Toward the Theory of the Supply Chain
指出供应链管理学科缺乏对管理对象本身的理论，即供应链理论，并采用概念理论构建方法提出关于供应链结构和边界的基本前提，为后续理论发展奠定基础。
As our discipline has matured, we have begun to develop theories of supply chain management . However, we submit that a major omission of theory development in the supply chain management discipline is that we have failed to develop a theory of what we are managing—a theory of the supply chain. Using a conceptual theory building approach, we introduce foundational premises about the structure and boundary of the supply chain, which can serve as the basis for much needed, additional development of the theory of the supply chain.