Construction Supply Chain Economics.

• Superior document: Spon Research Series
• Author: London, Kerry.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : CRC Press LLC,, 2007.; ©2008.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Spon Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (481 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction to supply chain economics and procurement -- 1.0 Orientation -- 1.1 Rationale for text -- 1.2 Ideas explored in this text -- 1.3 Structure of text -- 1.4 A final word -- Chapter 2: The rationale for the modelling of procurement in the construction supply chain -- 2.0 Orientation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background to policy analysis -- 2.3 Charting the government quest for improved industry performance: international analysis - national studies and frameworks -- 2.4 National case study: Australian initiatives -- 2.5 Government economic models of performance -- 2.6 A final word -- Chapter 3: Supply chain theory and models -- 3.0 Orientation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Supply chain terminology -- 3.3 Charting the supply chain movement -- 3.4 Industrial organization economics -- 3.5 A final word -- Chapter 4: Industrial organization economics methodology and supply chain industrial organization approaches -- 4.0 Orientation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Industrial organization economics overview -- 4.3 Key concepts of structure, conduct and performance -- 4.4 Procurement relationships -- 4.5 Chain organization -- 4.6 Issues for procurement modelling using an industrial organization economics approach -- 4.7 A final word -- Chapter 5: Project-oriented industrial organization economics supply chain procurement model -- 5.0 Orientation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Assembling the structural elements of the model -- 5.3 Description of the behavioural characteristics of the model -- 5.4 A final word -- Chapter 6: Multiple project environment chain structural organization -- 6.0 Orientation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Projects and firms -- 6.3 Types of suppliers, associations and commodity attributes.

6.4 Structural organization of supply chains at individual firm level -- 6.5 A final word -- Chapter 7: Case study: complex core commodity supply chain - façade chain cluster -- 7.0 Orientation -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Firm details -- 7.3 Commodities and industrial market details -- 7.4 Supplier types -- 7.5 Procurement relationships -- 7.6 Aggregated project supply chain organization: supply channels -- 7.7 A final word -- Chapter 8: Case study: simple and complex core and non-core supply chain - steel chain cluster -- 8.0 Orientation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Firm details -- 8.3 Markets, commodities and competitors -- 8.4 Supplier types -- 8.5 Procurement relationships -- 8.6 A final word -- Chapter 9: Case studies: simple and complex core commodity supply chains - mechanical services, formwork, concrete and masonry -- 9.0 Orientation -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Case study: mechanical services - core commodity -- 9.3 Case study: formwork - core commodity -- 9.4 Case study: concrete - core commodity -- 9.5 Case study: brick - core product -- 9.6 A final word -- Chapter 10: Conclusions and future directions: supply chain specialization and integration blueprint -- 10.0 Orientation -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Supplier firm and procurement relationship classes -- 10.3 Supply chain classes -- 10.4 Supply Chain Information Procurement Model (SCIP Model) -- 10.5 Procurement relationship events -- 10.6 Negotiation chain of events -- 10.7 Interdisciplinary context and discourse -- 10.8 Interdisciplinary patterns of study: borrowing, hybridization and common ground -- 10.9 Further studies -- 10.10 A final word -- Bibliography -- Index.