A Patent-Based Tool to Support Component Suppliers Assessment in the Smartphone Supply Chain

Cammarano, Antonello; Varriale, Vincenzo; Michelino, Francesca; Caputo, Mauro

doi:10.1109/tem.2021.3130656

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“…In the literature, there are several articles discussing key technologies without referring to a specific business function but within general areas, such as SCM [65], [66] or Industry 4.0 [3], [67]. Some of these articles focus on specific processes, such as the use of key technologies in product design [68] or R&D projects [69], [70], [71]. However, this work aims to investigate all the different business functions and not focus only on some specific areas.…”

Section: Business Context: Business Function and Business Processmentioning

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A Framework for Investigating the Adoption of Key Technologies: Presentation of the Methodology and Explorative Analysis of Emerging Practices

Cammarano

Varriale

Michelino

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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In this article, we present a framework for performing a systematic literature review on the implementation of emerging business practices and the adoption of these key technologies: three-dimensional printing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, computing, digital applications, geospatial technologies, immersive environments, Internet of things, open and crowd-based platforms, proximity technologies, and robotics. Through the content analysis of the full text of scientific papers, emerging practices are captured and then classified within a group of standardized labels. This allows to summarize an emerging practice as the use of a key technology within a business context-represented by industry, business function, and business process adopting the technology-with the aim of achieving improvements in terms of business performance. The adoption of this methodology allows the recognition of the opportunities for companies of enhancing performance through key technologies. With this study, the framework is tested by classifying more than 22 000 scientific articles and extracting 15 708 emerging practices. The explicative power of data collected is demonstrated by performing an explorative analysis aiming at illustrating the state-of-the-art of emerging practices. Moreover, by employing association rules algorithms, 262 practices are found as the most frequent and relevant and are the candidate for becoming future best practices.

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Section: Business Context: Business Function and Business Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework for Investigating the Adoption of Key Technologies: Presentation of the Methodology and Explorative Analysis of Emerging Practices

Cammarano

Varriale

Michelino

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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“…From the first perspective, a large group of scientific papers is focused on theoretical and conceptual research aimed at highlighting the role of digitalization within SCs. These papers suggest changes in the relationship among SC partners, as well as the need for an internal process reengineering, along with changes in the management and governance of each SC actor (Agnihotri et al ., 2022; Cammarano et al ., 2021; Yang and Lirn, 2017). Studies have focused on concepts such as smart SC, automation, integration and interconnection (Felstead, 2019; Szalavetz, 2019).…”

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Embracing supply chain digitalization and unphysicalization to enhance supply chain performance: a conceptual framework

Perano

Cammarano

Varriale

et al. 2023

IJPDLM

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PurposeThe paper presents a research methodology that could be used to carry out a systematic literature review on the current state of the art of the technological development in the field of the digitalization and unphysicalization of supply chains (SCs). A three-dimensional conceptual framework focusing on the relationship between Digital Technologies (DTs), business processes and SC performance is presented. The study identifies the emerging practices and areas of SC management that could be positively affected by the implementation of DTs. With this in mind, the emerging practices have a high probability to be considered future best practices.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review was conducted on DTs in SC management. The methodology used aims to algorithmically and objectively standardize the information incorporated into thousands of scientific documents. Selected papers were analyzed to investigate the recent literature on SC digitalization and unphysicalization. A total of 87 DTs were selected to be analyzed and subsequently grouped into 11 macro-categories. 17 business processes linked to SC management are taken into account and 17 different impacts on SC management are presented. From a set of 1,585 papers, 5,060 emerging practices were collected and singularly summarized combining DT, business process and impact on SC performance.FindingsA unique analytical perspective provided represents an important evolution when trying to organize the current literature on SC management. The widely used DTs in the practices and the most considered business processes and impacts are highlighted and described. The three-dimensional conceptual framework is graphically represented to allow for the emergence of the best combinations of DT, business process and impact on SC performance. These combinations suggest the most promising areas for the implementation of the emerging practices for SC digitalization and unphysicalization. Additional findings identify and define the most important contexts in which Big Data contributes to SC performance.Originality/valueThe research methodology used is offering progress through which to systemize the current practices as well as detect the potential of digitalization and unphysicalization under the three-dimensional conceptual framework. The paper provides a structured proposal for promising future research directions, assuming that the five research gaps as findings of this research could be the basis for prescriptions, as well as a future research agenda and theory development. Moreover, this research contributes to current managerial issues concerning SC management, referred to data and information management, efficiency and productivity of SC processes, market performance, SC relationship management and risk management in SC.

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Construction and Application of Patent Technical Element Dependency Network

Qiu

Wang

2024

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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A Patent-Based Tool to Support Component Suppliers Assessment in the Smartphone Supply Chain

Cited by 5 publications

References 122 publications

A Framework for Investigating the Adoption of Key Technologies: Presentation of the Methodology and Explorative Analysis of Emerging Practices

A Framework for Investigating the Adoption of Key Technologies: Presentation of the Methodology and Explorative Analysis of Emerging Practices

Embracing supply chain digitalization and unphysicalization to enhance supply chain performance: a conceptual framework

Construction and Application of Patent Technical Element Dependency Network

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