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Supply Chain Management

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What is the current state of Supply Chain Management (SCM)?

SCM is a well-established discipline with clear content, theories, and methods.

SCM is a discipline that is not recognized by academicians and practitioners.

SCM is a discipline that is grounded in the development of earlier disciplines.

SCM is an emerging discipline with uncertainty and lack of focus. (correct)

What does the author suggest as a way to understand the likely development of SCM?

By disregarding the uncertainties and lack of focus in SCM.

By applying a systemic perspective that focuses on the dynamics of relationships. (correct)

By ignoring the development of earlier disciplines.

By relying solely on existing disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and business.

What do Larson and Halldorsson note about SCM?

SCM is a well-established discipline with clear content, theories, and methods.

SCM represents something new and relatively amorphous. (correct)

SCM is grounded in the development of earlier disciplines.

SCM lacks disciplinary focus in terms of content, central theories, and methods.

What does Kauffman note about SCM?

SCM lacks disciplinary focus in terms of content, central theories, and methods. Signup and view all the answers

How did disciplines in the past develop?

By extending ideas and methods from existing disciplines to yield productive insights into new phenomena outside those disciplines. Signup and view all the answers

History often portrays individuals as working alone and struggling against the wisdom of the times in order to

Obscure the collaborative nature of advancement Signup and view all the answers

What is one consequence of the fixation on heroes in history, according to the text?

Limited assessment of the past Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an example of an event influenced by borrowed thinking?

Creation of heroes Signup and view all the answers

What is one way in which the fixation on heroes in history limits our search for solutions?

By restricting assessment of the past Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an example of a venerable icon with personal flaws?

Abraham Lincoln Signup and view all the answers