Delivering societal impact through supply chain design: insights from B Corps

Creating Competitive Advantage Through the Supply Chain: Insights on India

Design of supply chain in fuzzy environment

Nowadays, customer expectations are increasing and organizations are prone to operate in an uncertain environment. Under this uncertain environment, the ultimate success of the firm depends on its ability to integrate business processes among supply chain partners. Supply chain management emphasizes cross-functional links to improve the competitive strategy of organizations. Now, companies are ...

Power and Supply Chain Management – Insights from Russia

The research topic of power relationships has been receiving increasingly more attention lately. However, only a few scientific works have studied power in the context of supply chain management. In this regard, intriguing research questions arise of how to distinguish among and deal with negative and positive effects of power in order to avoid problems and use power as an effective tool for su...

Crime reduction through design: insights from ecodesign

The recognition for humankind to act in more sustainable ways has evolved new theory and practice within design. This new type of design is commonly described as ecodesign. This paper describes the different approaches to ecodesign and places them within a framework illustrating a broad range of initiatives. Approaches to crime are explored in relation to the ecodesign framework and conceptual ...

Supply Chain Design: An Overview

In recent years, the rapid technological advancements, the increased economic uncertainty, and the globalization of economic activities have resulted in fierce competition, and more sophisticated and demanding customers. These characteristics of the new economic environment are translated to short product life cycles, increased demand for customized products, and quick response to customers’ an...