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2009/07/01 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

Supply chain management - the new research cocktail?

Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory building based on learned borrowing from other disciplines. That is how academians can breathe new life into the study of supply chain management. So say Michael E. Smith and Lee Buddress in their 2005 article, Supply chain management: borrowing our way to a discipline. But what do they actually mean? And why does supply chain management need a wider horizon in the first place?

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2009/06/10 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

Broader research = better research?

I have always seen myself as a cross-disciplinary thinker, and I guess that is why I am so often sidetracked and led astray by a-maze-ing discoveries when attempting to focus on a subject. But browsing other areas of study and even borrowing ideas from them can be very beneficial. It can shed a different light on things, and at best, help you not to reinvent the wheel.  At least that is what James Stock thought in 1997, when he wrote: Applying theories from other disciplines to logistics.

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