The aim of the paper was to present the current developments and possible development directions of food supply chains. It was indicated that it is necessary to conduct a research concerning the functioning of the food supply chains. Due to the nature of the food supply chains, especially...

In the last two decades, the topic of sustainability has moved from the fringes of supply chain management research to the mainstream and is now an area of significant research activities, and in particular the short food supply chains (SFSCs). There are many different forms of SFSC, but they...

In this paper, we first identify a number of supply chain activities that require financial knowledge for value creating decision-making. We then recommend a set of financial concepts and techniques for supply chain professionals. In addition, we propose the use of Bloomberg terminals, with...

Suppliers of consumer packaged goods are facing an increasingly challenging situation as they work to fulfill orders from their retail partners' distribution facilities. Traditionally these suppliers have generated forecasts of a given retailer's orders using records of that retailer's past...

We examine the effect of social capital on buyer-supplier relationships. We report evidence that firms make larger relationship-specific investments when their supply chain partners are headquartered in states with high social capital. This result is more pronounced in environments where supply...

We introduce a version of the Cumulative Offer Algorithm of Hatfield and Milgrom(2005) modified for the supply chain networks setting of Ostrovsky (2008). The algorithmprovides an alternative proof for existence of a chain stable network. Moreover, we show that when choice functions satisfy...