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Strategies To Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions In Grocery Businesses, Gift Wilford Bondwe
Strategies To Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions In Grocery Businesses, Gift Wilford Bondwe
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Supply chains have become more complex in the global economy, which has made supply chain disruptions inevitable. Disruptions can cause loss of profitability and hinder business growth. The goal of this multiple case study was to explore strategies to mitigate the effects of disruption in grocery store supply chains. The conceptual framework for this study was the resource dependency theory, which stipulates that firms rely on other businesses in the external environment for critical resources to create a competitive edge. Four purposively selected participants from 4 grocery store businesses in Northwest Arkansas participated in semistructured interviews and provided organizational documentation …
Manufacturing Companies' Strategies To Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions, Vanessa Kaye Benton
Manufacturing Companies' Strategies To Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions, Vanessa Kaye Benton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Supply chains have become increasingly unstable due to unanticipated disruptive events, which undermines a firm's capacity to achieve a competitive market advantage and increase profitability. The disruption of a supply chain is essential to supply chain managers, as the interruption can be expensive, and the goods and services lost can negatively affect the entire supply chain. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies that manufacturing firm managers use to mitigate supply chain disruptions to remain profitable. The population consisted of 4 supply chain managers from 2 manufacturing firms located in the southern region of eastern …
Manufacturing Companies' Strategies To Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions, Vanessa Kaye Benton
Manufacturing Companies' Strategies To Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions, Vanessa Kaye Benton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Supply chains have become increasingly unstable due to unanticipated disruptive events, which undermines a firm's capacity to achieve a competitive market advantage and increase profitability. The disruption of a supply chain is essential to supply chain managers, as the interruption can be expensive, and the goods and services lost can negatively affect the entire supply chain. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies that manufacturing firm managers use to mitigate supply chain disruptions to remain profitable. The population consisted of 4 supply chain managers from 2 manufacturing firms located in the southern region of eastern …
Strategies To Reduce Employee Turnover In Clinical Logistics, Brenda Marc Simon
Strategies To Reduce Employee Turnover In Clinical Logistics, Brenda Marc Simon
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Clinical supply chain managers who do not apply effective employee turnover strategies could negatively affect team performance, employee morale, employee well-being, patient outcomes, productivity, profitability, and the sustainability of organizational activities. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that supply chain managers used to decrease employee turnover in clinical logistics organizations. The targeted population consisted of 6 clinical logistics supply chain managers working in 6 community hospitals located in Maryland who had experience implementing successful strategies to decrease employee turnover. The servant leadership theory served as the study's framework. Data collection included semistructured interviews and a …