Abstract
This chapter reviews the mainstream supply chain and logistics studies, which are mainly firm-focal. After that, it will investigate the operations management of global supply chains, together with global outsourcing as an operational driver towards port-focal supply chain and trade logistics. Finally, it will study the operations management of port-focal supply chain and trade logistics, the concept of environment heterogeneity being identified as an important missing factor in the development of ports, logistics and supply chains.KeywordsSupply ChainSupply Chain ManagementTransaction Cost EconomicAsset SpecificitySafety StockThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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