Supply chain management and logistics complexity: a contingency approach

Peter Wanke and Henrique Correa

International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation, 2012, vol. 4, issue 4, 239-271

Abstract: By empirically exploring the correlation between logistics complexity-related contextual conditions and supply chain management (SCM) objectives and decision areas/practices, this study aims to investigate whether, and the means by which, supply chain managers of large manufacturing companies adopt a contingency approach in their supply chain decisions. This study involves a comprehensive literature review followed by an analysis of survey data using cluster analysis, factor analysis and binary logistic regression. Statistically significant relationships were found between logistics complexity-related contextual conditions and supply chain objectives and decision areas. Although some prescriptive context-dependent models for supply chain management can be found in the literature, this research tries to fill a gap by empirically demonstrating that large manufacturing companies actually tend to make their supply chain choices contingent upon their logistics complexity-related context.

Keywords: Brazil; contingency approach; logistics complexity; supply chain management; SCM; manufacturing industry; supply chain decisions; decision making; literature review; supply chain objectives. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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