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Supply Chain Management in Latin America

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This chapter aims to present issues on supply chain management in Latin America. To do so, we evaluate the body of literature and we identified 34 studies from which we collected information about: country in which the research was carried out, cooperation (Universities and authors), methodology used, and sector in which the research was performed. Finally, the main focus, results, challenges, and concerns about SCM are presented, along with a suggestion of future research, so that the theme supply chain management in Latin America can develop.

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  1. NEOMA Business School, Paris, France

    Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour

  2. Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Três Lagoas, MS, Brazil

    Adriano Alves Teixeira

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Jabbour, C.J.C., Teixeira, A.A. (2024). Supply Chain Management in Latin America. In: Sarkis, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Supply Chain Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19884-7_85

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