Factors affecting collaboration in supply chain: A literature Review

In this paper 69 randomly selected research papers published in the refereed journals in the area of supply chain collaboration has been reviewed. The papers are classified based on the year in which they published, based on specific countries, the journal in which they published, specific industry type, and finally based on research methodology. Based on the analysis of reviewed papers a total number of 28 factors affecting supply chain collaboration have been identified. Supply chain information sharing found to be highly talked factors for effective supply chain collaboration, therefore the papers further analyzed in the context of the role of information sharing in supply chain collaboration. The discussion, conclusions and future research directions have also been provided in this paper. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativocommons.org/licenscs/hy-nc-nd/3.0/).