Within global and rapidly changing environments, cooperation and networking offer possibilities for sharing costs and risks, as well as keeping up with constantly renewed information from outside the firms' boundaries. In line with this, an effective management control of supply chain processes seems to be relevant to compete against other supply chains and to get the required information. In this context, an implementation of a management control institution for inter-firm relations, like a supply chain management control (SCMC), that provides relevant qualitative and quantitative data to manage supply chains reflects an important issue.
However, a comprehensive approach with regard to the management control of the entire supply chain and how it can be fulfilled has received scant attention in prior research. The aim of this thesis is therefore to analyze management control systems in global supply chains by means of a mixed methods design with special regard to functional, institutional and instrumental issues. In this context, qualitative data are combined with theoretical insights to develop an empirical model which is tested by means of a quantitative study. Following this, insights into management control aspects, organization of the supply chain management control, management control mechanisms, and the integration of suppliers are provided.
Thesis
Dissertationsschrift
2009
ESCP Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin
Sprache
Zielgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
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70
36 Schaubilder, 70 s/w Tabellen
Maße
Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-89936-865-9 (9783899368659)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Nils Horch studied from 2000 till 2005 mechanical engineering and business administration at the Technical University of Berlin attending the following majors: logistics, management accounting, and strategic management. Between 2005 and 2009 he worked as a research assistant for the chair of management control (Prof. Dr. Rolf Brühl) at the ESCP Europe in Berlin. In October 2009 he finished his dissertation about the management control in global supply chains with the academic degree "Dr. rer. pol.". Since 2009 he has been working for the Volkswagen AG and is responsible for projects in the field of organization development especially in production and logistics issues.
1 Introduction
1.1 Management Control in Global Supply Chains as a Field for Researchers and Practitioners
1.2 Research Background and Research Questions
1.3 Outline of the Thesis
2 Supply Chain Management
2.1 Definitions and Research Background
2.2 Business Trends and Challenges for a Management of Global Supply Chains
2.3 Existing Models to Describe the Management of Supply Chains and their Global Adaptation
3 Supply Chain Management Control
3.1 Supply Chain Management Control Systems - an Introduction
3.2 Supply Chain Controlling vs. Inter-organizational Management Control - The German Excurse
3.3 Institutional and Functional Elements of a Supply Chain Management Control System
3.4 Instrumental Elements of a Supply Chain Management Control System
3.5 Management Control Patterns
3.6 Selected Contextual Variables and their Theoretical Underpinning
4 Synopsis and Research Design
4.1 Synopsis Towards the Empirical Research Design
4.2 Mixed Methods as an Appropriate Research Design
4.3 Different Ways to Conduct Mixed Methods Research
5 Step 1: Qualitative Study
5.1 Overview of Qualitative Research and the Case-Study Approach
5.2 Case Selection and Description
5.3 Data Collection
5.4 Qualitative Results
6 Step II: Quantitative Study
6.1 Partial-Least-Squares (PLS) as a Research Design
6.2 Determination of Formative and Reflective Measurement Models
6.3 Study Design
6.4 Construct Description
6.5 Structural Model Results
6.6 Further Results on the Types of Supply Chain Management Control
7 Discussion of the Results and Conclusion
7.1 Discussion of the Two Studies
7.2 Limitations of the Research Design
7.3 Conclusion and Future Research
