Rule-based modelling of dependencies among activities in collaborative partnership

Essabbar, Driss; Zolghadri, Marc; Zrikem, Maria; Ayadi, Abderrahman

doi:10.1504/jdr.2014.060933

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“…Therefore, power is based on the control of resources that are considered strategic within the organization [45]. The partners' dependency often leads to power imbalance and an advantage of one party that may limit the autonomy and constrain the behavior of the other party [37,46,47].…”

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An Analysis Framework of Power Imbalance in Supply Chains

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Zrikem,

Zolghadri

2024

Operations Management - Recent Advances and New Perspectives

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Is a huge multinational company always powerful, and is a small company always weak? What actually makes a company stronger than another one? These are two typical questions students, researchers and practitioners encounter when they study or practice management. Decision-makers in companies have to be able to account for power in their daily tasks because of the potential partners’ reactions to wrong decisions. Major papers studying power do agree that power and its direct consequence, i.e., decision imbalance, could have direct impacts on how soundly a supply chain operates. Even though power has been analyzed for a long time in various fields, to the best of our knowledge, there is a lack of scientific literature examining and modeling power imbalance and its consequences in supply chains. An important challenge regarding this issue is analyzing power in networks of partners. This chapter contributes to the development of a power analysis framework by presenting a set of concepts and properties to model and examine various aspects of power and the interactive process that leads to its use or does not. This framework will use data collected from a set of interviews conducted with main decision-makers to analyze a real case of four companies from the high-tech sector. The chapter does not address strategies or techniques to cope with power exertion but helps to elucidate the process of power evolution.

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“…. When there is inequality, the power model is referred to as a dominance model [47], power imbalance [36,67] or power asymmetry [68,69]. Power asymmetry pertains to the extent to which one firm possesses significantly more or significantly less power than another [69].…”

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An Analysis Framework of Power Imbalance in Supply Chains

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Zolghadri

2024

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“…(2) The availability of other ways to A to achieve its objectives (the ability of A to change B by another actor, let say C). Under the mutual dependency, it is more or less imperative for each party to be able to control or to influence the behavior of the others [22]. At the same time, these mutual dependencies imply that each party is able to grant or refuse, facilitate or prevent the satisfaction of the other.…”

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The effect of power and dependency on relationships between partners in supply chain

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Zrikem²,

Zolghadri³

et al. 2014

2014 International Conference on Logistics Operations Management

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Power and dependency are regarded as a fundammental issue in supply chains. However, only a few scientific works have studied these concepts in the context of supply chain management. An important challenge, therefore, is to find out what role power and dependence play and how they affect supply chain management. Therefore, the aim of our work is to examine various aspects of power and dependency in supply chain. By enhancing the managers' knowledge about power-dependency, the presented results help companies in their supply strategy development, tactical and operational decision-makings.

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