Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains: A Guide for Innovation and Growth

Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains focuses on unexplored opportunities for growth and innovation, and shows how entrepreneurial supply chains can enhance the value of a business regardless of its form. Dr. Lee takes the reader through the entire process of opportunity identification, due diligence, writing the business plan, managing risks, integrating the entrepreneurial supply chain venture, and reaping the payoff.

Key Features

Shows how leading companies such as Cisco, 3M, and Corning developed entrepreneurial supply chains and details the value gained from them

Discusses how the SCOR model provides a framework for identifying entrepreneurial supply chain opportunities

Uses a single case throughout to show how one company employed the ideas, concepts, tools, and techniques presented in the text

Covers various practical and legal forms of entrepreneurial relationships and explains the different ways they can be used

Illustrates how to develop entrepreneurial supply chain training and education programs

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