Redefining Supply Chain Management
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Most dominant theories in supply chain management (SCM) take a reductionist and static view, which results in supply chains being operated without much concern for their broader contextual environment. This perspective overlooks that supply chains have become both vulnerable and harmful systems.

  • Supply chains are operated with great concern for their broader contextual environment.
  • Supply chains are not harmful systems.
  • Supply chains are not operated without much concern for their broader contextual environment. (correct)
  • Supply chains are only vulnerable systems.

    • Recent and ongoing crises have emphasized that the structures and processes of supply chains are fluid and interwoven with what types of phenomena?

  • Economic and industrial phenomena
  • Social and environmental phenomena
  • Technological and cultural phenomena
  • Political-economic and planetary phenomena (correct)

    • What theory does this article build on to reinterpret the supply chain as a social-ecological system?

  • Globalist theory
  • Panarchy theory (correct)
  • Modernist theory
  • Reductionist theory

    • What is the author's vision of supply chain management (SCM) that replaces the modernist view?

    <p>A contemporary view of SCM</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the author argue that most dominant theories in supply chain management (SCM) promote?

    <p>A global hunt for cheap labor and resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their descriptions according to the text:

    <p>Supply Chain Management (SCM) = Promotes a global hunt for cheap labor and resources Modernist view of SCM = Takes a reductionist and static view on the supply chain Contemporary vision of SCM = &quot;Dancing the supply chain&quot; Supply chains = Vulnerable and harmful systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following concepts with their descriptions from the text:

    <p>Panarchy theory = Used to reinterpret the supply chain as a social-ecological system Supply chains = Operated without much concern for their broader contextual environment Structures and processes of supply chains = Fluid and interwoven with political-economic and planetary phenomena Dominant theories in SCM = Overlook that supply chains have become both vulnerable and harmful systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following views on supply chain management (SCM) with their characteristics:

    <p>Modernist view = Reductionist and static Contemporary vision = Dancing the supply chain Dominant theories = Promote a global hunt for cheap labor and resources Author's perspective = Supply chains are fluid and interwoven with political-economic and planetary phenomena</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms to their definitions according to the article:

    <p>Panarchy theory = Theory the article builds on to reinterpret the supply chain Dancing the Supply Chain = More contemporary vision of supply chain management Modernist view of SCM = Characterized by a reductionist and static view on the supply chain Dominant theories in SCM = Promote a global hunt for cheap labor and resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following descriptions to the corresponding terms in the text:

    <p>Operated without much concern for their broader contextual environment = Supply chains Reinterprets the supply chain as a social–ecological system = Panarchy theory &quot;Dancing the supply chain&quot; = Contemporary vision of SCM Takes a reductionist and static view on the supply chain = Modernist view of SCM</p> Signup and view all the answers

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