VALUE SYSTEM SPECIFICATION: DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH

摘要

Much research has been conducted on the "supply chain" over the past decade. However, that research has struggled to provide a unified definition of the phenomenon studied [Mentzer et al. 2001, Cooper et al. 1997]. Unfortunately, without such a unified definition, the phenomenon cannot be studied effectively [Mentzer et al. 2001, Rutner and Langley 2000]. This paper provides some definitional history, re-introduces some criteria already established in the literature that will help to distinguish between elements of the phenomenon, expands those criteria with requirements based on interorganizational management systems thinking as presented in this paper, and suggests terms that allow for distinction and specification of the phenomenon for interpretation purposes.