Interorganizational Alignment of Strategic Orientations in Supply Chains

Interorganizational Supply Chains: a Game-theoretic Approach

In this paper, we analyze negotiations of investment shares in interorganizational supply chains. To formulate the research issue more precisely, we develop a taxonomy of enterprise networks in general. We propose an investment sharing model that makes use of Shapley values as indicators of relative negotiation power in a network. It turns out that a focal buyer (supplier) in a supply chain can...

Interorganizational Cost Management in Supply Chains: Practices and Payoffs

M A N A G E M E N T A C C O U N T I N G Q U A R T E R L Y S P R I N G 2 0 1 4 , V O L . 1 5 , N O . 3 I t is generally accepted that one of management’s primary roles is to optimize profits by controlling costs effectively. This includes costs associated with operating the day-today business, such as those related to labor, materials, and administrative functions, as well as more strategic cost...

Interorganizational Partnership, Switching Cost, and Strategic Flexibility in Supply Chain

Many studies work focusing on the interaction between the various dimensions of supply chain (SC) relationships (such as trust, commitment, satisfaction, investment, communication and collaboration) but far less on the impact of SC relationships on switching cost and strategic flexibility. The partnership interaction between the SC and the strategic flexibility is the most important factor when...

Strategic Approaches to Domination in Supply Chains

Strategic Safety Stock Placement In Supply Chains

We consider a multi-stage production/distribution supply chain subject to stochastic demand. We formulate an optimization problem to determine where to place decoupling inventories, so-called strategic inventories, across the supply chain so as to minimize inventory holding costs subject to a service constraint for satisfying customer demand. We assume demand is normally distributed. For each s...