Heterogeneity in Supply Chain Management: An Efficiency Approach

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Author(s): Aikaterini Kokkinou (Hellenic Military Academy, Greece)and Maria-Athina Artavani (Hellenic Military Academy, Greece)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 7
Source title: Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): George M. Korres (University of Aegean, Greece), Elias Kourliouros (University of Aegean, Greece)and Maria P. Michailidis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2458-8.ch033

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Economics & Economic Theory / Economics and Economic Theory

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Today's organizations struggle for efficiency and effectiveness. Strategies involving collaboration between actors and integration of activity chains are reliant of factors that firms do not have direct ownership and control over. This has implications for strategizing, setting the goals and measuring performance. Efficiency and effectiveness are often used to describe performance. From a resource dependence perspective efficiency is defined as an internal standard of performance and effectiveness as an external standard of fit to various demands. This chapter attempts through a literature survey to search the main pillars and the determinant factors for efficiency in supply chain management and to present the effects in the competitiveness and the efficient level for an economy.

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