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Competition and collaboration in supply chains: an agent-based modelling approach
thesis
posted on 2017-05-31, 08:01 authored by Niniet I. ArvitridaCompetition has been considered as an effective means to improve business and
economic competitiveness. However, competition in supply chain management
(SCM) can be viewed as a source of uncertainty. Most recommended collaboration
strategies in SCM literature tend to avoid the emergence of competition inside the
supply chain, but, in reality, these strategies do not lead all supply chains to success.
In addition, from strategic management perspective, these collaboration strategies
are not believed to encourage firms to improve their performance. Both competition
and collaboration are critical issues in achieving business success, but the effect of
both factors on the market has not been explored concurrently in the literature. The
complexity of this issue should be investigated using a comprehensive perspective,
and it is hard to undertake by using an empirical approach. [Continues.]
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Publisher
© Niniet Indah ArvitridaPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.Language
- en