This book examines key issues, challenges, opportunities and trends in innovation processes and supply chain management. It proposes ways for organizations to improve their performance by developing business strategies, establishing business innovation activities, and aligning business and innovation activities among firms. Further, it showcases and analyzes the implementation of inter- and intra-organizational process improvement activities and the implementation of organizational innovation solutions to address new product and process-related collaborative relationships across the supply chain. The book is useful for researchers, academics and professionals, presenting some of the most advanced research, concepts, and case studies on the relationship between innovation and supply chain.
Part I. Innovation and Supply Chain Management.
Chapter
1. The
Intellectual Structure of the Relationship between Innovation and Supply
Chain Management.- Part II. The importance of supplier-client relationships.-
Chapter
2. Coordination of New Product Development and Supply Chain
Management.
Chapter
3. An Investigation of Contextual Influences on
Innovation in Complex Projects.
Chapter
4. Necessary Governing Practices for
Success and Failure of Client-supplier Innovation Cooperation.
Chapter
5.
Collaborative new Product Development in SMEs and Large Industrial Firms.
Relationships Upstream and Downstream in the Supply Chain.
Chapter
6. Its
Time to Include Suppliers in the Product Innovation Charter (PIC).
Chapter
7. Mission Impossible: How to Make Early Supplier Involvement Work in New
Product Development?.- Part III. Strategies and implications for innovation.-
Chapter
8. Purchasing Involvement in Discontinuous Innovation: An Emerging
Research Agenda.
Chapter
9. National Culture as an Antecedent for
Information Sharing in Supply Chains: A Study of Manufacturing Companies in
OECD Countries.
Chapter 10.- Risk allocation and supplier development in
Automotive Supply Chains: A Study of Nissan Europe.
Chapter
11. Does Supply
Chain Innovation Pay Off?.- Part IV. Information and Technology.
Chapter
12.
Technological Innovations in Supply Chains.
Chapter
13. The Role of
Informational and Human Resource Capabilities for Enabling Diffusion of Big
Data and Predictive Analytics and Ensuing Performance.
Chapter
14. Adoption
of Industry 4.0 Technologies in Supply Chains.
Chapter
15. Advanced Supply
Chains: Visibility, Blockchain and Human Behaviour.
António Carrizo Moreira obtained a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters degree in Management, both from the University of Porto, Portugal. He received his PhD in Management from UMIST-University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England. He has a solid international background in industry leveraged working for a multinational company in Germany as well as in Portugal. He has also been involved in consultancy projects and in research activities. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Tourism, University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he headed the Bachelor and Master Degrees in Management for five years. He is member of GOVCOPP research unit.
Luķs Miguel D. F. Ferreira is currently Assistant Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Coimbra. He received his master degree and PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests include topics related to supply chain management, supply chain risk management, sustainable supply chain management and international purchasing. His research has been published in Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Production Planning and Control, among others. He has also been deeply involved in consultancy projects with public institutions and private companies. He is member of CEMMPRE research unit.
Ricardo A. Zimmermann is a research fellow at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Tourism in the University of Aveiro, Portugal and is a member of the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP). His research interests have been focused on Supply Chain Management, Innovation Management and Strategic Management. Ricardo haswork experience in companies in Brazil and Portugal in areas such as Strategic Management, Quality Management, Risk Management, Project Management, Budget and Costs Management and Corporate Governance. He has also experience as a consultant and as an assessor in quality awards.
