Supply Chains, Markets and Power : Managing Buyer and Supplier Power Regimes

doi:10.4324/9780203299272

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ABSTRACT

Supply Chains, Markets and Power takes resource-based thinking forward by stressing the need for a dynamic and entrepreneurial conception of resource acquisition and management. This book will be essential reading for all those with a professional or academic interest in supply chain management.

Supply Chains, Markets and Power

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |1 pages

PART I Power in supply chains and markets

chapter 1|21 pages

Power, rents and critical assets

chapter 2|29 pages

The key attributes of buyer and supplier power

chapter 3|23 pages

Towards an analytical typology of supply chain power regimes

part |1 pages

PART II Power regimes in supply and value chains

chapter 4|23 pages

Site-speciﬁc convenience, branding and regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the forecourt retailing supply chain

chapter 5|22 pages

Regulation, site speciﬁcity and scale: the sources of asset criticality in the industrial sugar supply chain

chapter 6|21 pages

Site speciﬁcity and price stickiness under regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the industrial electricity supply chain

chapter 7|18 pages

Asset speciﬁcity, switching costs and limited competition: the sources of asset criticality in the aerospace fuel equipment supply chain

chapter 8|22 pages

Information asymmetry and ex post lock-in to branded and regulated asset speciﬁcity: the sources of asset criticality in the motor insurance supply chain

chapter 9|22 pages

Information asymmetry, innovation, scale and regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the new car supply chain

chapter 10|23 pages

Information asymmetry, moral hazard and branded reputation: the sources of asset criticality in IT systems integration supply and value chains

part |1 pages

PART III A research agenda for analysing business power

chapter 11|21 pages

Linking descriptive and analytical approaches to business thinking