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The Global Supply Chain

Part of the Management for Professionals Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51115-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-51114-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 4, 2017

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Chapter 1Trade and the Global Supply Chain

Lehmacher, Wolfgang

Pages: 1 –38

[Global trade is having a hard time not only through recent tendencies towards rising nationalism, stronger protectionism, and regional and global disintegration risks. According to the 18th Global Trade Alert Report by the London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), governments all...
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Chapter 2Global Supply Chain: Golden Gate or Sword of Damocles?

Lehmacher, Wolfgang

Pages: 39 –65

[Early on, Western economies largely benefitted from international trade, which was made possible by global supply and value chains. In the last decades, the developing world has significantly increased its participation in global trade. The balancing of the developments to avoid economic losers...
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Chapter 3Global Dynamics and Key Trends

Lehmacher, Wolfgang

Pages: 67 –112

[For supply chain managers, long-term considerations regarding economic development, the future of industrial sectors and ecosystems, and geopolitics were less of a priority in the past. Events, such as 9/11, the Arab Spring, and the growing number of trade barriers and geopolitical tensions...
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Chapter 4Circular Economy and Society

Lehmacher, Wolfgang

Pages: 113 –144

[Since the beginning of time, the earth has operated as a regenerative system. Only in our most recent history has mankind come close to largely burning, burying, and poisoning the basis of our existence and that which future generations will need to live. Global industrialization endangers...
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Chapter 5Shaping the Future of Supply Chains

Lehmacher, Wolfgang

Pages: 145 –156

[Smart supply chains are agile supply chains. Establishing agile supply chains requires vision and solid change management capabilities. Speed, flexibility, data management, and collaboration are key characteristics of modern supply chains.]

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