Supply chains, markets and power : mapping buyer and supplier power regimes /

"Supply Chains, Markets and Power will be essential reading for all those with a professional or academic interest in supply chain management."--Jacket

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Elizabeth Kelsey Memorial Fund
Other Authors: Cox, Andrew W
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002
London ; New York : 2002
Series:Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 18
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Power and the Janus-faced corporation
  • Part I. Power in supply chains and markets
  • 1. Power, rents and critical assets
  • 2. The key attributes of buyer and supplier power
  • 3. Towards an analytical typology of supply chain power regimes
  • Part II. Power regimes in supply and value chains
  • 4. Site-specific convenience, branding and regulation: The sources of asset criticality in the forecourt retailing supply chain
  • 5. Regulation, site specificity and scale: The sources of asset criticality in the industrial sugar supply chain
  • 6. Site specificity and price stickiness under regulation: The sources of asset criticality in the industrial electricity supply chain
  • 7. Asset specificity, switching costs and limited competition: The sources of asset criticality in the aerospace fuel equipment supply chain
  • 8. Information asymmetry and ex post lock-in to branded and regulated asset specificity: The sources of asset criticality in the motor insurance supply chain
  • 9. Information asymmetry, innovation, scale and regulation: The sources of asset criticality in the new car supply chain
  • 10. Information asymmetry, moral hazard and branded reputation: The sources of asset criticality in IT systems integration supply and value chains
  • Part III. A research agenda for analysing business power
  • 11. Linking descriptive and analytical approaches to business thinking
  • Preface: power and the Janus-faced corporation
  • Pt. I Power in supply chains and markets
  • 1. Power, rents and critical assets
  • 2. The key attributes of buyer and supplier power
  • 3. Towards an analytical typology of supply chain power regimes
  • Pt. II. Power regimes in supply and value chains
  • 4. Site-specific convenience, branding and regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the forecourt retailing supply chain
  • 5. Regulation, site specificity and scale: the sources of asset criticality in the industrial sugar supply chain
  • 6. Site specificity and price stickiness under regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the industrial electricity supply chain
  • 7. Asset specificity, switching costs and limited competition: the sources of asset criticality in the aerospace fuel equipment supply chain
  • 8. Information asymmetry and ex post lock-in to branded and regulated asset specificity: the sources of asset criticality in the motor insurance supply chain
  • 9. Information asymmetry, innovation, scale and regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the new car supply chain
  • 10. Information asymmetry, moral hazard and branded reputation: the sources of asset criticality in IT systems integration supply and value chains
  • Pt. III. A research agenda for analysing business power
  • 11. Linking descriptive and analytical approaches to business thinking.