The perspective of suppliers on lean supply in a developing country context

Abstract

This paper deals with the perspective of autoparts suppliers in the Brazilian automotive industry on advances and barriers to renewed buyer-supplier relations under lean production practices, as uncovered by a comprehensive case study research. Suppliers perceived advances in the relationships as far as operational issues were concerned, but less so in terms of strategic issues. They also identified both organizational, firm-specific barriers and environmental barriers originating in the peculiarities of the local economic and business environment. These results are discussed in view of the dyadic relationship with buyers, leading to the identification of elements that help to formulate an explanation for the recent path of buyer-supplier relations in the Brazilian automotive industry.

Inter-organizational cooperation in buyer–supplier relationships: Both perspectives

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Manufatura Enxuta: uma revisão que classifica e analisa os trabalhos apontando perspectivas de pesquisas futuras

“…E concluem que a maioria dos aspectos do fornecimento enxuto é aplicável, excluindo-se algumas características que devem ser adaptadas a esse tipo de instituição. Arkader (2001) também trabalha com fornecimento enxuto, apresentando as perspectivas atuais dos fornecedores na indústria automobilística brasileira. Macduffie & Helper (1997) mostram exemplos práticos da difusão de princípios enxutos na cadeia de suprimentos de uma grande empresa automobilística.…”

“…• Vários autores focalizam a ME dentro de contextos especí-ficos de certos países, como, por exemplo, China (Dong, 1995), Japão (Katayama & Bennett, 1996, Austrália (Sohal, 1996), Brasil (Arkader, 2001), Inglaterra (Dennis & Robinson, 2000), Índia (Gulyani, 2001) e Finlândia (Kosonen & Buhanist, 1994. Comparações entre os estudos em diferentes países podem ser realizados.…”

Exploring the Moderating Role of Lean Production on Supplier Performance: An Empirical Study of Turkish Automotive Part Suppliers

“…Li et al, 2005;Shah and Ward, 2007;Olhager and Prajogo, 2012;Bortolotti et al, 2013), only a small number of empirical studies acknowledge or consider the conjoint positive effect. These studies include those by Arkader (2001), Simpson and Power (2005), Jayaram et al, (2008) and Moyano-Fuentes et al, (2012). However, they are limited in a number of ways including very small sample sizes (e.g.…”

“…However, they are limited in a number of ways including very small sample sizes (e.g. Arkader, 2001) and consideration of only two of the factors. Moreover, within contemporary literature from the fields of supplier integration (e.g.…”