...Jan Holmström; Kary Främling; Jukka Tuomi; Mikko Kärkkäinen; Timo Ala‐Risku The promise of process integration between organizations too often is unfulfilled and new approaches are needed. Distributed control is a new and exciting opportunity to build more effective process networks for a wide...

...Helen Peck; Uta Jüttner The emergence of the network organization is a phenomenon that has given rise to much comment and analysis. These virtual organizations are characterized by a confederation of specialist skills or capabilities provided by the network members. It is argued that in turbulent...

... and discusses the need for a new paradigm for logistics research. It then introduces three different theoretical perspectives on supply chain management: the transaction cost approach; the network perspective; and, the resource‐based view. The three perspectives represent an economic, a sociological...

... multiple members of supply chains are used to illustrate the concepts described. © Douglas M. Lambert 1998 Networks Corporate strategy Purchasing Operations management Operation strategy Supply‐chain management Copyright by Douglas M. Lambert. All rights reserved. ...