Japanese automakers, U.S. suppliers and supply-chain superiority

By J. Liker, Y. Wu. 2001

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The relationships between supplier development, commitment, social capital accumulation and performance improvement (2007, background): “firms have been reluctant to invest in supplier development due to a perceived lack of immediate return on investment associated with deploying the resources required to make it successful (Liker and Wu, 2000; Dyer and Nobeoka, 2000; Smock, 2001).”
The role of trust and relationship structure in improving supply chain responsiveness (2002, background): “First, the marketing literature provides multiple studies of interorganizational relationships assessing these elements from the supplier’s perspective [14,32,55], but relatively few models assess the buying company’s perspective [19,42].”
Lean, six sigma and lean sigma: fads or real process improvement methods? (2008, methodology): “This paper concludes with the discussion of the need for a process‐based approach to organizational improvement efforts.”