Strategic networks—The organization of the future

Hinterhuber, Hans H.; Levin, B. M.

doi:10.1016/0024-6301(94)90189-9

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“…'vertical networks' (Hinterhuber and Levin 1994;Achrol & Kotler 1999;and Verwaal and Hesselmans 2004), and 'virtual networks' (Cravens et al 1996). Chen and Paulraj (2004), in discussing theories and constructs in supply chain management, highlight the dominance of the collaborative paradigm in the supply chain literature and the collaborative advantage that underpins supply chain networks.…”

Section: Supply Network In the Discipline Of Collaborative Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers

MacCarthy

Jayarathne

2011

Production Planning & Control

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Collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry are of major economic significance in many countries, particularly in developing economies. The sector has gone through substantial changes in the last decade with the abolition of trade barriers and the increasingly dominant position of major retailers and brand owners in supply networks. The sustainability of clothing supply networks is subject to increasing public scrutiny. In this work, the characteristics and operation of collaborative clothing supply networks have been analyzed. Two contrasting supply networks -one for a major leading brand retailer and one for a major supermarket retailer -are analyzed and compared from a sustainability perspective.The challenges in assessing economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainability at a network level are highlighted. The results show a minimum compliance culture in the supermarket supply network, whereas the leading brand retailer demonstrates a much higher level of proactive and positive sustainability practices and actions across the network. The study highlights the benefits of a strongly collaborative network in helping to facilitate and enhance a sustainability agenda. The implications of the study are discussed for retailers, manufacturers and policy makers, as well as for the governance of collaborative supply networks more generally.

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Section: Supply Network In the Discipline Of Collaborative Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers

MacCarthy

Jayarathne

2011

Production Planning & Control

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“…In this process towards flexibility internal economies of scale are replaced by a system in which external economies and economies of scope are predominant. This system is characterized by a progressive externalization of the production structure, giving rise to a production chain functioning as a networked enterprise (Hinterhuber and Levin 1994, Miles and Snow 1995, Castells 1996, Morgan 1997. For Castells (1996: 171), the network enterprise is a new organizational paradigm and he defines it as 'That specific form of enterprise whose system of means is constituted by the intersection of segments of autonomous systems of goals'.…”

Section: Network Economy and Network Enterprisementioning

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The territoriality of the network economy and urban networks: evidence from flanders

Cabus¹,

Vanhaverbeke

2006

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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As the network economy is continuing to develop, external economies are taking over internal economies and they are increasingly determining the entrepreneurial logic. To evaluate the territorial impact of this new logic a theoretical framework is developed based on a division of external economies between agglomeration economies that play a role in the economic functioning of urban areas and network economies that result from the networking among firms.The general picture of firms located in Flanders is one of intense networking within agglomerations, especially in their networking with suppliers, together with intense short and long distance relationships, where urban areas dominate the scene.A comparison between the urban networks introduced in spatial policy and the geography of firms' networks, which has been investigated in this paper as the outcome of a large scale questionnaire, reveals that the nature of the firms' networked territory can in fact not be translated in terms of urban networks but in terms of relationships between firms located in territories with dynamic industrial communities, and where cities, as a contextual place, play an important role.

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“…Efficiency is enhanced by a combination of both competition and cooperation inside the network, supported by high quality communication and regular inter actions among interdependent partners (see also Kamann 1993). Thorelli (1986) and Hak kansson (1987) emphasize in particular the long lasting structuring effects of a network , even though the firm's position in a network may change (this position is a market asset built up by investments in manpower, time and scarce financial means) (see also Hinterhuber and Levin 1994). Networks may also exhibit different forms: vertical , horizontal, diagonal and internal, depending on the firm's internal organisation and competence as well as on the external market conditions.…”

Section: Towards a Network Revolutionmentioning

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Scenarios on Opportunities and Impediments in the Asian Pacific Rim.

Nijkamp¹,

Vermond²

1994

SiRS, SRS

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The Asian Pacific region encompasses a set of different countries with different growth rates, socio-economic conditions and network infrastructures. The trade relationships between these countries are determined by the above mentioned heterogeneity.In recent years the container transport market has gained much importance in this region. The future of this transport system is dependent on various background factors: political, technological, network morphology and development potential.The paper aims to identify the driving forces of the maritime shipping network in the Asian Pacific Rim by focusing in particular on container transport. The great many uncertainties involved are depicted by means of scenario analysis, which are put in a cohesive framework on the basis of the so-called Spider approach.By using these scenarios as a frame of reference, a qualitative impact assessment is carried out in order to identify the consequences of each of these scenarios for the maritime container sector. By means of a strengthweakness analysis the various possible futures are scanned. Towards a Network RevolutionCities, regions and nations all over the world exhibit complex and turbulent movements induced by indigenous growth and spatial connectivity. In the past decades, structural change and differential dynamics have become a major feature of economies at all levels, where stability is substituted for transformation. After the era of the Industrial Revolution in the second part of the last century which was marked by new ways of organizing production and transport on the basis of new technological innovations favouring large-scale production, we observe in the second part of this century a new phase in the history of our developed world, viz, a Network Revolution marked by interconnected modes of production and transport on the basis of radical restructuring of logistic, informational and communicative processes favouring neo-Fordist types of production (see Lagendijk 1993).The changes we are observing nowadays have several important dimensions, each relating to and interacting with a number of others. Spatially, it implies reshaping the location of goods handling activities (and also the location of information-handling activities) between and within regions and nations. Sectorally, it incorporates both the growth of tertiary Various studies have been devoted to the seedbed conditions of new technologies, especially in relation to small and medium sized firms. In this context, different frameworks of analysis have attracted much attention, such as the spatial incubator hypothesis and the spatial product life-cycle model. In the same vein, also industrial dynamics has received much attention.It should be noted however, that in the Schumpeterian view entrepreneurial innovation is not an exogenous determinant of economic growth, but an endogenous force in a profit maximizing economy. Thus, the profit motive, which is crucial to survival in a competitive system, is the main driving force of adopting and generating i...

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Strategic networks—The organization of the future

Cited by 71 publications

References 4 publications

Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers

Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers

The territoriality of the network economy and urban networks: evidence from flanders

Scenarios on Opportunities and Impediments in the Asian Pacific Rim.

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