Entrepreneurial management of project supply chain – a model approach

Jarosław Korpysa,Marcin Halicki,Agnieszka Lopatka

doi:10.21511/ppm.18(3).2020.18

Abstract

The paper’s principal purpose is to present the original concept of the project supply chain’s entrepreneurial management. Based on the literature on the subject, one defines the entrepreneurial management concept showing the influence of entrepreneurial management on company operation. Moreover, the paper also outlines the most important concepts of the project supply chain and presents the functioning scheme. Theoretical considerations concerning contemporary theories of entrepreneurial management and project supply chain are the prelude to presenting the concept of entrepreneurial management. The presented approach can be found helpful for the effective management of the project supply chain, which has not yet been thoroughly defined. It should be mentioned that the designed model of the entrepreneurial supply chain management is an original proposal for the paradigm of project supply chains. Both in a classical and project supply chain, a significant role is given to the flow of material resources between the individual chain components. It determines that the project supply chain is mainly driven by the need for its members’ value increase. It was explained that regarding entrepreneurial competences, knowledge can be transferred to other organizations in the whole supply chain. It was also mentioned that the project supply chain’s entrepreneurial management takes into account the flexibility manifesting itself through the establishment of agile project teams, and by focusing on human relationships. It is the basis for the presented concept of the entrepreneurial management model of the project supply chain. AcknowledgmentThe project is financed within the framework of the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education under the name “Regional Excellence Initiative” in the years 2019–2022; project number 001/RID/2018/19; the amount of financing PLN 10,684,000.00.

Highlights

The supply chain’s essence has been an important and interesting research topic for many years in the literature
The paper presents a new approach to entrepreneurial management in the project supply chain area, which is not found in the literature
The most important aspects of entrepreneurial management and project supply chain are shown as a basis for considerations because these two areas’ tangent points are not described in this literature

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The supply chain’s essence has been an important and interesting research topic for many years in the literature. They described en- that thanks to entrepreneurship, understood as trepreneurial capacity as creative decision-making recognizing and creating opportunities connected in an organization while facing uncertainty about with strategic management, an organization can the use of opportunities They stressed that in the convert resources and competencies into goods process of taking advantage of opportunities, it was and services and add new value to the organization important to focus on encouraging employees and its environment (Zbierowski, 2016). It delays and disruptions in the flow of resources is necessary to implement effective management and goods It becomes the actor with methods based on project teams oriented towards the strongest impact on the composition of the taking full advantage of entrepreneurial opportu- whole supply chain. The value-added by the individual supply chain elements to the product expected by the custom-

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