Developing Structural Dimensions of Service Supply Chain by Analogy with Community Structure
To develop structural dimensions of service supply chain (SSC), this paper reviewed the extant structural dimensions of supply chain/network for reference. Based on the same essence as a complex evolving system, it elucidated SSC can analogize community, and analyzed the similarity between the extant structural dimensions of supply chain/network (i.e. horizontal structure, vertical structure, and horizontal position) and the community structure (i.e. species richness, species abundance, and trophic level). To deal with the defects of the extant structural dimensions of supply chain/network applied to SSC, the paper developed horizontal structure, vertical structure, and value level of SSC by analogy with species richness, relative abundance of species, and trophic level. The value level, with an upstream and downstream viewpoint in demand chain and in supply chain of SSC respectively, extends the value viewpoint from dyadic value tree to value chain/network. The SSC structural dimensions based on value viewpoint, may make it capable for analyzing SSC functional (i.e. value) structure at chain/network level.
Community Structure Service Supply Chain Structural Dimensions Value Chain
Xiao Li Xinjian Gu Zhenggang Liu
Institute of contemporary manufacturing engineering of Zhejiang University,Hangzhou,Zhejiang 310027 Management school of Hangzhou Dianzi University,Hangzhou,Zhejiang 310018 P.R.China
国际会议
2009 6th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management( 2009 第六届服务系统与服务管理国际会议)
厦门
英文
630-635
2009-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）