Supply chain management has increasingly been recognized as a key driver of overall operational and financial performance. In this study we focus on supplier relations in financial services processes and empirically examine the relationship between supplier relations and supply chain performance using a unique database with a sample of 108 financial services processes. Our results show that, af...

Supply chain management has increasingly been recognized as a key driver of overall operational and financial performance. However, empirical studies in this area have been conducted primarily in manufacturing and/or at the SBU or firm level. It is unclear whether the results of these studies generalize to services and/or intra-firm processes. Thus, in this study we focus specifically on suppli...

With globalize market, fast-changing technology and shortening product life cycle, businesses are becoming extremely competitive, and a cooperative buyer–supplier relationship is essential for a manufacturer, especially in technology-related industry, to survive and to acquire reasonable profit. Even though the research on various types of collaborations between firms is abundant, the research ...

This paper proposes that transactional governance and knowledge governance are intertwined in the determination of firm green supply chain management relationships. We try to identify the key mechanisms and co-evolutionary consequences of transactional governance and knowledge governance in green supply chain management. Applying on the supplier and customer relationship context, our primary fo...

The research questions addressed in this study are: (a) to what extent do quality practices impact upon the various dimensions of quality performance and in turn, business performance? (b) to what extent is the relationship between quality practices and quality performance contingent upon the nature of buyer-supplier relationships? We undertook comprehensive reviews of the literature in the dom...

suitable supplier selection is the most important factor in supplier chain management; so that correct decisions in this phase, caused to reduce costs, make permanent relationship with suppliers and strong competitive strategy in market. in this paper, by reviewing the past articles, important related criteria found and then weighting of criteria and evaluation of alternatives were done with fu...

این پژوهش با الهام گرفتن از نتایج یک طرح مطالعاتی کاربردی، رویکرد سلسله­‌مراتبی جهت پیگیری فرایند توسعه تأمین‌کنندگان و حمایت تصمیمات موجود در هر مراحل آن ارائه‌ می‌کند. ابتدا، زمینه‌های تأمین نیازمند سپس واجد شرایط هریک زمینه‌ها به کمک تصمیم‌گیری چندشاخصه بهترین-بدترین مشخص می‌گردند. معیارهای شناسایی نیز مرور مطالعات پیشین بهره‌گیری نظرات خبرگان حوزه‌ی خرید استخراج‌شده‌اند. درنهایت، مدل ریاضی ...