INTRODUCTION TO THE THOUGHT LEADER FORUM
介绍了一个思想领袖论坛，该论坛邀请战略管理、市场营销和社会网络领域的专家，讨论跨学科理论如何促进供应链管理研究，并提出了新的研究问题和方法。
The essays in this forum originated from a panel discussion, held during ISM's 20th Annual North American Research Symposium in March 2010. The purpose of that panel was to focus on the cross fertilization of ideas, concepts and theories from disciplines that span and/or are closely aligned with the field of supply chain management. We invited thought leaders from the fields of strategic management (Michael Hitt), marketing (Robert Lusch) and social networks (Joseph Galaskiewicz) to participate in the panel discussion, and to address the following three questions: What theories from your field (strategic management/marketing/social networks) are particularly relevant for interdisciplinary supply chain management research? More specifically, what new/emerging theories are particularly germane? Are there any existing theories from your field that have been overlooked by supply chain management scholars? What supply chain management problems and questions are especially fruitful for study from the (strategic management/marketing/social network) perspective? What are the state-of-the-art empirical methodologies and research design in your field? These three luminaries agreed to encapsulate their thoughts and discussion from the panel into the three invited essays that compose this thought leader forum. The essays that follow call for supply chain management researchers to consider: new paradigms, new theories, fresh perspectives of theories which have already been employed in our field, new research problems and questions, and innovative data sources and empirical methodologies, which can be used to develop propositions, test hypotheses and answer the above questions. I challenge readers to consider the concepts and suggestions that follow, and to then implement these ideas in their own research as we continue to advance supply chain management research.