, and recognition programs which should be strategically aligned with the organization’s values and objectives. The content is helpful for managers, human resource professionals and organizational leaders who are considering the implementation of various reward systems and pay programs.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the joint influence of dependence and trust in supply chain relationships on supply chain integration (SCI) and financial performance and found that trust with customers/suppliers significantly influences SCI.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the joint influence of dependence and trust in supply chain relationships on supply chain integration (SCI) and financial performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study develops a dependence-trust-SCI-performance model and tests it using structural equation modeling based on empirical data collected from 617 manufacturers in China. Findings – The results show that trust with customers/suppliers significantly influences SCI. Although dependence on customers/suppliers has no direct effect on SCI, it improves SCI indirectly through trust with customers/suppliers. Both supplier integration and customer integration significantly improve financial performance. Practical implications – This study suggests that manufacturers should manage dependence and trust in supply chain relationships simultaneously to enable SCI. When there is high-level dependence on customers/suppliers, manufacturers should invest resources to develop trust with those customers/s...
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TL;DR: In this article, a structured literature review attempts to map the various theories in the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) literature from the perspectives of economic performance, environmental dimensions, and social values and ethics.
Abstract: The business enterprises are increasingly focusing on buying and supplying of products and services in a manner to reduce the adverse impacts on the environment, society, and economy. In view of the above, the concept of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has received attention of the industry and academia due to its importance on environmental, social and corporate responsibility through economic performance. The paper aims to discuss these issues.,The structured literature review attempts to map the various theories in the SSCM literature from the perspectives of economic performance, environmental dimensions, and social values and ethics.,As supply management is vital for enhancing organizational competitiveness, the present work attempts to investigate the theoretical perspectives in SSCM to develop an understanding of the current research activities and future potentials.,This work aims to gain a number of valid insights for the practitioners and the researchers. It also focuses on the perspectives of governance mechanisms for successful implementation SSCM practices in the business enterprises.,As the theory building initiatives with implications on the conceptualization of SSCM is limited in literature, this work has also been able to identify the trends and relevant research gaps to define the potential areas for future research.
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TL;DR: The main aim of this paper is to develop a performance measurement method which links supply chain processes’ performance to a company’s financial strategy through demonstrating and utilising the relationship between SC processes' performance and a company's financial performance.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors have developed a sustainable supply chain network which can respond to a certain degree of uncertainty due to uncontrollable forces, motivated by the three P's of people, planet, and profit.
Abstract: There is growing interest among researchers in the concept of sustainability. Large commercial corporations have also shown responsibility for preserving planet and people while maintaining profit. Our present paper is motivated by the three P’s—people, planet, and profit. In our paper, we have attempted to develop a responsive sustainable supply chain network which can respond to a certain degree of uncertainty due to uncontrollable forces. We have developed a model using robust optimization based on three well-known robust counterpart optimization formulations. Finally, this paper compares the results of the three formulations using different test scenarios and parameter-sensitive analysis in terms of final output, CPU time, the level of conservatism, the degree of closeness to the ideal solution, the degree of balance involved in developing a compromise solution, and satisfaction degree. Two further questions related to environmental dimensions and social dimensions have been investigated using an appreciative inquiry, a quasi-ethnographic study. In this way, we have embraced mixed research design to address our research questions. We have extended past research by incorporating uncertainty in a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model and qualitative research methods to fill the voids. We have concluded our research with limitations of our present study and outlined further research directions.
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...Zipkin [107] and Naslund and Williamson [70] were both pessimistic about supply chain and the way the subject has been dealt with in recent years....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a range of perspectives on the research challenges facing the OM research with respect to what the authors research and how the authors conduct it, and discuss the emerging landscape in which future OM research will be conducted.
Abstract: Purpose – The world is changing – economically, technologically, politically, and socially. As an academic discipline, operations management (OM) is, almost by definition, close to practice. Are our OM research methods fit for purpose for the new age? This paper reflects on and develops the principal themes discussed in the “OM Methodology” Special Session at the 2011 EurOMA Conference in Cambridge, UK. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach – The emerging landscape in which future OM research will be conducted is discussed. The paper provides a range of perspectives on the research challenges facing the discipline with respect to what the authors research and how the authors research it. The range of methods open to us and their relative merits and challenges are debated.Findings – The traditional research divide between quantitative modelling, often normative in outlook, and the more reflective modes of qualitative enquiry, with a wide spectrum of empirical work in between, i...
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...How much of it for instance do we consider “established theory” in our discipline that could ultimately appear in standard P/OM textbooks? The improvement trajectory work noted above moves in that direction (no pun intended), but how much else? The field of supply chain management has proved particularly problematic in this regard, whether in terms of definition, scope or knowledge base and has generated much debate (Sanders, 2009; Dooley, 2010; Naslund and Williamson, 2010; Stock et al., 2010)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, a model is tested in which burnout and engagement have different predictors and different possible consequences, showing that burnout is mainly predicted by job demands but also by lack of job resources, whereas engagement is exclusively predicted by available job resources.
Abstract: This study focuses on burnout and its positive antipode—engagement. A model is tested in which burnout and engagement have different predictors and different possible consequences. Structural equation modeling was used to simultaneously analyze data from four independent occupational samples (total N = 1698). Results confirm the hypothesized model indicating that: (1) burnout and engagement are negatively related, sharing between 10 per cent and 25 per cent of their variances; (2) burnout is mainly predicted by job demands but also by lack of job resources, whereas engagement is exclusively predicted by available job resources; (3) burnout is related to health problems as well as to turnover intention, whereas engagement is related only to the latter; (4) burnout mediates the relationship between job demands and health problems, whereas engagement mediates the relationship between job resources and turnover intention. The fact that burnout and engagement exhibit different patterns of possible causes and consequences implies that different intervention strategies should be used when burnout is to be reduced or engagement is to be enhanced. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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...Studies demonstrate that there is a positive relationship between the resources available to employees, fairness of the compensation, the amount of information exchanged between employees and managers, and workers’ level of stress and burnout on the job (Schaufeli and Bakker, 2004)....
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01 Sep 1998TL;DR: The seven revolutions for sustainable capitalism: competition, competition, triple win revolution, values from me to we revolution, information and transparency, no hiding place revolution, lifecylces from conception to resurrection revolution, partnerships after the honeymoon revolution, time three scenarios revolution, corporate governance, stake in the future, sustainability transition, value shifts, value migrations the worlds of money and power, sustainability audit, how are you placed.
Abstract: Introduction - is capitalism sustainable? seven revolutions for sustainable capitalism revolution 1 - competition - going for the triple win revolution 2 - values - from me to we revolution 3 - information and transparency - no hiding place revolution 4 - lifecylces - from conception to resurrection revolution 5 - partnerships - after the honeymoon revolution 6 - time - three scenarios revolution 7 - corporate governance - stake in the future the sustainability transition - value shifts, value migrations the worlds of money and power the sustainability audit - how are you placed?
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TL;DR: A management construct cannot be used effectively by practitioners and researchers if a common agreement on its definition is lacking as discussed by the authors, which is the case with the term "supply chain management".
Abstract: A management construct cannot be used effectively by practitioners and researchers if a common agreement on its definition is lacking. Such is the case with the term “supply chain management”—so many definitions are used that there is little consensus on what it means. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine the existing research in an effort to understand the concept of “supply chain management.” Various definitions of SCM and “supply chain” are reviewed, categorized, and synthesized. Definitions of supporting constructs of SCM and a framework are then offered to establish a consistent means to conceptualize SCM. Antecedents and consequences of SCM are identified, and the boundaries of SCM in terms of business functions and organizations are proposed. A conceptual model and unified definition of SCM are then presented that indicate the nature, antecedents, and consequences of the phenomena.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzes four sources of the bullwhip effect: demand signal processing, rationing game, order batching, and price variations, and shows that the distortion tends to increase as one moves upstream.
Abstract: (This article originally appeared in Management Science, April 1997, Volume 43, Number 4, pp. 546-558, published by The Institute of Management Sciences.)
Consider a series of companies in a supply chain, each of whom orders from its immediate upstream member. In this setting, inbound orders from a downstream member serve as a valuable informational input to upstream production and inventory decisions. This paper claims that the information transferred in the form of "orders" tends to be distorted and can misguide upstream members in their inventory and production decisions. In particular, the variance of orders may be larger than that of sales, and distortion tends to increase as one moves upstream-a phenomenon termed "bullwhip effect." This paper analyzes four sources of the bullwhip effect: demand signal processing, rationing game, order batching, and price variations. Actions that can be taken to mitigate the detrimental impact of this distortion are also discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale literature review and use conceptual theory building to introduce the concept of sustainability to the field of supply chain management and demonstrate the relationships among environmental, social, and economic performance within a supply chain context.
Abstract: Purpose – The authors perform a large‐scale literature review and use conceptual theory building to introduce the concept of sustainability to the field of supply chain management and demonstrate the relationships among environmental, social, and economic performance within a supply chain management context.Design/methodology/approach – Conceptual theory building is used to develop a framework and propositions representing a middle theory of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM).Findings – The authors introduce the concept of sustainability – the integration of environmental, social, and economic criteria that allow an organization to achieve long‐term economic viability – to the logistics literature, and position sustainability within the broader rubric of SSCM. They then present a framework of SSCM and develop research propositions based on resource dependence theory, transaction cost economics, population ecology, and the resource‐based view of the firm. The authors conclude by discussing manageri...
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...While reviewing the sustainability literature, Carter and Rogers (2008) found that there were other aspects of sustainability often mentioned but rarely included in explicit definitions....
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