Invitation to PhD course “Inter-organizational Issues in Supply Chain Management”
Lecturers: Professor Arnt
Buvik,
Professor Sven A. Haugland, Norwegian
5 Credits on the ECTS-scale
Time: 2-7 May 2004 (with arrival on 1 May and departure after 5 p. m. on 7 May)
Place:
Participation: If you wish to take part, please send an application to Professor
Arnt Buvik,
Housing: We have made special arrangements with Hotell Molde. The room price, including breakfast, is NOK 540 for a single room and NOK 740 for a double. Reservations will be made by the organizers.
Local costs
and fees: All
local costs (except housing) are covered by a grant from the Research Council of Norway. Hence, all meals from Sunday night
to Friday lunch are covered, and there are no participation fees. All
successful participants will be given an official transcript from
1. Purpose and Content
Supply Chain Management (SCM) considers on effective organization of value chains and concerns several aspects of the coordination of activities and information within and between vertically linked firms. This course focuses on central topics in inter-organizational theory and research and how these topics are related to significant problems in the organization of supply chains.
The course will enable students to obtain insight into different organization forms of business-to-business transactions and cooperation. Several theoretical perspectives and empirical studies will be presented and we will address fundamental methodological problems and challenges in current research. This course will be ideal for PhD students within marketing, organization science and business logistics and is open to participants from all business schools and university colleges.
Participants are required to read the following five articles in international journals before arrival:
- Lambert, D.M., M.C. Cooper och J.D. Pagh: Supply Chain Management: Implementation Issues and Research Opportunities. International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol 9, No. 2, 1998
- Williamson, O. E.:
Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural
Alternatives, Administrative Science Quarterly, 36, 1991
- Emerson, R. M.:
Power ‑ Dependence Relations, American Sociological Review, Vol.
27, 31‑41, 1962.
- Stern, L. W., A. I. El-Ansary and J. Brown:
Administrative Patterns in Marketing Channels, chapter 9 in Management in
Marketing Channels (eds. Louis
W. Stern, Adel I.
El-Ansary and James Brown), Prentice Hall,
- Rousseau, D. M., S. B. Sitkin, R. S. Burt and C. Camerer: Not So Different After All: A Cross-Dicipline View of Trust, Academy of Management Review, 23, 3, 1998.
These articles are taken from the full list of course literature
which makes the basis for lectures and student presentations in the course, as
well as the course paper. After the registration, a complete collection of the
course literature will be sent to all students who are admitted to the course.
This PhD course will combine different forms of work, lecturing, student
presentation and discussions, and group work.
When the course program is completed, all participants are required to write a course paper and participate in the review process of two papers written by other students. These papers are used to assess students who have taken the course.
In each course paper, the students will have to define and explore a specific phenomenon or research problem related to the course literature and SCM-issues. The basis for the choice of topic for research in these papers is the literature, themes and issues that were taught and discussed during the course. Students have to work through research-based literature and journal articles that are relevant for the research problem in their course paper and capture the main content of these articles:
- What questions does the research seek to answer?
- How is the research topic related to SCM-problems?
- What general conceptual and theoretical background can be identified in the research?
- What methodological approaches are applied?
- What results and answers are given in the literature that you have studied?
The course paper should be 10-15 pages and is to be sent to the
course lecturers for review by
4. Course Programme and Literature
Monday 3 May:
Supply Chain Management, The Concept and Theoretical Perspectives
Basic Literature:
1. Tan, K. C.: A Framework of supply chain management literature. European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 7, 2001.
2. Larson, P. D. and Rogers, D. S.: Supply Chain Management: Definitions, Growth and Approaches. Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, 6 (4), Fall, 1998.
3. Lambert, D.M.,
M.C. Cooper och J.D. Pagh: Supply Chain Management: Implementation Issues and
Research Opportunities. International Journal of Logistics
Management, Vol 9, No. 2, 1998
4. Croom, S., Romano, P., Giannakis, M. Supply chain management: an
analytical framework for critical literature review. European
Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management 6, 2000.
5. Reve, T.: The
Firm as a nexus of internal and external contracts. In
M. Aoki, B. Gustafsson and O. Williamson (eds), The Firm as a Nexus of
Treaties, 1990,
Supplementary Literature:
1. Harland, C. M. Supply Chain Management: Relationships, Chains and Networks. British Journal of Management, 7, 1996.
2. Croxton, K. L. and S. J. Garcia-Dastugue: The Supply Chain Management Process. The International Journal of Logistics Management, 12, 2, 2001.
3. Lambert, D.M. and M. C. Cooper: Issues in Supply Chain Management. Industrial Marketing Management 29, 2000.
Tuesday 4 May:
Inter-Firm Dependencies and Significant Antecedents to the Organization of Business-to-Business Relationships -Transaction Costs Analysis
Basic Literature:
1. Williamson, O.E: Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations, Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 22, 233-261, 1979.
2. Williamson, O. E.: Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives, Administrative Science Quarterly, 36, 1991
3. Buvik, A. and G. John: When Does Vertical Coordination Improve IndustrialPurchasing Relationships, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 64 (4), 2000.
4. Buvik, A.: Manufacturer-Specific Asset Investments and Inter-Firm Governance Forms in Industrial Buyer-Supplier Relationships: An Empirical Test of the Contingent Effect of Exchange Frequency. Journal of Business-To-Business Marketing, 9, 4, 2002.
5. Heide, J. B. and G. John: Alliances in Industrial Purchasing: The Determinants of Joint Action in Buyer-supplier Relationships, Journal of Marketing Research, 27,
1990.
Supplementary Literature:
1. Rindfleisch, A. and J. B. Heide: Transaction Cost Analysis: Past, Present, and Future Applications”, Journal of Marketing, Oct., 1997.
2. Frazier G. L., R. E. Spekman, and C. R. O`Neal: Just-In-Time Exchange Relationships in Industrial Markets, Journal of Marketing, 52, 1988.
3. Buvik, A. and O. Andersen: The Impact of Vertical Coordination on Ex Post Transaction Costs in Domestic and International Buyer-Seller Relationships, Journal of International Marketing, 10, 1, 2002.
Wednesday 5 May:
Market Structure, Structural Power and Conflicts in Business-to-Business Relationships
Basic Literature
1. Emerson, R. M.: Power ‑ Dependence Relations, American Sociological Review, Vol. 27, 31‑41, 1962.
2. Elram, L. and C. Billington: Purchasing leverage considerations in the outsourcing decision, European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, 7, 2001.
4. Buvik, A: The Industrial Purchasing Research Framework: A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives from Micro Economics, Marketing and Organization Science. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 16, 6, 2001.
5. Heide, Jan B.: Inter-Organizational Governance in Marketing Channels: Theoretical Perspectives on Forms and Antecedents,” Journal of Marketing, 58,
(January), 1994.
Supplementary Literature:
1. El-Ansary, A. I. and L. W. Stern: Power Measurement in Distribution Channels, Journal of Marketing Research, 9, 1972.
2. Etgar, M.: Channel Domination and Countervailing Power in Distributive Channels, Journal of Marketing Research, 13, 1976.
3. Williamson, O.: Strategizing, Economizing, And Economic Organization," Strategic Management Journal, 12, 1991.
Thursday 6 May:
Relational Contracting and Trust in Supply Chain Relationships
Basic
Literature:
1. Haugland, S. A.: Teori om relasjonskontrakter, in S. A. Haugland,
Relasjonskontrakter i distribusjonskanaler: En empirisk studie av
distribusjonskanaler for
eksport av norsk oppdrettslaks, Doktoravhandling, Norges
Handelshøyskole, Bergen, 38-56, 1988.
2. Rousseau, D. M., S. B. Sitkin, R. S. Burt and C. Camerer: Not So Different After All: A Cross-Dicipline View of Trust, Academy of Management Review, 23, 3, 1998.
3. Heide, J. B. and G. John: Do Norms Matter in Marketing Relationships, Journal of Marketing, 56, 1992.
4. Doney, P. M. and J.P. Cannon: An Examination of the Nature of Trust in Buyer-Seller Relationships, Journal of Marketing, 61, 1997.
5. Buvik, A. and S. A. Haugland: Allocation of Specific Assets, Relationship Duration, and Contractual Safeguarding, Scandinavian Journal of Management (forthcoming in special issue, 2004).
Supplementary Literature:
1.
2. Janda, S., J. B. Murray, and
3. A. Buvik and Ø. Halskau: Relationship Duration and Buyer Influence in Just-in-Time Relationships, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, November, 2000.
4. Rokkan, A. I. and S. A. Haugland: Developing Relational Exchange: Effectiveness and Power, European Journal of Marketing, 36, 2002.
Friday 7 May:
Coordination Problems in Distribution Channels
Basic Literature:
1. Stern, L. W., A. I. El-Ansary and J. Brown: Administrative Patterns in Marketing Channels, chapter 9 in Management in Marketing Channels (eds. Louis W. Stern, Adel I. El-Ansary and James Brown), Prentice Hall, new Jersey, 1992.
2. Stern, L. W. and T. Reve: Distribution Channels and Political Economies. A Framework for Comparative Analysis. Journal of Marketing, 44, 1980.
3. Bradach, J. L. and R. G. Eccles: Price, Authority and Trust: From Ideal Types to Plural Forms, Annual Review of Sociology, 15, 1989.
4. Cannon, J. P., R. S. Achrol, and G. T. Gundlach: Contracts, Norms,
and Plural Form Governance, Journal of the
5. Haugland, S. A., T. Reve and K. Grønhaug: Governance Modes in International Business-to-Business Relationships, paper in review in Industrial and Corporate Change.
Supplementary Literature:
1. Poppo, L. and T. Zenger: Do Formal Contracts and Relational Governance Function as Substitutes or Complements, Strategic Management Journal, 23, 8, 2002.
2. Rokkan, A. and A. Buvik: Inter-Firm Cooperation and the Problem of Free Riding Behavior: An Empirical Study of Voluntary Retail Chains, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, December, 2003.
3. Haugland, S. A. and T. Reve: Price, Authority and Trust in International Distribution Channel Relationships, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 10 (3), 225-244, 1994.