Supply Chain Management Competency and Firm Financial Success

Supply chain management (SCM) plays a major role in creating (or destroying) shareholder value by influencing the three major drivers of firm financial performance: revenue, operating costs, and working capital. Yet, the relationship between SCM competency and firm financial performance is not well‐established. Drawing on the resource‐based view of the firm, this study assesses this relationship using Delphi‐style opinion data from AMR Research’s Supply Chain Top 25 rankings to assess SCM competency and Altman’s (1968) Z‐score statistic as the measure of financial success. The study findings show that firms recognized by industry experts for SCM competency have significantly higher Z‐scores than their close competitors and industry averages.     

Toward Greater Validation of Supply Chain Management Theory and Concepts: The Roles of Research Replication and Meta‐Analysis

Although researchers have been working for over three decades to identify, construct, and test the critical concepts and theories that comprise the supply chain management (SCM) discipline, the field’s theoretical basis has yet to be thoroughly vetted through repetitive, rigorous study. Emerging theories in SCM offer great explanatory potential, but if they are to stand the tests of time, place, and reason, research findings must be accumulated and synthesized. For the field to prosper, we advocate the execution of multiple studies that replicate findings across contexts while simultaneously encompassing relevant theoretical extensions. Furthermore, as SCM research streams mature, scholars should then employ meta‐analytic techniques to gain consensus across studies, such that findings can be more confidently extolled to both academic and practitioner constituencies. In this article, we evaluate the progress of replication and meta‐analysis to date within the SCM field and provide some prospects for thematic research that could perpetuate accelerated validation.     

连锁零售企业人力资源管理困境探析——以浙江为例

近年来在我国沿海地区,连锁零售企业在快速发展的同时正遭遇越来越多的问题,其中最突出的问题存在于人力资源管理方面,如人力资源短缺与流失严重,人力成本增长过快等等。只有认真分析人力资源管理面临的问题并予以破解,连锁零售企业才可能克服发展的瓶颈,重新获得快速的增长。     

Corporate Venture Capital and Its Contribution to Intermediate Goods Firms in South Korea*

Set by government, corporate, financial and individual sources, venture capitalists in Korea have adapted themselves to the new and uncertain venture capital market through stand‐alone and syndicated investments. The present study raises questions about whether various financial sources contributed differentially to their portfolio firms during the market boom of 2000. Results show that no single capital source showed better performance, and only corporate venture capitalists contributed to intermediate goods firms. The latter finding might reflect the unique ability of corporate venture capitalists to use vertical value‐chain linkages for their investments.     

生产性服务业支撑制造业价值链升级的实证研究

在后危机时代,制造业应通过转型升级培育持续竞争力。制造业转型升级的重要内容之一是价值链升级。本文通过研究发现,生产性服务业与制造业价值链升级间的相关程度明显。在此基础上,以中国为样本,通过实证分析发现,当前对支撑中国制造业价值链升级贡献较大的生产性服务业是交通运输、仓储及邮政业和批发零售业这些传统服务行业,从而进一步指出,信息传输计算机服务业、金融业和科学研究技术服务业等现代服务业,应是将来发挥支撑制造业价值链升级作用的重点行业。     

非对称信息下供应链回购策略的研究

为了解决供应链中下游零售商的成本和需求预测信息是私有信息的情况下,上游供应商的回购决策问题,运用委托-代理模型研究了供应商的最优回购策略,得到了供应商的最优决策方案。利用最小承诺驱使零售商传递真实的需求预测信息,并证明零售商总是传递真实的成本信息。在此基础上进行公式的推导,并进行数值分析与模型验证,得出最终结论。     

金融危机冲击下中小企业供应链管理问题及对策研究

金融危机的冲击导致中小企业大量关闭、停产已成为制约我国中小企业生存与发展的来得障碍,更重要的是导致了民生、就业、稳定等社会问题。中小企业供应链的脆弱性是造成上述问题的一个重要原因,文章从分析中小企业供应链特征的基础上,分析金融危机冲击对其供应链的影响,针对各项影响因素提出了强化中小企业供应链的对策。     

面向订单生产对企业资源规划的挑战

本文是一项由24位中国企业资源规划资深顾问参与的研究,主要研究目标是发现中国制造业中面向订单生产的管理趋势及其对ERP的挑战。本文首先提出了研究的8个研究步骤,由专家提出面向订单生产业务的管理趋势,并根据专家投票得到其中的10个主要趋势,接着研究了这些主要趋势的业务管理难度和ERP对其支持程度,最后分析了目前ERP支持面向订单生产业务的不足。研究结果表明,在面向订单生产环境下,企业需要更高的供应链管理水平,并且需要改进的生产计划与控制方法。研究结果还表明目前应用于制造业的ERP软件在支持面向订单生产的发展趋势方面表现出较多的不足之处,阻碍了管理目标的实现。     

A Natural Resource Scarcity Typology: Theoretical Foundations and Strategic Implications for Supply Chain Management

World population growth and increased consumption stemming from economic leveling are leading to scarcity of a number of natural resources on a global scale. Scarcity of critical natural resources such as oil, water, food, and precious metals has the potential to greatly impact commercial activity as the twenty‐first century progresses. The challenge of continuing to provide needed goods and services in the face of these constraints falls to supply chain managers, who are ultimately responsible for delivering utility to customers. Unfortunately, there has been almost no research focused on supply chain strategies aimed at mitigating natural resource scarcity’s (NRS) potential effects. The current research positions NRS as a supply chain risk and proposes an NRS typology based on key resource attributes. Supply chain mitigation strategies to counter each resource status are offered, with an overall objective of improving supply chain performance. The study recommends future research aimed at further developing theory and methods for countering NRS based on resource, systems and behavioral theories. In addition, this study has critical implications for practitioners faced with the growing threat of NRS in their supply chains.     

江苏连锁商业的SCP模式分析与研究

在激烈的市场竞争中,连锁商业企业如何适应市场变化,调整市场行为,提高市场绩效,谋求稳健发展已成为目前急需解决的重要问题。文章借鉴SCP模式,以江苏连锁商业为研究背景,从市场绩效、市场结构、市场行为三个方面分析了江苏连锁商业存在的主要问题,特别是与外资连锁企业之间存在的差距问题。最后,从政府政策层面和企业层面两个方面提出了发展江苏连锁商业的对策和建议。