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Heterogeneity in Supply Chain Management: An Efficiency Approach

Heterogeneity in Supply Chain Management: An Efficiency Approach

Aikaterini Kokkinou, Maria-Athina Artavani
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 7
ISBN13: 9781522524588|ISBN10: 1522524584|EISBN13: 9781522524595
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2458-8.ch033
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Kokkinou, Aikaterini, and Maria-Athina Artavani. "Heterogeneity in Supply Chain Management: An Efficiency Approach." Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development, edited by George M. Korres, et al., IGI Global, 2017, pp. 373-379. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2458-8.ch033

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Kokkinou, A. & Artavani, M. (2017). Heterogeneity in Supply Chain Management: An Efficiency Approach. In G. Korres, E. Kourliouros, & M. Michailidis (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development (pp. 373-379). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2458-8.ch033

Chicago

Kokkinou, Aikaterini, and Maria-Athina Artavani. "Heterogeneity in Supply Chain Management: An Efficiency Approach." In Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development, edited by George M. Korres, Elias Kourliouros, and Maria P. Michailidis, 373-379. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2458-8.ch033

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Abstract

Today's organizations struggle for efficiency and effectiveness. Strategies involving collaboration between actors and integration of activity chains are reliant of factors that firms do not have direct ownership and control over. This has implications for strategizing, setting the goals and measuring performance. Efficiency and effectiveness are often used to describe performance. From a resource dependence perspective efficiency is defined as an internal standard of performance and effectiveness as an external standard of fit to various demands. This chapter attempts through a literature survey to search the main pillars and the determinant factors for efficiency in supply chain management and to present the effects in the competitiveness and the efficient level for an economy.

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