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Mapping industrial systems - a supply network perspective on enabling technologies, processes and actors

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Srai, Jagjit Singh 

Abstract

This paper develops a multi-layered multi-stage mapping approach to explore the characteristics of emerging industry supply networks (EI SNs), and how enabling production technologies and supply chain processes are supported by institutional, industrial and supply network actors. The mapping methodology involves the systematic capture of material transformations, enabling product and process technologies, and the actors, both institutional and industrial that might facilitate industrial development. A key research challenge was to extend traditional methods of SN mapping and value chain analysis that typically adopt a narrow focal firm perspective of a firm's supply network, to also include key institutional, and other industrial system actors that form part of the wider industrial ecosystem. An industrial ecosystem mapping methodology was therefore developed that integrates and extends value chain analysis with SN configuration mapping, applied to a broader industrial systems context. The methodology is demonstrated in selected EI sectors to demonstrate the utility of the approach.

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Keywords

4014 Manufacturing Engineering, 40 Engineering, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour

Journal Title

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management

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Journal ISSN

1368-2148
1741-5195

Volume Title

31

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I033459/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K02888X/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K014889/1)
Birmingham City Council (35708-233529)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council