Supply-Chain Research Opportunities with the Poor as Suppliers or Distributors in Developing Countries

Supply-Chain Research Opportunities with the Poor as Suppliers or Distributors in Developing Countries

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Article ID: iaor201524791
Volume: 23
Issue: 9
Start Page Number: 1483
End Page Number: 1494
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Journal: Production and Operations Management
Authors: ,
Keywords: research, developing countries, social
Abstract:

Many social enterprises and some companies have developed supply chains with the poor as suppliers or distributors to alleviate poverty and to create revenues for themselves. Such supply chains have created new research opportunities because they raise issues fundamentally different from those examined in the existing operations management literature. We report this phenomenon of supply chains with the poor as suppliers or distributors in developing countries and identify operations management (OM) research opportunities. We also provide some stylized models to serve as potential seeds for modeling‐based research in this area.

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