Alliance Formation Motives: A Comparison of International Perspectives

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Frankel ◽  
Judith Schmitz Whipple
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Pacific Basin ◽  
Alliance Formation ◽  
Strategic Option ◽  
Supply Chain Relationships ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Potential Partner ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Managerial Implications

Establishing and maintaining successful alliances is an increasingly attractive, yet difficult strategic option for most firms in today's business environment. One component of the alliance process that has recently received considerable attention concerns the motivations of a firm and its potential partner to establish an alliance. This paper examines and compares alliance motives at three channel levels (manufacturer, distributor and logistical service supplier) and across three geographic trading regions (North America, Europe and the Pacific Basin). The managerial implications of the results are discussed with particular regard to developing and sustaining successful cooperative supply chain relationships.

Using a Supply Chain Improvement System (SCIS) to Increase Supply Chain Efficiency

2020 ◽  
pp. 1404-1424
Author(s):  
Herwig Winkler ◽  
Clemens Kuss
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Supply Chain Efficiency ◽  
Supply Chain Relationships ◽  
Vertical Range ◽  
Insight Into

Because of the reduced vertical range of manufacturing in recent decades, the complexity of supply chain relationships has increased dramatically. To address this complexity, and with the current pressure of competition in today's business environment, improving process efficiency has become an objective for companies and supply chains. Currently, there are no concepts available that enable evaluating and improving efficiency along entire supply chains. Based on this deficit, the authors developed the Supply Chain Improvement System (SCIS). This chapter will present the theoretical concept of the SCIS and provide the reader with two case studies that consider how to apply it in entrepreneurial practice. Beginning with offering some background information, current deficits in evaluating the efficiency of supply chains will be noted. Proceeding with the principles, the chapter will give a deeper insight into the structure of the concept.

scholarly journals A company’s relational strategy: Linkage between strategic choices, attributes, and outcomes

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0254531
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska ◽  
Dagmara Lewicka
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Organizational Relationships ◽  
Supply Chain Relationships ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Market Benefits

Nowadays, the idea of firms’ atomization is rejected and companies are perceived as entities embedded in inter-organizational relationships and their configurations, including dyads and networks. The relational view in strategic management thus prompts research on a firm’s relational strategy. This paper taps this gap considering links between strategic choices and attributes of a company’s inter-organizational relationships, as well as the outcomes achieved by collaboration with different groups of stakeholders. We test the model based on research carried out on a representative sample of 400 enterprises operating in Poland and on international markets. The results of structural equation modeling show that 1) the outcomes of collaboration reflect market benefits and are dependent on the durability of the inter-organizational relationships and the heterogeneity of the supply chain relationships, 2) durability as an attribute of the relational strategy depends on the choice of how to create and appropriate value, and 3) in turn, the attribute of heterogeneity of the relational strategy depends on what type of partners are selected. Thereby, we deliver managerial implications on how to create a relational strategy to achieve a relational rent and better a company’s market position.

scholarly journals Open Innovations in Supply Chain Relationships: Analysis of a Creative Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Maria Rosaria Marcone
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Processes ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Supply Chain Relationships ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Manufacturing Sectors ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

The work focuses on the development of innovative supply relationships that allow the use of openness innovations. At the same time, firms that want to implement these innovations must redesign their production processes. The research is based on an in-depth study of 10 business cases of medium-sized firms belonging to a clothing sub-sector, that of knitwear. The findings have important managerial implications considering that the innovative supply chain processes, in which a leading role is assumed by firms operating in the so-called traditional manufacturing sectors, generate an increase in flexibility of the entire supply chain.

Using a Supply Chain Improvement System (SCIS) to Increase Supply Chain Efficiency

2016 ◽  
pp. 437-456
Author(s):  
Herwig Winkler ◽  
Clemens Kuss
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Supply Chain Efficiency ◽  
Supply Chain Relationships ◽  
Vertical Range ◽  
Insight Into

Because of the reduced vertical range of manufacturing in recent decades, the complexity of supply chain relationships has increased dramatically. To address this complexity, and with the current pressure of competition in today's business environment, improving process efficiency has become an objective for companies and supply chains. Currently, there are no concepts available that enable evaluating and improving efficiency along entire supply chains. Based on this deficit, the authors developed the Supply Chain Improvement System (SCIS). This chapter will present the theoretical concept of the SCIS and provide the reader with two case studies that consider how to apply it in entrepreneurial practice. Beginning with offering some background information, current deficits in evaluating the efficiency of supply chains will be noted. Proceeding with the principles, the chapter will give a deeper insight into the structure of the concept.

Genetic and Morphological Diversity in Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the Pacific Basin

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
Ross H. Miller ◽  
Robert G. Foottit ◽  
Eric Maw ◽  
Keith S. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Aphis Gossypii ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Pacific Basin ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Aphis Gossypii Glover

Supplemental material: Cenozoic to Recent plate configurations in the Pacific Basin: Ridge subduction and slab window magmatism in western North America

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.K. Madsen ◽  
D.J. Thorkelson ◽  
R.M. Friedman ◽  
D.D. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pacific Basin ◽  
Western North America ◽  
File Size ◽  
Tectonic Model ◽  
Ridge Subduction ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Northwestern North America ◽  
Slab Window

Geosphere, February 2006, v. 2, p. 11-34, doi: 10.1130/GES00020.1. Movie 1 - Tectonic model for the Pacific Basin and northwestern North America from 53 Ma to 39 Ma. The file size is 1.3 MB.

An Investigation of Justice in supply chain relationships and their performance impact

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 236-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram Narasimhan ◽  
Sriram Narayanan ◽  
Ravi Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Performance Impact ◽  
Supply Chain Relationships
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