During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking difference in organizations’ SC performance and improve sustainable operations. Despite its crucial role in responding to SC disruptions, there is a void in the literature on this topic. This book aims to address this gap demonstrating the importance of SC mapping, sustainability in the Industry 4.0 era.

The book explores how SC mapping contributes to sustainability from social, economic, and environmental perspectives, the role of SC mapping in upstream, midstream, and downstream SC sustainability, as well as the role of technology advancement and the impact of blockchain and Industry 4.0 in SC mapping. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited collection features international authors from a diverse range of disciplines including SC management, operations management, technology and innovation management, and sustainability.

The book will be a valuable resource for global scholars, researchers, and upper-level students across operations, SC management, and logistics, as well as engineering and technology management.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking difference in organizations’ SC performance and improve sustainable operations. Despite its crucial role in responding to SC disruptions, there is a void in the literature on this topic. This book aims to address this gap demonstrating the importance of SC mapping, sustainability in the Industry 4.0 era.

The book explores how SC mapping contributes to sustainability from social, economic, and environmental perspectives, the role of SC mapping in upstream, midstream, and downstream SC sustainability, as well as the role of technology advancement and the impact of blockchain and Industry 4.0 in SC mapping. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited collection features international authors from a diverse range of disciplines including SC management, operations management, technology and innovation management, and sustainability.

The book will be a valuable resource for global scholars, researchers, and upper-level students across operations, SC management, and logistics, as well as engineering and technology management.

Digital supply chain management (DSCM) is emerging as one of the key innovative strategies ready to transform how supply chains are managed. By enabling a faster and more cost-efficient delivery of products, improving products’ traceability, enhancing coordination between supply chain entities, and helping with access to financing, DSCM is a powerful tool to address the supply chain issues of sustainability, traceability, verifiability and resilience.

Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik and Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan provide a comprehensive explanation of the digital technologies driving supply chain management.

Detailing the diverse aspects of digitalization in supply chain management, Digital Supply Chain Management helps business managers harness the cutting edge, guiding those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path whilst informing top-level managers who have their eye on the future.

Digital supply chain management (DSCM) is emerging as one of the key innovative strategies ready to transform how supply chains are managed. By enabling a faster and more cost-efficient delivery of products, improving products’ traceability, enhancing coordination between supply chain entities, and helping with access to financing, DSCM is a powerful tool to address the supply chain issues of sustainability, traceability, verifiability and resilience.

Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik and Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan provide a comprehensive explanation of the digital technologies driving supply chain management.

Detailing the diverse aspects of digitalization in supply chain management, Digital Supply Chain Management helps business managers harness the cutting edge, guiding those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path whilst informing top-level managers who have their eye on the future.

This book provides an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications of intellectual capital. Until now, the literature had lacked a comprehensive analysis of intellectual capital (IC) in regard to sustainability, block chain, and other related technologies and virtual environments. This book shows the importance of intellectual capital for contemporary organizations: how it contributes to theories of the firm, how it affects organizational performance, how is it linked with the organizational ambidexterity, how it connects to the technological developments like block chain and digital technologies, and what would be its association with sustainability. Central to our thesis is the systemic nature of intellectual capital in organizations: how intellectual capital interacts with and complements other organizational resources and developments. This book also shows as to how applying the notion of intellectual capital toorganizations requires us to consider how intangible forms of capital differ from more traditional forms, implying the need for a theory of firm that accommodates a concept of dynamic, heterogeneous intellectual capital. Although a lot has been written on IC, this book proves to be the first with scholastic and action-oriented perspective on as to how a firm can manage its IC to create value. This book also demonstrates as to how the subjective aspects of IC can be measured and what can be their strategic implications. A discussion on IC disclosure also appears in the latter part of the book.   In doing so, this book reveals as to how the value creation of today’s businesses is driven by the IC. This book also introduces the readers to the new application of IC and its association with the contemporary disruptive technologies.

This is a book for IC researchers and academicians who want to understand the diverse aspects of IC, for business managers who want to be at the cutting edge, for those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path, and for the top-level managers of the world who have their eye on the future.

This book unravels the multifaceted role of smart supply chain. Taking a holistic approach, it explains how smart supply chain could contribute to the apex supply chain performance parameters like supply chain resilience, sustainability, and visibility. It explains the application of smart supply chain, particularly supply chain digital twin, in mapping the end-to-end supply chains. The book also discusses linkage of smart supply chain with supply chain ambidexterity, a topic not much explored. Further, there is discussion on usage of smart supply chain to employ latest developments like physical Internet, for transportation optimization and so on. It will also explore the role of human factor, relationships and business processes, operationalized as intellectual capital. The book is of interest to supply chain managers, researchers, and academicians looking to understand diverse aspects of smart supply chain. Business leaders who have their eyes on future business managers, and managers who want to be conversant with cutting edge knowledge on the topic, would also find many takeaways in this volume.

The book aims to present a multi-dimensional view on the blockchain-driven supply chain management and its linkage with open innovation, digital technologies, supply chain sustainability, mapping, visibility, and resilience. It offers topic from three important themes: first, what is the architecture and design of BCSCM and how does it differ from the conventional supply chains; second, performance impacts of BCSCM; and third, implementation challenges and role of leadership. Hence, the book provides a diverse perspective on the understanding, architecture, impacts, and implementation of blockchain-driven supply chain management. It shows the importance of blockchain-driven supply chain management for contemporary organizations: how it contributes to supply chain traceability, resilience, and sustainability.

The book also demonstrates as to how adoption of blockchain-driven supply chain management requires to consider intangible forms of intellectual capital (human, processes,and relationships), which is different from more traditional forms. This is a book for supply chain management practitioners, researchers, and academician who want to understand the role of blockchain in supply chain, for supply chain managers who want to be at the cutting edge by adopting the BCSCM, for those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path, and for the top-level managers of the world who have their eye on the future.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking difference in organizations’ SC performance and improve sustainable operations. Despite its crucial role in responding to SC disruptions, there is a void in the literature on this topic. This book aims to address this gap demonstrating the importance of SC mapping, sustainability in the Industry 4.0 era.

The book explores how SC mapping contributes to sustainability from social, economic, and environmental perspectives, the role of SC mapping in upstream, midstream, and downstream SC sustainability, as well as the role of technology advancement and the impact of blockchain and Industry 4.0 in SC mapping. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited collection features international authors from a diverse range of disciplines including SC management, operations management, technology and innovation management, and sustainability.

The book will be a valuable resource for global scholars, researchers, and upper-level students across operations, SC management, and logistics, as well as engineering and technology management.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking difference in organizations’ SC performance and improve sustainable operations. Despite its crucial role in responding to SC disruptions, there is a void in the literature on this topic. This book aims to address this gap demonstrating the importance of SC mapping, sustainability in the Industry 4.0 era.

The book explores how SC mapping contributes to sustainability from social, economic, and environmental perspectives, the role of SC mapping in upstream, midstream, and downstream SC sustainability, as well as the role of technology advancement and the impact of blockchain and Industry 4.0 in SC mapping. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited collection features international authors from a diverse range of disciplines including SC management, operations management, technology and innovation management, and sustainability.

The book will be a valuable resource for global scholars, researchers, and upper-level students across operations, SC management, and logistics, as well as engineering and technology management.

Digital supply chain management (DSCM) is emerging as one of the key innovative strategies ready to transform how supply chains are managed. By enabling a faster and more cost-efficient delivery of products, improving products’ traceability, enhancing coordination between supply chain entities, and helping with access to financing, DSCM is a powerful tool to address the supply chain issues of sustainability, traceability, verifiability and resilience.

Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik and Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan provide a comprehensive explanation of the digital technologies driving supply chain management.

Detailing the diverse aspects of digitalization in supply chain management, Digital Supply Chain Management helps business managers harness the cutting edge, guiding those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path whilst informing top-level managers who have their eye on the future.

Digital supply chain management (DSCM) is emerging as one of the key innovative strategies ready to transform how supply chains are managed. By enabling a faster and more cost-efficient delivery of products, improving products’ traceability, enhancing coordination between supply chain entities, and helping with access to financing, DSCM is a powerful tool to address the supply chain issues of sustainability, traceability, verifiability and resilience.

Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik and Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan provide a comprehensive explanation of the digital technologies driving supply chain management.

Detailing the diverse aspects of digitalization in supply chain management, Digital Supply Chain Management helps business managers harness the cutting edge, guiding those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path whilst informing top-level managers who have their eye on the future.

This book provides an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications of intellectual capital. Until now, the literature had lacked a comprehensive analysis of intellectual capital (IC) in regard to sustainability, block chain, and other related technologies and virtual environments. This book shows the importance of intellectual capital for contemporary organizations: how it contributes to theories of the firm, how it affects organizational performance, how is it linked with the organizational ambidexterity, how it connects to the technological developments like block chain and digital technologies, and what would be its association with sustainability. Central to our thesis is the systemic nature of intellectual capital in organizations: how intellectual capital interacts with and complements other organizational resources and developments. This book also shows as to how applying the notion of intellectual capital toorganizations requires us to consider how intangible forms of capital differ from more traditional forms, implying the need for a theory of firm that accommodates a concept of dynamic, heterogeneous intellectual capital. Although a lot has been written on IC, this book proves to be the first with scholastic and action-oriented perspective on as to how a firm can manage its IC to create value. This book also demonstrates as to how the subjective aspects of IC can be measured and what can be their strategic implications. A discussion on IC disclosure also appears in the latter part of the book.   In doing so, this book reveals as to how the value creation of today’s businesses is driven by the IC. This book also introduces the readers to the new application of IC and its association with the contemporary disruptive technologies.

This is a book for IC researchers and academicians who want to understand the diverse aspects of IC, for business managers who want to be at the cutting edge, for those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path, and for the top-level managers of the world who have their eye on the future.

This book unravels the multifaceted role of smart supply chain. Taking a holistic approach, it explains how smart supply chain could contribute to the apex supply chain performance parameters like supply chain resilience, sustainability, and visibility. It explains the application of smart supply chain, particularly supply chain digital twin, in mapping the end-to-end supply chains. The book also discusses linkage of smart supply chain with supply chain ambidexterity, a topic not much explored. Further, there is discussion on usage of smart supply chain to employ latest developments like physical Internet, for transportation optimization and so on. It will also explore the role of human factor, relationships and business processes, operationalized as intellectual capital. The book is of interest to supply chain managers, researchers, and academicians looking to understand diverse aspects of smart supply chain. Business leaders who have their eyes on future business managers, and managers who want to be conversant with cutting edge knowledge on the topic, would also find many takeaways in this volume.

The book aims to present a multi-dimensional view on the blockchain-driven supply chain management and its linkage with open innovation, digital technologies, supply chain sustainability, mapping, visibility, and resilience. It offers topic from three important themes: first, what is the architecture and design of BCSCM and how does it differ from the conventional supply chains; second, performance impacts of BCSCM; and third, implementation challenges and role of leadership. Hence, the book provides a diverse perspective on the understanding, architecture, impacts, and implementation of blockchain-driven supply chain management. It shows the importance of blockchain-driven supply chain management for contemporary organizations: how it contributes to supply chain traceability, resilience, and sustainability.

The book also demonstrates as to how adoption of blockchain-driven supply chain management requires to consider intangible forms of intellectual capital (human, processes,and relationships), which is different from more traditional forms. This is a book for supply chain management practitioners, researchers, and academician who want to understand the role of blockchain in supply chain, for supply chain managers who want to be at the cutting edge by adopting the BCSCM, for those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path, and for the top-level managers of the world who have their eye on the future.