Global supply chain management: The selection of globally competent managers

Michael G. Harvey and R. Glenn Richey

Journal of International Management, 2001, vol. 7, issue 2, 105-128

Abstract: The ability of organizations to effectively compete in the global marketplace is contingent on identifying and selecting an adequate number of qualified global managers. Nowhere is the shortage of managerial talent more evident than in the management of global supply chains. The complex and vexing set of problems facing global supply chain managers makes the task of selecting an adequate supply of managers much more daunting. Given the historic perspective of manning supply chain positions (i.e., managers with a operation and functional orientation), human resource managers are modifying and updating the profile of the global supply chain manager's position to encompass political, cultural/social, network, and an awareness of the significant differences to be found in global markets. In an effort to develop a criteria for the selection of global supply chain managers, a competency-based theoretical perspective is used and eight intelligences are examined that can be used in the selection of global supply chain managers.

Keywords: Competencies; Expatriates; Global; strategy; Global; human; resources; Global; marketing; channel; Intelligence; bases; International; management; International; marketing; Manager; selection; Network; theory; Resourced; based; theory; Sourcing; Supply; chain; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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