Construction Supply Chain Economics.

Construction Supply Chain Economics.

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

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