Supply Chains in Developing Countries
A special issue of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2021) | Viewed by 4142
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How consumers, businesses, and institutions get the supplies they need is vital to any economy, but especially in developing countries, where living standards are often low, infrastructure and legal frameworks weak, and economic prospects for citizens limited. Thus, it is important to understand how supply chains operate in these countries, as well as how these supply chains can support improvements in standards of living, commercial opportunities, and industrial capabilities for developing countries. Furthermore, the universe of “developing countries” is itself diverse. Current levels of development can be very different in South Asia vs. Africa, or Latin America vs. the Middle East. In this Special Issue, we invite contributions serving large, dispersed, rural populations but also the increasingly congested cities whose populations can dwarf those of the developed world. Our hope is that these articles and discussions will open up new connections between scholars in both the developed and developing world and span disciplines from logistics/supply management to production/operations to economic geography/sociology. Such cross-fertilization will perhaps lead to innovative solutions to serve what is now the majority of the world’s people. In this Special Issue, we ask you to share your analyses and prescriptions for supply chains in the developing country context, including both domestic and international supply chains.
Dr. Maltz Arnold
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Supply chain management
- Developing countries
- Economic development
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