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- First book to apply a Network Economics perspective to Supply Chain Quality Competition
- Nagurney is one of the most respected researchers in the area
- Many real life examples throughout
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management (SSSCM, volume 2)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Quality and Supply Chains
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Information Asymmetry in Quality
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Quality in Product Differntiation and Outsourcing
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Supplier Quality and Freight Service Quality
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume provides an overview of the fundamental methodologies utilized in this book, including optimization theory, game theory, variational inequality theory, and projected dynamical systems theory. It then focuses on major issues in today's supply chains with respect to quality, beginning with information asymmetry, followed by product differentiation and branding, the outsourcing of production, from components to final products, to quality in freight service provision. The book is filled with numerous real-life examples in order to emphasize the generality and pragmatism of the models and tools. The novelty of the framework lies in a network economics perspective through which the authors identify the underlying network structure of the various supply chains, coupled with the behavior of the decision-makers, ranging from suppliers and manufacturers to freight service providers. What is meant by quality is rigorously defined and quantified. The authors explore the underlying dynamics associated with the competitive processes along with the equilibrium solutions. As appropriate, the supply chain decision-makers compete in terms of quantity and quality, or in price and quality. The relevance of the various models that are developed to specific industrial sectors, including pharmaceuticals and high technology products, is clearly made. Qualitative analyses are provided, along with effective, and, easy to implement, computational procedures. Finally, the impacts of policy interventions, in the form of minimum quality standards, and their ramifications, in terms of product prices, quality levels, as well as profits are explored. The book is filled with many network figures, graphs, and tables with data.
Authors and Affiliations
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Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Anna Nagurney
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Asst. Prof., Dept. of Mgmt & Marketing, College of Business,Arkansas State Univ., Amherst, USA
Dong Li
About the authors
Dong (Michelle) Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at the College of Business at Arkansas State University and a Center Associate at the Virtual Center for Supernetworks at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Nankai University, China. Her research interests include operations research/management science, operations management, network optimization, variational inequalities, dynamical systems, game theory, multicriteria decision-making, quality competition in supply chain networks, pharmaceutical supply chains, sustainable systems, outsourcing, information asymmetry, and hazmat transportation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Competing on Supply Chain Quality
Book Subtitle: A Network Economics Perspective
Authors: Anna Nagurney, Dong Li
Series Title: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25451-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25449-4Published: 09 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79792-2Published: 26 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25451-7Published: 30 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-6395
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6409
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 383
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Procurement