A Separation between Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Governance

Abstract

Governance and management are commonly debated at firm’s level as two inter-related concepts. As supply chains and networks of firms tend to become the most important players of the economic world, one question addressed within this article is whether at supply chain level these two concepts have specific and different meanings. A theoretical review is performed. The main conclusion is that a real differentiation has not been yet performed, as long as the interest for supply chain governance between supply chain practitioners and researchers is very low.

Keywords

• supply chain management
• supply chain governance
• business networks