文档介绍：A research agenda for Introduction
As a way of concluding this special edition of
supply chain and the journal it is perhaps appropriate to draw
business management together some of the conclusions that flow
from the research that has been reported here.
thinking This is achieved in two ways. First, a
summary of the issues raised and what they
Andrew Cox mean for the future research agenda at the
Centre for Business Strategy and Procure-
ment is presented. This is followed by a more
general discussion of the issues raised for
supply chain management thinking in parti-
cular, and for business management thinking
as a whole.
The author
Andrew Cox is Professor of Business Strategy and The future research agenda at the CBSP
Procurement at Birmingham Business School, University
of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. The four papers presented in this volume
reveal a number of important conclusions
about the ability panies to appropriate
Keywords
value for themselves from their participation
Supply chain, Business strategy, Management philosophy, in supply chains. First, each case demon-
Purchasing strates that the physical structures of supply
chains are very different. Each case demon-
Abstract strates relatively more or less degrees of
Summarises the key learning points in supply and plexity, with a variety of stages and with a
chain mapping. It d