Managing global supply chain relationships [electronic resource] : operations, strategies and practices / Barbara Flynn, Michiya Morita and Jose Machuca, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.Description: electronic texts (351 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781616928643 (ebook)
- Business logistics
- Production management
- Industrial management
- Angles of integration and information integration
- Collaborative buyer-seller relationships
- Intelligent and demand driven manufacturing networks
- Internal supply chain integration
- Managing long-term partnerships
- Network marketing strategy
- Offshoring implementation and management
- Outsourcing of new product development
- Power and opportunism in supply chain
- Supplier integration
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- HD38.5 .M3614 2011eb
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references.
1. Preparing for the worst / Rob Handfield -- 2. Supplier integration in the Chinese automotive industry / Martin Lockstr�om, Norma Harrison, Roger Moser, Manoj Malhotra, Joachim Schadel -- 3. Control model for intelligent and demand-driven supply chains / Jan Strandhagen, Heidi Dreyer, Anita Romsdal -- 4. Investment in transaction-specific assets and opportunistic behavior in a chinese supply chain / Xiande Zhao ... [et al.] -- 5. Challenges and opportunities in global supply chain integration / Mary Holcomb -- 6. Integration in global supply chains / Shawnee Vickery, Cornelia Droge -- 7. Internal supply chain integration / Virpi Turkulainen -- 8. Developing angles of integration / J�orn-Henrik Thun -- 9. Effect of customer power on supply chain integration and performance / Xiande Zhao ... [et al.] -- 10. Offshoring process / Dmitrij Slepniov, Brian Waehrens, Hiroshi Katayama -- 11. Impact of strategic outsourcing on operational control / Rob Dekkers -- 12. A multi-agent approach to allocate orders to distribution centres in a highly dynamic environment / Paolo Renna -- 13. Proposed framework for research in the triple A (agility, adaptability, alignment) in supply chains / Ivan Arana-Solares, Jose Machuca, Rafaela Alfalla-Luque -- 14. Network marketing and supply chain management for effective operations management / Raj Selladurai -- 15. Collaborative relationship in a global supply network / Adriane de Queiroz ... [et al.].
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"This book focuses on issues related to relationships among members of global supply chains, addressesing three important aspects of global supply chain relationships: supply chain integration and collaboration; outsourcing and offshoring of production; and recent growth in supplier networks"--Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed Dec. 7, 2010).