Supply Chain Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Strategic Supply Chain Management

   By Carlos Cordón, Kim Sundtoft Hald, Ralf W. Seifert

   The supply chain is at the heart of every successful business organization's decision-making process. This textbook explains how to create a winning supply chain management strategy by spotlighting how senior executives in European and US companies have turned their supply chains into strategic...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise

   Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models

   By Benjamin Huybrechts

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Labor Standards

   Firms and Activists in the Making of Private Regulation

   By Luc Fransen

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   How effective are multinational companies at improving working conditions in their supply chains? This book focuses on a crucial dynamic in private efforts at regulating labor standards in international production chains. It addresses questions regarding the quality of rules (Are existing efforts...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Tourism Supply Chain Management

   By Haiyan Song

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers as...

   Published November 13th 2011 by Routledge
5. Supply Chain Management and Transport Logistics

   By John Liu

   The enterprise-focused framework of supply chain, which an overwhelming majority of books on supply chain management (SCM) have adopted, falls short in explaining recent developments in the real world, especially the so-called Wal-Mart model, in which a 'factory' is a virtual logistics network of...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
6. Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development

   Contrasting Theories and Realities

   Edited by A.H.J. Helmsing, Sietze Vellema

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive...

   Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
7. X-SCM

   The New Science of X-treme Supply Chain Management

   By Lisa H Harrington, Sandor Boyson, Thomas Corsi

   Supply chain management today has never been more complex, more dynamic or more unpredictable. The good news is that new techniques for analyzing country-level investments, network configuration and in-sourcing/out-sourcing decisions can enable more precise and effective span of control. The...

   Published September 20th 2010 by Routledge
8. Procuring Complex Performance

   Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management

   Edited by Nigel Caldwell, Mickey Howard

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence. It brings together a series of edited chapters to explain why the...

   Published August 11th 2010 by Routledge
9. Defence Procurement and Industry Policy

   A small country perspective

   Edited by Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall, Robert Wylie

   Series: Routledge Studies in Defence and Peace Economics

   Arms purchases are among the most expensive, technologically challenging and politically controversial decisions made by modern-day governments. Superpower spending on weapons systems is widely analysed and discussed. But defence procurement in smaller industrial countries involves different issues...

   Published July 2nd 2009 by Routledge
10. Global Supply Chain Management and International Logistics

    By Alan E. Branch

    The development of international trade is driven by international logistics and management and the provision of the global supply chain. The ultimate objective of global supply chain management is to link the market place, distribution network, manufacturing/processing/assembly process, and...

    Published December 18th 2008 by Routledge