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Supply chain management has a short history, as the field emerged only in the 1980s. Throughout the following decade, case studies started to appear, and the subject area quickly developed thereafter. These studies are vital for the discipline’s development, as most of the real-life situations discussed are unique and contain details that mean remedies cannot be the same in every case: the situation is the same in medicine with rare or previously unknown diseases. The boundary between theory and case study environment is inexact and rather blurred, and interaction between the two areas is expected. The same applies to the role of researcher in these small observation studies. This research examines supply chain case studies that were published in leading journals between 1995 and 2015 (1699 manuscripts in total), using Publish or Perish (Google Scholar) citations.
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Hilmola, OP. (2018). Introduction. In: Supply Chain Cases. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71658-9_1
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