Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition

The e-business environment has brought about a new kind of competition. Instead of the traditional mode of firms competing against firms, we now have supply chains competing against supply chains. Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition examines this new business landscape in background, touching on major issues of the supply chain, and providing readers the assets to obtain that important competitive advantage. Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition contributes to this interesting global phenomenon by collecting well-researched works that illuminate in SCM issues in the e-business environment.

William Yu Chung Wang, BS, MBA, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment, University of South Australia, Australia. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. With the experiences of being a telecom and computer engineer, he has been supervising research groups in Australia and Taiwan in the field of B2B integration, interfirm dynamics, and information strategy. He also plays the role as a consultant of industrial projects for BRP, global logistics management, and SCM. He has published numerous papers and book chapters in many international publications.

Michael S. H. Heng is a professor of information systems at Universitas 21 Global, Singapore, and a visiting professor at Fudan University, University of South Australia and National University of Singapore. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and a co-chair of the program committee of Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. His publications have appeared in Information and Organization, Information Systems Journal, Information & Management, and numerous other publications.

Patrick Y. K. Chau is a professor of information systems at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has published papers in journals like MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, and others.