Supply chains and the enterprise Journal Articles

abstract

• PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on supply chains and the enterprise.Design/methodology/approachIntroductory review and brief description of research papers in this issue.FindingsTo demonstrate the growing complexity and the multiple factors involved in structuring the enterprise effectively, references a paper by Iyer and Gottlieb that suggests an approach to enterprise architecture design. This integrates the internal and external environment, thus being highly relevant to supply chain issues.Research limitations/implicationsImplies that the broad research framework for enterprise architecture is relevant to the study of supply chain issues, but leaves the reader to discover whether this is the case by perusing the research papers in this issue.Practical implicationsLinks enterprise architecture to supply chain issues of importance to industry.Originality/valueProvides a descriptive framework for linking papers in the issue to general supply chain issues.

authors

• Archer, Norman

status

• published 

publication date

• May 1, 2006

has subject area

• 0806 Information Systems (FoR)
• 0807 Library and Information Studies (FoR)
• 1503 Business and Management (FoR)
• Business & Management (Science Metrix)

published in

• Journal of Enterprise Information Management  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
• 3509 Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chains
• 46 Information and Computing Sciences
• 4609 Information Systems

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1108/17410390610658432

start page

• 241

end page

• 245

volume

• 19

issue

• 3