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Health Care Matters: Supply Chains In and Of the Health Sector
Author(s) -
Abdulsalam Yousef,
Gopalakrishnan Mohan,
Maltz Arnold,
Schneller Eugene
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of business logistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2158-1592
pISSN - 0735-3766
DOI - 10.1111/jbl.12111
Subject(s) - supply chain , business , health care , supply chain management , quality (philosophy) , marketing , industrial organization , economic growth , economics , philosophy , epistemology
Providing health care involves a complex enterprise, and the trade‐off between quality and cost has been particularly stark compared to other industries. However, a recent focus on health sector supply networks is now producing significant innovations and improvements. This Special Topic Forum illustrates for the academic and practitioner community how health care supply chain research can benefit from our evolving understanding of supply chains and help push that understanding even further. We classify health care supply chain research into two broad categories—supply chain in health care and supply chain of health care—to set an agenda for future research.