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April 2000
Background Note
HBS Case Collection

Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency

By: V.G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman

Format:Print
| Pages:15

Abstract

Introduces students to the basics of principal-agency theory as it applies to supply chains. Operational problems in supply chains can often be traced to incentive issues. Students and managers lack frameworks to analyze incentive problems in supply chains. This note offers such a framework.

Keywords

Supply Chain Management; Motivation and Incentives; Framework; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Agency Theory

Citation

Narayanan, V.G., and Ananth Raman. "Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-110, April 2000.

About The Authors

V.G. Narayanan

Accounting and Management

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Ananth Raman

Technology and Operations Management

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