Inter-firm collaborations and supply chain coordination: review of key elements and case study

Upstream supply chain visibility and complexity effect on focal company’s sustainable performance: Indian manufacturers’ perspective

“…Supply chain visibility has been noted as an important organizational capability (see Barratt and Oke, 2007; Juttner and Maklan, 2011;Brandon-Jones et al 2014). It may improve coordination between supply chain partners (Arshinder et al 2008;Carter and Rogers, 2008;Kannan et al 2014;Lehoux et al 2014;Maghsoudi and Pazirandeh, 2016;Akhavan and Beckmann, 2017), information sharing (Mabert and Venkataramanan, 1998) and performance, by reducing the negative consequences of distortions . Furthermore, supply chain visibility allows organizations to be more agile (Christopher, 2000) and creates strategic value (Wei and Wang, 2010).…”

Protocol: Systematic Literature Review on coordination mechanisms for the mathematical programming models in production planning with decentralized decision making

“…Los incentivos o mecanismos deben influir en las decisiones de los agentes independientes para evitar comportamientos oportunistas o aportes de informaciones falsas que no permitan el correcto reparto de los beneficios generados por la colaboración (Lehoux et al, 2014). Por lo tanto, deben desarrollar la confianza para construir la colaboración y que su mejoras locales en costes o en beneficios repercutan en una mejora global de la cadena de suministro.…”

An investigation into E-business service in the UK telecommunication manufacturing industry

“…Avlonitis and Karayanni 2000;Hill and Scudder, 2002;Devaraj et al, 2007;Rai et al, 2006). For example, cooperative and collaborative efforts (through a high level of information exchange enabled by Web technologies and portals for customers and suppliers) between supply chain partners have been suggested as critical to improved coordination of allocated resources and activities across the chain (Lee et al, 2000;Fynes et al, 2005;Rai et al, 2006;Lehoux et al, 2014).…”

“…Business collaboration is a long-term partnership where the parties work together, share information, resources and risks, and make joint decisions to accomplish mutual beneficial outcomes (Bowersox et al, 2003 andLehoux et al, 2014). Indeed, companies are increasingly developing collaborative relationships (van de Vijver et al, 2011).…”