1st Edition
Supply Chain Behaviors at the Employee Level How Individuals Within the Supply Chain are Crucial for Adapting to Unexpected Changes
Chapter 1: Why is research on individual-level supply chain behaviors necessary?
1. Trends in previous research on supply chain management
2. The necessity of individual-level behavioral research in the field of SCM
References
Chapter 2: Proposing a conceptual model of individual-level supply chain behaviors
1. Literature review of SCI enablers
2. A multilevel framework of SCI
2.1 Cause-and-effect relationships at the organizational level
2.2 Individual-level behavioral variables
2.3 Outcomes of individual-level behavior
2.4 Factors influencing individual-level behavior
References
Chapter 3: Case studies on individual-level supply chain behaviors
1. The purposes of case studies
2. First case: Process innovation of demand forecasting at Kao Corporation
3. Second case: Product transfer from China to Thailand at Ricoh Company
3.1 From the decision to implement U.S. sanctions against China to Ricoh’s decision to transfer production to the Thailand factory
3.2 Until the preparations for the transfer began at the Thailand factory
3.3 Until the announcement that Ricoh’s products would be affected
3.4 Subsequent actions
3.5 Discussion
4. Implications
References
Chapter 4: Survey results on individual-level supply chain behaviors
1. Hypotheses development
2. Method
2.1 Data collection
2.2 Measure development
2.3 Measure assessment
3. Hypotheses tests results
4. Discussion
5. Implications
References
Chapter 5: Further insights using the followership theory
1. Why followership now?
2. Purpose followership
3. A follower of “Koto-Ba”
4. What is followership behavior?
References
Chapter 6: Followership behavior in supply chains
1. What is a supply chain?
2. Practical issues in the organizational supply chain
3. Case study: Ina Food Industry
4. Ina Food Industry visits
References
Chapter 7: Proposing a developmental model for individual-level supply chain behaviors
1. Specific images of followership behaviors
2. Followership behavior types
3. Three-dimensional model of followership behavior
4. Developmental model of supply chain behavior
References
Biography
Mikihisa Nakano was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, in 1967 and grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from Osaka University with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science. Prior to starting his academic career, he served as a researcher of the Mitsubishi Research Institute, which is a think-tank, for almost ten years. He also served as a marketing research staff of Fast Retailing with its main brand, UNIQLO, which is the third largest apparel company in the world. While working at these companies, he earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in business administration from Kobe University. At present, he serves as a professor at the Faculty of Business Administration of Kyoto Sangyo University. His research work has focused on supply chain management, especially the mechanisms of internal and external integration in supply chains and the impact on performance. He has published several international journal articles, including International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, International Journal of Production Economics, and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. He is the author of the supply chain textbook, Supply Chain Management: Strategy and Organization (Springer Nature). Kazuki Matsuyama was born and raised in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara. He graduated from Kyoto University with a bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology. After graduation, he spent eight years working in human resource management at Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, now Panasonic. He then went on to obtain a master’s degree in economics from Osaka Prefecture University Graduate School and a Ph.D. in economics from Kyoto University Graduate School. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at Doshisha University. His research interests include organizational behavior and strategic human resource management. Recently, he has focused on followership research. He is the author of numerous publications in these research areas. For example, “Belonging Consciousness of Japanese Workers,” “Strategic Human Resource Management,” “Followership for Next-Generation Organizations,” and “Followership Behavior: ‘Koto’ ‘Ba,’ and ‘Kotoba (words)’.
