2010/10/26 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Control or laissez-faire?

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Supply networks are constantly changing. Perhaps not controlling, but letting things happen and letting supply networks emerge is the best management strategy? [ ... ]

2010/03/27 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Ménage à trois - the good, the bad and the ugly

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Triads in supply networks: Theorizing buyer-supplier-relationships by Thomas Y Choi and Zhaohui Wu is a fascinating read and a brilliant attempt at classifying buyer-supplier triads into nine distinctively different configurations. [ ... ]

2009/05/11 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain

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We need to consider how a supplier is embedded in its own networks if we are to truly gauge its performance. [ ... ]