Download or read book Essays on Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets written by Micha Hirschinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micha Hirschinger emphasizes the importance of foresight on logistics and institutions in particular for effective decision making as distinct research in this context is limited. He applies a systematic and transferable multi-method approach based on Delphi studies and fuzzy c-means cluster analysis to develop profound scenarios for the future. He uses the relevance of information-processing requirements to investigate whether centralization of purchasing organizations increases functional efficiency. The author finally shows how a sharing-economy business model transfer could help to overcome the limited access to factor markets, especially trucks, at the base of the pyramid.