Life cycle management in supply chains identifying innovations through the case of the VCR
Title:
Life cycle management in supply chains identifying innovations through the case of the VCR
Author:
Higuchi, Toru.
ISBN:
9781599045573
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Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xx, 340 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
SCS models -- Review of Life Cycle Theories -- Analytic Research and Quantitative Models -- Supply Chain Dynamics and Dynamic Simulation -- Prerequisite conditions for commercializing -- Struggle for de facto standards -- Development of products -- Emergence of destructive new technologies -- Extreme innovators and innovators -- Early adopters and early majority -- Late majority and laggards -- Physical location -- Partial dispersion -- Total dispersion -- Convergence of facilities in low cost operation areas -- Application of the industrial life cycle concept.
Abstract:
This book work on the intimate connection between the industry life cycle and supply chain management, utilizes the case of the industrial life cycle of the VCR to provide insight into the supply chain as the basic business unit for competition, and the requisite alteration of the management of the supply chain at each stage of the life cycle.
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Electronic Access:
Chapter PDFs via platform: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59904-555-9