Manufacturing Supply Chains in East Asia: Advantages, Drawbacks and Perspectives
摘要
The organization of supply chains in manufacturing industries has attracted strong attention by researchers and business practitioners, as it is perceived to influence the competitiveness not only of individual firms, but of entire supply chains and even of entire industries across countries . Supply chain organization broadly consists of two aspects: supply chain configuration and supply chain coordination. Supply chain configuration addresses the division of labor across supply chain participants, which is closely related to the degree of individual firms’ vertical integration and thereby to the question of what are efficient boundaries of firms.