Article ID: | iaor20113852 |
Volume: | 131 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 263 |
End Page Number: | 272 |
Publication Date: | May 2011 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Giannoccaro Ilaria |
Keywords: | simulation: applications |
Supply chain management advocates that the whole supply chain (SC) from the material suppliers to the end customers must be managed by adopting an integrated approach. However, different forms of governance can be adopted to pursue integration, ranging from the pure market to the hierarchy. While integration has been extensively investigated in the literature by adopting an operative perspective, the organizational perspective has been less used. However, the way the SC is organized influences the SC performance. This topic is investigated by using a recent tool offered by complexity science, namely the NK simulation model. In the proposed NK model,