The business environment has changed tremendously in the last two decades. Corporations have been forced to realign their global strategies and in order to cut costs, they started to transfer activities which were previously performed in-house to the market (e.g. IT, manufacturing or logistics) focusing instead on their core competencies…
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 PROBLEM BACKGROUND
1.1.1 Moving towards a new organizational paradigm
1.2 RESEARCH SUBJECT CHOICE
1.2.1 Research Question
1.2.2 Research Purpose
1.3 DISPOSITION
2 THEORETICAL METHOD
2.1 PRECONCEPTIONS
2.2 VIEWS OF KNOWLEDGE AND REALITY
2.2.1 Epistemology
2.2.2 Ontology
2.3 SIENTIFIC APPROACH
2.4 SECONDARY SOURCES
3 THEORY
3.1 ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
3.1.1 The building blocks of organizational design
3.1.2 Combining Logistics, Strategy and Structure
3.1.2.1 Strategy
3.1.2.2 Structure
3.1.2.3 Structure – Network organization
3.1.3 Strategic blueprints of the firm
3.1.3.1 Market-based view
3.1.3.2 Resource-based & Core-competencies view
3.2 THE VALUE CHAIN – SHIFTING THE BOUNDARIES (OUTSOURCING / DECONSTRUCTION/ DISINTERMEDIATION)
3.3 ENTERPRISE LOGISTICS INTEGRATION
3.3.1 Logistics & Supply Chain Management Theory
3.3.2 The supply chain integrator
3.3.3 Information and the synchronous supply chain
3.4 LOGISTICS AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
3.4.1 Delivering customer value
3.4.2 Customer service objectives and priorities
3.5 THE BULLWHIP EFFECT
3.6 LOGISTICS AND THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT
4 PRACTICAL METHOD
4.1 INITIAL STEPS
4.2 THE SELECTION OF SITES
4.3 METHOD OF COLLECTING DATA
4.4 METHOD OF ANALYZING DATA
4.4.1 Interview guide
4.4.2 Presentation of the interviews
4.5 EVALUATING THE RESEARCH
5 EMPIRICAL DATA
5.1 SONAT
5.1.1 The single firm
5.1.2 Enterprise Logistics Integration
5.1.3 Logistics & Competitive advantage
5.2 UAE LOGISTICS
5.2.1 The single firm
5.2.2 Enterprise Logistics Integration
5.2.3 Logistics & Competitive advantage
5.3 VOLVO LOGISTICS
5.3.1 The single firm
5.3.2 Enterprise Logistics Integration
5.3.3 Logistics & Competitive advantage
6 ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION
6.1 THEME 1 – THE SINGLE FIRM
6.1.1 Sonat
6.1.2 UAE Logistics
6.1.3 Volvo Logistics
6.1.4 Theme discussion
6.2 THEME 2 – ENTERPRISE LOGISTICS INTEGRATION
6.2.1 ….
Author: Braganca, Paulo
Source: Umea University
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