CO-OPERATING TO COMPETE IN HIGH VELOCITY GLOBAL MARKETS: THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF FLEXIBLE SUPPLY CHAIN ARCHITECTURES

Continued value creation is paramount for the survival of firms competing in today's high velocity global business environment. This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding how firms can create and capture value within a highly volatile and uncertain business environment by exploiting both performance gaps and opportunity gaps through the development and use of flexible supply chain architectures. The choice of flexible organizational architecture allows for the continued reconfiguration of the independent modular components of the supply chain so as to achieve optimal leverage of both the firms core competencies as well as their collaborative partners complementary resources. The case of Cellars of Canterbury, a New Zealand based International wine marketing and distribution cooperative enterprise provides empirical support.Industrial Organization, International Relations/Trade,

CO-OPERATING TO COMPETE IN HIGH VELOCITY GLOBAL MARKETS: THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF FLEXIBLE SUPPLY CHAIN ARCHITECTURES

Continued value creation is paramount for the survival of firms competing in today's high velocity global business environment. This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding how firms can create and capture value within a highly volatile and uncertain business environment by exploiting both performance gaps and opportunity gaps through the development and use of flexible supply chain architectures. The choice of flexible organizational architecture allows for the continued reconfiguration of the independent modular components of the supply chain so as to achieve optimal leverage of both the firms core competencies as well as their collaborative partners complementary resources. The case of "Cellars of Canterbury," a New Zealand based International wine marketing and distribution cooperative enterprise provides empirical support. Keywords: value creation, flexible supply chain architectures, leverage, core competencies.value creation, flexible supply chain architectures, leverage, core competencies., Industrial Organization, Marketing,

Information seeking in the Humanities: physicality and digitality

This paper presents a brief overview of a research project that is examining the information seeking practices of humanities scholars. The results of this project are being used to develop digital resources to better support these work activities. Initial findings from a recent set of interviews is offered, revealing the importance of physical artefacts in the humanities scholars’ research processes and the limitations of digital resources. Finally, further work that is soon to be undertaken is summarised, and it is hoped that after participation in this workshop these ideas will be refined

Metabolism impacts upon Candida immunogenicity and pathogenicity at multiple levels

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Farm debt and financial viability

New Zealand Society of Farm Management Conference proceedings 1971.This bulletin has been produced by the Department of Farm Management and Rural Valuation of Lincoln College in association with the New Zealand Society of Farm Management. It consists of papers given at the Society of Farm Management section of the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Institute of Agriculture Science held at Lincoln College in August 1971. Deepening financial problems in the Sheep Industry have focussed attention on the need for a fuller understanding of the nature of these problems, and the policy measures needed to meet them. These papers make a contribution to this understanding

Recognition and blocking of innate immunity cells by Candida albicans chitin

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Privacy Rights and Prepaid Communication Services

This report includes the results of a survey gathering details on the current state of regulation of prepaid mobile phones across a comparable range of countries in the OECD. It presents the results of the survey and is intended to contribute to an informed public deliberation on the question of privacy rights and prepaid communications services in Canada and elsewhere

Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators

In order to advance the field of procedural content generation, and transfer knowledge from academic research to everyday use, we need to develop tools that make generative systems easier to understand and control. In this paper we introduce Danesh, a plugin to the Unity game development environment. We describe Danesh's various features, including automatic analysis and visualisation tools, and provide reflections on both our development of the tool and our experiences of using it in educational contexts

Benefits of a marketing cooperative in transition agriculture: Mórakert purchasing and service co-operative

The paper analyses the potential benefits of marketing cooperatives in Hungary, employing a transaction cost economics framework. We found that the purchased quantity, the existence of contracts, flexibility and trust are the most important factors farmers consider when selling their products via a cooperative. The most striking result is that diversification has positive influences on the share of cooperatives in farmers’ sale. Furthermore, farmers with larger bargaining power have less willingness to sell their product to the cooperative. Surprisingly, asset specificity has rather negative effects on the share of cooperatives in members’ sales

Farm budget manual 1971

The Lincoln College Farm Budget Manual is revised and published annually to assist people involved in the preparation of farm budgets. This1971 edition has been heavily revised and a considerable amount of new material added. Whilst no claim is made that the contents are exhaustive they are, we feel, quite comprehensive. In a period of rapid cost inflation and short term price freeze the expenditure section has been especially hard to prepare. To the best of our knowledge the prices quoted were those operating at 9th February 1971.The Lincoln College budget is designed primarily as a teaching aid and thus lays considerable emphasis on formalizing the farm programme for the budget year. The Society of Accountants budget on the other hand is designed for use by accountants whose main interest lies in the finances of the farm rather than the details of the farm programme. Both of these budget layouts contain too much detail for some purposes, and for some people. The third budget that used by the New Zealand Dairy Board is an example of a budget layout reduced to its bare bones. For a seasonal supply dairy farm with only a small number of variables to be considered it is quick to use and easy to understand. In addition to the three layouts reproduced in this manual there are many more in use servicing the agricultural sector. The general layout of this manual follows the layout of the Lincoln College budget. Section I is devoted to data required to plan the physical operation of the farm over twelve months. The succeeding two sections contain the revenue and expenditure data required to convert the physical programme into a financial one. Section IV contains some relevant notes on taxation as applied to farming enterprises. In the final section a considerable number of gross margins have been reproduced for the benefit of those people who may be interested in analysing individual enterprises