Putting supply chain learning into practice. (In special issue: What really matters in operations management)


Bessant, John, Kaplinsky, Raphael and Lamming, Richard (2003) Putting supply chain learning into practice. (In special issue: What really matters in operations management). International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 23, (2), 167-184. (doi:10.1108/01443570310458438).

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As firms struggle to cope with an increasingly turbulent and uncertain economic environment there is widespread recognition of the importance of organisational learning. One option is to look at the potential of shared learning between firms, where common interests and interdependence provide motivation for experience sharing and other forms of synergy in learning. A particular version of inter-firm learning is the use of supply chains as a mechanism for upgrading and transferring “appropriate practice” and this article reports on exploratory research on this theme. It draws on a literature survey and a detailed study of six UK supply chains at various stages of implementing supply chain learning.

Item Type: Article
ISSNs: 0144-3577 (print)
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Keywords: kaizen, organizational learning, supply chain
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions: University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Management
Item ID: 36185
Date Deposited: 22 May 2006
Last Modified: 02 Mar 2012 13:07
Contributors: Bessant, John (Author)
Kaplinsky, Raphael (Author)
Lamming, Richard (Author)
Date: February 2003
Status: Published
Contact Email Address: R.C.Lamming@soton.ac.uk
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/36185

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