...Claudia Macaveiu Purpose The need for partnerships has been widely recognised by scholars and practitioners as a step forward to address modern slavery ( MS ) risks across business operations and supply chains but the rationale for engagement remains underexplored when businesses are involved...

... Supply chain management Construction industry Knowledge management Partnership Productivity management Construction companies need to improve their supply chain (SC) collaboration (Meng, 2012). To achieve this, it is particularly important to understand the complexity of the relationships...

... publications on customs and business cooperation schemes relate predominantly to their corresponding legal aspects or contain only theoretical considerations on the establishment and functioning of programs such as the AEO or the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) (Dallimore and Wolffgang...

...N. Nurmala; Sander de Leeuw; Wout Dullaert Purpose The aim of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review to understand the state of the art of partnerships between humanitarian organizations and business corporations in managing humanitarian logistics. Design/methodology/approach...

... conducted to address how well the body of knowledge on supply chain collaboration corresponds with our contemporary society. Relationships Collaboration Partnership The increasing number of organisations accessing new markets to seek higher efficiencies in sourcing and production has heightened...

... approach to improving this situation, which is the subject of intense discussion by both scientists and practitioners, is the establishment of strategic partnerships integrated with the scientific observation of the processes involved. This paper aims to present a case study of such a strategic alliance...

... Partnership Procurement Supply chain management Many authors highlight the importance of improved construction supply chain performance in order to enhance the actors' achievement of both short‐term business objectives and long‐term competitive advantage (Egan, 1998 ; Dubois and Gadde, 2000...

...Dong‐Young Kim; Vinod Kumar; Uma Kumar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for assessing the comprehensive performance of supply chain partnership (SCP). Design/methodology/approach Using the literature review approach, the paper proposes a framework to assess...

... varies depending on the partnership's stage of development. The paper argues that the different bodies of literature each emphasize a different concern. Consequently, the multidisciplinary approach developed has a temporal nature and the three mentioned bodies of literature fit in different stages...

... collaborative partnerships to steel mills and automakers. Global sourcing is mainly done to reduce production costs, and it has been often adopted in parallel with concentrated purchasing and platform unification among strategically allied companies and regional divisions worldwide. Fiat's “Project 178...

... at: b.a.wagner@stir.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Supply chain management Partnership Distribution channels and markets Since the early 1990s, companies across a wide variety of industries have become increasingly interested in exploring the opportunities for competitive...

... obvious information that must be communicated includes: design data, order quantity, order due dates, prices, payment terms, and notification of any problems that arise. However, one reason for establishing a partnership is to get feedback on your requests. Are there slight design changes that would...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Supply chain management Construction industry Partnership Project management The general debate about supply chain management and best practice has also impacted on the academic and practitioner literature within the UK construction industry...

...Bartolomé Marco Lajara; Francisco García Lillo The present paper analyses how small Spanish manufacturing firms develop supplier partnerships with the aim of improving their competitiveness. More precisely, the study tries to find out, on the one hand, the causes for the creation of alliances...