Sub-supplier Management

Joerg S. Hofstetter () and Veronica H. Villena ()
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Joerg S. Hofstetter: KEDGE Business School
Veronica H. Villena: Arizona State University

A chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Supply Chain Management, 2024, pp 1063-1084 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Sub-suppliers – the suppliers of a focal company’s directly contracted suppliers with whom the focal company has no contractual relationship, also termed tier-n suppliers – have become of increasing concern to companies and their various stakeholders. Conventional supply chain management approaches consider direct suppliers being in charge of and responsible for sub-suppliers; however, it rarely occurs. Challenges in the upstream supply chain and new public policy require new approaches to realize targets and objectives also in the context of companies that are part of the supply chain but lack a direct contractual relationship with a focal company. This chapter covers the status quo of the body of knowledge in sub-supplier management and points to numerous streams of research to further progress this rather new field.

Keywords: Sub-supplier; Tier-n supplier; Supply chain transparency; Sustainable supply chain; Circular economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19884-7_55

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