...Corrado Cerruti; Carlos Mena; Heather Skipworth; Ernesto Tavoletti Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate high-involvement and short-term supply relationships, known as agile supply partnerships (ASPs), and explores the conditions that support the development of such inter...

... case studies Buyer‐seller relationships Supply chain management Partnership China In 2010, foreign direct investment in China rose to a record $105.7 billion, underscoring international confidence that rising incomes would boost demand in the world's fastest‐growing economy (Bloomberg...

... into a conceptual model of drivers of close supply chain collaboration. Sander de Leeuw can be contacted at: sleeuw@feweb.vu.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Partnership Supply chain management Channel relationships Over the last decades, co‐operation between entities in a supply...

... a robust model that will aid decision makers and agile virtual enterprise brokers form partnerships within these organizational structures. Research limitations/implications The paper introduces a conceptual model with an illustrative validating example. A practical application and reapplication...

... Supply chain management Risk management Partnership Performance measures Risk management is emerging as an important contributor to most fields of management decision and control (S Mallman, 1996 ; Giannakis et al., 2004). The nature and evolution of the contribution of risk...

... Supply chain management Partnership Performance levels Suppliers Customers Europe Conventional wisdom among practitioners holds that companies enjoy significant performance improvements through supply chain (SC) collaboration. Likewise, SC management textbooks are extolling the virtues of SC...

... and allude to future research. Any outsourcing example can be positioned on a spectrum ranging from out‐tasking to partnership. Out‐tasking connotes work being done outside the organization, but the organization retaining full control over the operation; precisely defining the task and how...