Seminar: Supply Chain Network Data - A New Frontier in Supply Chain Management Research
20 Jan 2017
11:00am - 12:30pm
Room 7-207, 7/F, Academic 3

Supply chain networks connect products and services with customers, production with consumption, supply with demand. Supply chain networks channel physical, information and financial flows among many self-interested independent decision makers. The complexity and opacity of the supply chain network inhibits empirical research on understanding of the impact of management decisions concerning the boundaries of the firm and its relationships with suppliers and customers. Since supply chain data becomes available recently (Revere from 2004, Bloomberg from 2008), it is now possible to investigate the supply chain decisions made by firms and their impacts in return. In this talk, I will comprehensively introduce all currently available datasets on supply chains. I will use my recent empirical project about the credit shock impact on supply chains to demonstrate how to leverage such a dataset. I will also mention the scholars in OM that are interested in this direction, as well as working and accepted papers using such datasets.