Decision Sciences Journal Volume 29, Number 3 Summer 1998 Research Focus: Supply Chain Linkages Guest Editors: Vincent A. Mabert and M. A. Venkataramanan Special Research Focus on Supply Chain Linkages: Challenges for Design and Management in the 21st Century Vincent A. Mabert and M. A. Venkataramanan (pp. 537 - 552) Success Factors in Strategic Supplier Alliances: The Buying Company Perspective Robert M. Monczka, Kenneth J. Petersen, Robert B. Handfield, and Gary L. Ragatz (pp. 553 - 577) Causal Linkages in Supply Chain Management: An Exploratory Study of North American Manufacturing Firms Ram Narasimhan and Jayanth Jayaram (pp. 579 - 605) Modeling Supply Chain Dynamics: A Multiagent Approach Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Stephen F. Smith, and Norman M. Sadeh (pp. 607 - 632) Simulation Analysis of a Manufacturing Supply Chain Sita Bhaskaran (pp. 633 - 657) Interorganizational Determinants of Environmental Purchasing: Initial Evidence from the Consumer Products Industries Craig R. Carter and Joseph R. Carter (pp. 659 - 684) Designing Distribution Systems to Support Vendor Strategies in Supply Chain Management E. Powell Robinson, Jr. and Ronald K. Satterfield (pp. 685 - 706) Reconfiguring the Supply Network Using Current Performance Data Anthony Ross, M. A. Venkataramanan, and Kathryn W. Ernstberger (pp. 707 - 728) An Efficient Heuristic Procedure for Practical-sized Capacitated Warehouse Design and Management Vaidyanathan Jayaraman (pp. 729 - 745) Influencing a Supplier Using Delivery Windows: Its Effect on the Variance of Flow Time and On-time Delivery John R. Grout (pp. 747 - 764)

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