A Coevolutionary Model as a Collaborative Mechanism for the Business Exchange in the High-technology Industrial Value Chain

The High-technology industries are highly capital-intensive enterprises dealing with short life cycle products, offering potential to simultaneously examine different perspectives of collaborative relationships. Although the extant literature on collaborative activities in business enterprises has progressed along the different stages in the industrial value chain, there is lack of cohesion in the current state of the art. Conceptual clarity and contextual description in particular are dispersed and disintegrated in the current state. In order to integrate the literature and highlight its contributions, it is essential to provide a more technical description and a discussion on supply chain collaboration from various perspectives of the High-technology industry. In this article, the issues pertaining to responsiveness, collaborative development practices, strategic procurement and information technology (IT), and control-oriented approaches are presented. By effectively doing so, we provide a comprehensive literature review to determine the scope for future research in the High-technology industries and other similar manufacturing environments.