Can the SME survive the supply chain challenges?

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-31

  Vaaland, Terje I ^a   Heide, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Business planning; Distribution management; Electronic commerce; Norway; Production planning and control; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846434145     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540710724374     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Arend, R.J. and Wisner, J.D. (2005), "Small business and supply chain management: is there a fit?", Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 403-36.
2. Bask, A.H. and Juga, J. (2001), "Semi-integrated supply chain: towards the new era of supply chain management", International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 137-52.
3. Bowersox, D.J., Closs, D.J. and Stank, T.P. (1999), 21st Century Logistics: Making Supply Chain Integration a Reality, Council of Logistics Management, Oakwood, IL.
4. Bromberger, S. and Hoover, S. (2003), "Supply chain challenges: building relationships", Harvard Business Review, July, pp. 64-73.
5. Christopher, M. (1998), Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Pitman, London.
6. Cooper, M.C., Lambert, D.M. and Pagh, J.D. (1997), "Supply chain management: more than a new name for logistics", International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 1-14.
7. Cox, A. (1996), "Relational competence and strategic procurement management. Towards an entrepreneurial and contractual theory of the firm", European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 57-70.
8. Cox, A. (1999), "Power, value and supply chain management", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 167-75.
9. Cox, A. (2004), "The art of the possible: relationship management in power regimes and supply chains", Supply Chain Management: An international Journal, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 346-56.
10. Cox, A. and Lamming, R. (1997), "Managing supply in the firm of the future", European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 53-62.
11. Cox, A., Watson, G., Lonsdale, C. and Sanderson, J. (2004), "Managing appropriately in power regimes: relationship and performance management in 12 supply chain cases", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 357-71.
12. Drew, S. (2003), "Strategic uses of e-commerce by SMEs in the east of England", European Management Journal, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 79-88.
13. Grandon, E.E. and Pearson, J.M. (2004), "Electronic commerce adoption: an empirical study of small and medium US businesses", Information & Management, Vol. 42, pp. 197-216.
14. Lambert, D.J., Cooper, M.C. and Pagh, J.D. (1998), "Supply chain management, implementation issues and research opportunities", International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 1-19.
15. Persson, G. (2002), "Supply chain management, a multidisciplinary study of integrated supply chains", in Persson, G. and Grønland, S.E. (Eds), Research Report No. 9/2002, Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo.
16. Quayle, M. (2003), "A study of supply chain management practice in UK industrial SMEs", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 79-86.
17. Skjoett-Larsen, T. (2000), "European logistics beyond 2000", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 30 No. 5, pp. 377-87.
18. Smyth, M. and Ibbotson, P. (2001), "Internet connectivity in Ireland: a joint report by the Bank of Ireland and the University of Ulster", available at: www.bbankofireland/whatsnew/item.php?whatsnewid=8.
19. Tiessen, J.H., Wright, R.W. and Turner, I. (2001), "A model of e-commerce use by internationalizing SMEs", Journal of International Management, Vol. 7, pp. 211-33.
20. Wagner, B.A., Fillis, I. and Johansson, U. (2003), "E-business and e-supply in small and medium sized businesses", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 343-54.
21. Zografos, K.G. and Giannouli, I.M. (2001), "Development and application of a methodological framework for assessing supply chain management trends", International Journal of Logistics, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 153-90.
22. Cross, G.J. (2000), "How e-business is transforming supply chain management", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 36-43.
23. Dubois, A. (1998), Organising Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries, Routledge, London.
24. Handfield, R.B. and Nichols, E.L. Jr (1999), Introduction to Supply Chain Management, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
25. Hkansson, H. and Snehota, I. (1995), Developing Business Relationships in Business Networks, Routledge, London.
26. PricewaterhouseCoopers (1998), Information and Technology in the Supply Chain - Making Technology Pay, Euromoney Publications, London.