Table of contents - Special Issue: Supply Chain Management in Health Services
Guest Editors: Jan de Vries, Robbert Huijsman
Supply chain management in health services: an overview
Jan de Vries, Robbert HuijsmanThis paper seeks to concentrate on the question whether any parallels can be found between the industrial sector and health care services with respect to the developments that…
Supply chain management practices for improving patient‐oriented care
Bert Meijboom, Saskia Schmidt‐Bakx, Gert WestertThe purpose of the present paper is to discuss organisational problems that occur in situations that are complex because the treatment of patients requires input from multiple…
Developing lean and agile health care supply chains
Håkan Aronsson, Mats Abrahamsson, Karen SpensThe objective of this exploratory paper is to find out what is important to consider when developing a supply chain in health care, what is required in order to establish a supply…
Collaborative implementation of e‐business processes within the health‐care supply chain: the Monash Pharmacy Project
Vikram Bhakoo, Caroline ChanThe purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the implementation of e‐business processes in the procurement area of a healthcare supply chain when multiple stakeholders…
Processes, episodes and events in health service supply chains
Paul Lillrank, Johan Groop, Julia VenesmaaThe purpose of this paper is to explore different units of analysis applicable to the analysis of healthcare service supply chains.
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1359-8546Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Beverly Wagner