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Performance Measurement for Interorganisational Collaborations of SMEs

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Dynamics in Logistics

Abstract

In recent years the formation rate of inter-firm collaborations has dramatically increased. Despite the growing importance of inter-firm relationships, the success rate remains low. The main problem is that companies do not employ systems or frameworks to measure or manage collaborations holistically. Thus, we present in this chapter a novel performance measurement system for interorganisational collaborations of small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Notes

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    For the definition of specific characteristics refer to e.g. Stadtler and Kilger (2002), Dussauge and Garrette (1999), Ireland et al. (2002).

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    For the specific aspects refer to Gulati (1998), Bititci et al. (2003), Schuh et al. (2008) Middleton-Kelly (2003); Andriani and Passiante (2004); Roetzheim (2007), Klein and Adelman (2005), Pfeffer and Salancik (1978), Banff (2003), Thompson (1967), Das and Teng (2001), Nkhata et al. (2008), McCutchen et al. (2008)

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Uygun, Y., Schmidt, A. (2011). Performance Measurement for Interorganisational Collaborations of SMEs. In: Kreowski, HJ., Scholz-Reiter, B., Thoben, KD. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11996-5_16

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