experiences, four major problem categories are distinguished: communication, patient safety, waiting times, and integration … implications – Problems with communication and integration might well benefit from the nomination of care coordinators. Information … inter‐organisationally, is a necessary condition for enhanced patient‐centred integration. Policy should also stimulate the …

increase integration within a supply chain and improve competitiveness. Originality/value – The major contribution of this …

Purpose – This paper aims to simultaneously examine the impact of three types of supply chain integration (SCI) on … relationships among internal integration, customer integration, supplier integration, supplier‐oriented performance, customer … internal integration improves external integration and that internal and external integration directly and indirectly enhance …

in the logistics chain. Reveals widespread support for the idea of supply chain integration, but little evidence of …

collaboration and integration. When applied to logistics, each has been shown to exhibit different levels of success depending on …/value – This paper identifies an innovative business model for logistics integration that can be used in future in other cases to …

practices of integration that can be extrapolated to different scopes (both internal and external) and participants (supplier … and customer) within the supply chain; and to evaluate the relations between the different components of integration … integration, a model is presented and tested using structural equation modelling. Data were collected from 450 enterprises from …

Purpose Much has been written about the importance of external integration for the integrity of food products. To … process. The more complex the supply chain operations are, the greater will be the need for integration. This research paper … investigates the impact of external integration on compliance with halal standards, as an example of product integrity within the …

dataset collected from 266 Chinese electronics firms. Findings – Initially, it was found that SC integration and external … agility. Moreover, SC agility also fully mediated the effect of SC integration on firm’s performance and the effect of … emerging market. Findings reveal that the external coordination practices – external learning and SC integration – are …

relationships on supply chain integration and performance by developing and empirically validating a model linking these constructs … commitment are instrumental for the formation of supply chain relationships characterised by higher information integration. In … turn, information integration has much stronger impact on the coordination of operational decisions related to production …

related to greater internal integration of supply management within the organization, and its subsequent effects on supplier … integration and supplier performance. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model, using information processing theory as a … internal integration of supply management. Internal integration subsequently is positively related to supplier integration …