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Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector (2017)
Journal Article
Trautrims, A., MacCarthy, B. L., & Okade, C. (2017). Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector. International Journal of Production Economics, 194, 228-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.05.008

With an increasing proportion of external spend allocated to a smaller number of suppliers in their supply base, car manufacturers rely more and more on the performance of key supply chain partners outside their own organisational boundaries, particu... Read More about Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector.

Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting (2017)
Journal Article
Chesney, T., Gold, S., & Trautrims, A. (2017). Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting. Decision Support Systems, 95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.01.004

We propose the use of agent based modelling to create a shadow account, that is, a secondary account of a business which is used to audit or verify the primary ac¬count. Such a model could be used to test the claims of industries and businesses. For... Read More about Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting.