Essays on Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets

<p>Micha Hirschinger emphasizes the importance of foresight on logisticsand institutions in particular for effective decision making as distinctresearch in this context is limited. He applies a systematic and transferablemulti-method approach based on Delphi studies and fuzzy c-means cluster analysisto develop profound scenarios for the future. He uses the relevance ofinformation-processing requirements to investigate whether centralization ofpurchasing organizations increases functional efficiency. The author finallyshows how a sharing-economy business model transfer could help to overcome thelimited access to factor markets, especially trucks, at the base of thepyramid.</p>