Structural and agentic analysis of supply-chains: a social network analysis approach

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dc.contributor.authorSloane, Alan
dc.contributor.authorO'Reilly, Seamus
dc.contributor.editorPawar, Kulwant S.
dc.contributor.editorRogers, Helen
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-31T13:57:36Z
dc.date.available2016-05-31T13:57:36Z
dc.date.issued2011-07
dc.date.updated2015-01-27T10:49:43Z
dc.description.abstractThis research adds to a body of work exploring the role of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in the study of both relational and structural characteristics of supply chain networks. Two contrasting network cases (food enterprises and digital-based enterprises) are chosen in order to elicit structural differences in business networks subject to divergences in local embeddedness and the relative materiality of the goods and services produced. Our analysis and findings draw out differences in network structure as evidenced by metrics of network centralization and cohesion, the presence of components and other sub-groupings, and the position of central actors. We relate these structural features both to the nature of the networks and to the (qualitative) experiences of the actors themselves. We find, in particular, the role of customers as co-creators of knowledge (for the Food network), the central role of infrastructure and services (for the Digital network), the importance of ICT as a source of codified knowledge inputs, along with the continuing importance of geographical proximity for the development and transfer of tacit knowledge and for incremental learning.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSloane, A. and O'Reilly, S. (2011) ‘Structural and agentic analysis of supply-chains: a social network analysis approach, in Pawar, K. S. & Rogers, H. (eds.) Re-building supply chains for a globalised world, 16th international symposium on logistics (ISL 2011) Berlin, Germany, 10-14 July, pp 125-136. isbn: 978 085358 278 6.en
dc.identifier.endpage136en
dc.identifier.isbn978 085358 278 6
dc.identifier.startpage125en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/2658
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCentre for Concurrent Enterprise, Nottingham University Business Schoolen
dc.relation.ispartof"Re-building Supply Chains for a Globalised World", 16th International Symposium on Logistics (ISL 2011)
dc.relation.urihttp://www.isl21.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/16thISLProceedings-Berlin-Germany.pdf
dc.rights© Nottingham University Business School, 2011en
dc.subjectSNAen
dc.subjectSupply chain networksen
dc.subjectFood networken
dc.subjectDigital networken
dc.subjectSocial network analysisen
dc.titleStructural and agentic analysis of supply-chains: a social network analysis approachen
dc.typeConference itemen
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