Soon Hong Min

A management construct cannot be used effectively by practitioners and researchers if a common agreement on its definition is lacking. Such is the case with the term “supply chain management”—so many definitions are used that there is little consensus on what it means. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine the existing research in an effort to understand the concept of “supply chain management.” Various definitions of SCM and “supply chain” are reviewed, categorized, and synthesized. Def

Purpose Collaboration has been referred to as the driving force behind effective supply chain management and may be the ultimate core capability. However, there is a fairly widespread belief that few firms have truly capitalized on its potential. A study was undertaken to assess the current level of supply chain collaboration and identify best practice. Design/methodology/approach Supply chain executives provided insights into collaboration. Survey data, personal interviews, and a review of the

To investigate the construct of Supply Chain Management and its antecedent construct of a Supply Chain Orientation, reliable, valid scales of each are needed. In this study, we developed measurement scales for a supply chain orientation (SCO) and supply chain management (SCM). Validity and reliability of the developed scales were established and the relationship between a SCO, SCM, and business performance was also established, providing evidence of nomological validity. The implications of thes

The article titled “Defining Supply Chain Management” published in 2001 in the Journal of Business Logistics has been cited over 4,900 times in the last 17 years. In this paper, we first provide a historical review of how the article originated and the contributions the article made to both the theory and practice of supply chain management (SCM). Next, we highlight the key market and technological changes that have emerged in SCM followed by how the theory proposed in the 2001 article can still

Despite the growing importance of logistics in corporate strategy and the global economy, the logistics literature reveals little effort to build a unified theory of logistics (i.e. a theory of the role of logistics in the firm). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to move toward a unified theory of logistics within the contexts of the strategic role and capabilities of logistics. Considering the importance of logistics in today's corporate strategy, various theories of the firm are adapted to ex

The concept of supply chain management (SCM) started in the logistics literature, and logistics has continued to have a significant impact on the concept. This study, however, proposes that the concepts of the marketing concept, a market orientation, relationship marketing, and SCM are not separate. Rather they are inextricably intertwined. The main purpose of this study is to highlight the role of marketing in the implementation of SCM by suggesting cause‐and‐effect relationships. Research prop

Competition involves not firm against firm but rather supply chain against supply chain, but few studies explain theoretically the subsistence of a supply chain as a social entity or the operating mechanisms through which firms socialize to obtain better business performance. On the bases of social identity theory and social capital theory, the authors suggest that the salience of supply chain identity accumulates social capital in a supply chain, which then facilitates supply chain management a

A market orientation (MO) has long been an essential concept in the marketing discipline. Advanced information technologies show a great potential for information acquisition, sharing, and dissemination, all of which are the essential processes of an MO. This paper proposes a framework of an Internet-mediated market orientation (IMO), in which the Internet functions as a transformer of the traditional MO into a more efficient and effective way of implementing an MO online toward sustaining compe

최근 들어 현업 관리자들에게 지속가능성과 지속가능 경영은 일상 전문용어가 되었다. 그러나 두 용어는 개별 기업의 성공사례를 중심으로 대중 매체나 경영 컨설턴트들에 의해 소개되고 있는 실정이다. 지속가능성과 지속가능 경영 성공 사례를 경영자 및 일반 대중에게 활발히 소개하는 것은 두 용어의 대중화를 위해서는 바람직하나, 두 용어의 체계적, 전략적인 활용을 위해서는 바람직하지 않다. 기업들이 지속가능성과 지속가능 경영을 기업 전략의 일환으로 활용하기 위해서는 과학적 연구 방법을 통하여 두 개념을 정확하고 일관되게 정의하고, 두 개념 간의 인과 관계를 파악하여 일반화하는 과정이 필요하다. 그러나 현재 국내외 학술지에는 지속가능성과 지속가능 경영에 관한 이론을 제시한 논문이 부족하다. 한국로지스틱스 학회의 로지스틱스 연구를 살펴보면 1993년부터 2011년 사이에 수록된 지속가능 경영 관련 논문은 총 7편에 불과하며, 이들 논문들은 대부분 지속가능 경영의 일부분이라고 할 수 있는 녹색(친환

Purpose Employing means‐end theory, this paper seeks to examine the influence of specific types of product attributes upon desired consumption consequences and the mediating impact of desired consequences upon purchase frequency. Design/methodology/approach The research employed means‐end interviews to generate specific attribute and consequence measures. These measures were then administered in a survey instrument within the context of a fashion product. Partial least squares was used for testi

Existing studies of electronic service quality (e-SQ) mainly deal with online shopping mall operators in business-to-consumer (B2C) markets, whereas research into the e-SQ of sellers in industrial electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces), characterized by multiple sellers and multiple customers, is lacking. Therefore, this study intends to determine if existing theories developed and tested in the B2C online shopping mall context are directly applicable to measure e-SQ of industrial e-marketplac

기업 간 관계적 지배장치(relational governance mechanism)는 계약적 지배장치(contractual governance mechanism)와 다르게 비공식적이고 관계지향적인 지배양식이 기업 간 거래의 안전장치 역할을 하는 것으로써, 특히 신뢰가 대표적인 관계적 지배장치로 간주되어 왔다. 그러나 (1)신뢰의 소재지(한 기업 혹은 상호 관계), 기회주의적 행동에 대한 예측 정확도 및 통제의 효과성, 신뢰의 성격(파트너십의 선행 혹은 후행 변수)에 대한 다양한 견해가 존재하고, (2)높은 수준의 신뢰가 가져오는 순효과와 함께 역효과가 보고되고 있는 점을 고려하면 신뢰를 공급사슬 파트너십 전(全)과정을 관리하는데 항상 효과적인 관계적 지배장치로 간주하는 것은 논란의 여지가 있다. 이러한 신뢰의 효과성에 대한 합리적 의심을 바탕으로 본 연구는 신뢰를 보완할 수 있는 비공식 관계적 지배장치(informal relational governance mechanism)와 공식