Research On The Embeddedness Structure And The Cooperative Relationship Of Supply Chain

Economical historian Karl Polanyi pointed out: " The humanity economy is embedded and tangled into the economical and the non-economical systems. The contained non-economical systems are very important ", "The economy as one process, is embedded into the systems of economy and the non-economy". This has the important instruction significance for us to research the supply chain management.With the rapid development of IT, the diversification of consumer's demands and the complexity of the competition environment day by day, enterprises are unable alone to face the intense market competition more and more. So they begin to organize the supply chain and strengthen the supply chain management.Supply chain is the network of supply and demand consisted of the supplier, the manufacturer, the seller, the retailer and the end user. It is one kind of network organization, which the transaction between the two nodal enterprises from head to foot shows mainly a relational transaction. Therefore, it is more comprehensive to research supply chain not only from the economical technical angle but also from the social angle ------the view of embededdness.This dissertation has 11 chapters.Chapter 1 is the introduction. This chapter answer the question "why the author choose to study this topic", through literature review of study from domestic and foreign researchers, puts forth the main contains, methodologies of this dissertation, gives the questions to be resolved, and innovation of the dissertation.Chapter 2 is the research rationale of supply chain and embededdness. This part mainly introductions the concept theories of supply chain and relational transaction, embededdness and embededdness structure, relational contract and classical contract, transaction characteristic and governance structure, network organization and strategic alliance and so on. They are the rationale to the several chapters behind this dissertation.Chapter 3 is the concept, the charactics, the model and the integrant of the embededdness structure of supply chain. This part describes of the concept, the model and the integrant of the embededdness structure of supply chain. The embededdness structure of supply chain includes the relational embeddedness and the non-relational embeddedness, and the integrant includes the exterior environment factors, the economic factors and the non-economic factors.Chapter 4 is the interaction conformity of the embeddedness structure of supply chain. This part sets forth the implication, the characteristics, the process, the mechanism, the mechanism system, the essence as well as the effects of the interaction conformity of the embeddedness structure of supply chain. The five mechanism system-made concrete contents of the interaction conformity are arranged to discuss specially in from Chapter 5 to Chapter 9.Chapter 5 is the trust mechanism of the embeddedness structure of supply chain. This part introduces the trust definition and the integrant, and on the foundation of the analysis the embeddedness of trust, sets forth the characteristic, the function, the type as well as the production mechanism and the maintenance & deepening mechanism between the enterprises in supply chain.Chapter 6 is the communication mechanism of the embeddedness structure of supply chain. This part first introduces communication general concept, the essential factors, the process and the type, then sets forth the implication, the characteristic, the type, the channel, the function and the influence factors between the enterprises in supply chain, finally discusses specially the establishment procedure as well as the conflict and its processing way of the communication mechanism of the embeddedness structure of supply chain.Chapter 7 is the coordinated mechanism of the embeddedness structure of supply chain. This part introduces the coordination meaning and the essential factors to influence the coordination between enterprises in supply chain, sets forth the establishment pattern, structural model and the movement mechanism and effect of the coordinated mechanism between enterprises in supply chain.Chapter 8 is the study mechanism of the embeddedness structure of supply chain. This part first introduces the background significance and the definition of organization study, then sets forth the connotation, the characteristic and the function of the study in supply chain, finally discusses emphatically the mechanism of the study and the production, sharing and shift of knowledge, the form of the study mechanism and the barrier of the study and the knowledge shift between the enterprises as well as the enterprise and its overcome mechanism in supply chain.Chapter 9 is the integrated mechanism of the embeddedness structure of supply chain. This part first discusses the integration mechanism from the goal integration, the information integration, the resources integration, the knowledge integration, the cultural integration and the process integration separately in supply chain, finally points out the relations of these six integrations. By these integrations, the whole supply chain can be integrated and forms one integrated supply chain.Chapter 10 is the evolution of the relationship between enterprises in the embeddedness structure of supply chain. This part first introduces the pattern of the relationship between enterprises, then sets forth the influence of the interaction conformity to the relationship between enterprises in supply chain, the implication the strategic partner relationship in supply chain, each kind of theory explains on it and differences between it and the traditional enterprise relationship, finally analyzes the achievements and the risk to establish the supply chain strategic partner relationship from the theory and the real diagnosis angles.Chapter 11 is the Summary and the expectation of the dissertation. This part gives a summary and innovations of this dissertation, and points out the future study directions.