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?

<p>SCM lacks disciplinary focus in terms of content, central theories, and methods. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did disciplines in the past develop?

<p>By extending ideas and methods from existing disciplines to yield productive insights into new phenomena outside those disciplines. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Obscure the collaborative nature of advancement (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Limited assessment of the past (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Creation of heroes (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>By restricting assessment of the past (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Abraham Lincoln (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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