By Paulo Mendes
This ebook goals to spot and describe the sensible key parts of call for pushed provide chains, and in line with those elements, develops a established and built-in overview framework that businesses can use to evaluate their present and wanted destiny provide chain states in mild of the Demand pushed provide Chain (DDSC) strategies. one other contribution of the ebook is the based framework constructed to layout a provide chain procedure, with the intention to examine the DDSC overview effects as one of many key inputs, and should help the implementation of the possibilities pointed out in the course of the assessment.
The framework awarded during this publication was once utilized in numerous offer chain operations of an international CPG corporation to validate the method and formalize an motion plan to permit those operations circulate in the direction of a DDSC. effects convey transparent possibilities to enhance provide chain operation and turn into extra call for driven.
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Assessment of theory building based on the strength of method and the evidence of grounding theory like checking if the researchers followed a careful analytical procedure, that the evidence support the theory. • Strong theory-building research should result in new insights. Theory building which simply replicates past theory is, at best, a modest contribution. Thus, a strong theory building study presents new, perhaps framebreaking insights. , to solve improvement problems. 3 Main differences between explanatory and design sciences (Van Aken 2004) Description-driven research Prescription-driven research Characteristic programmes programmes Dominant paradigm Explanatory sciences Design sciences Focus Problem focused Solution focused Perspective Observer Player Logic Hindsight Intervention-outcome Typical research Alternative solutions for a class of question Explanation problems Typical research Causal model; quantitative Tested and grounded technological product law rule Nature of research product Algorithm Heuristic Justification Proof Saturated evidence Type of resulting theory Organization theory Management theory consistency, and also to explanatory sciences which has the mission to describe, explain and possibly predict observable phenomena within its field.
It includes cross-sectional and longitudinal studies using questionnaires or structured interviews for data collection, with the intent of generalizing from a sample to a population. , sequential) Qualitative Quantitative Mixed methods Research Methods Questions Data collection Data analysis Interpretation Write-up Validation Fig. 1 Framework for research design (Creswell 2009) Experimental research seeks to determine if a specific treatment influences an outcome. This impact is assessed by providing a specific treatment to one group and withholding it from another and then determining how both groups scored on an outcome.