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Global Supply Chains: Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework ? Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence: ?EPIC? Structure ... Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence
Global Supply Chains Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework Economy Politics Infrastructure and Competence EPIC Structure Politics Infrastructure and Competence Author:Philippe-Pierre Dornier, Kenneth Petersen, Mandyam Srinivasan, Theodore Stank This timely guide reviews key strategic environmental characteristics in eight global regions to aid managers in making global supply chain management decisions. Global Supply Chain Management Assessment defines and explains the conceptual dimensions of GSCM and identifies the characteristics of those dimensions in eight distinct regions of the ... more »world, including: North America South America Western Europe Central and Eastern Europe The Middle East East Asia South Asia Africa The book provides a new framework developed by the authors to measure and assess the level of maturity of a geographic region. The framework, which is denoted as the EPIC dimensional analysis, measures and assesses the maturity of geographic regions according to its level of economic, political, infrastructural, and cultural/competency activity and provides guidance on how to assess a supply chain in the region based on its position along the EPIC dimensions. Contributors from each region are featured in the book Introduces the EPIC dimensional analysis for measuring and assessing the maturity of each geographical region according to its level of economic, political, infrastructural, and cultural/competency activities Uses case studies to trace the path of a product from raw material to finished product, such as rubber from a tree in Brazil becoming a tire on a car Affiliated web site with matrix for each region, annual white papers, and more Eliminates the need for a company to send talent to a region before understanding the challenges it may present« less