Collaboration in supply chains: review, analysis and literature gaps

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop a systematic review of the literature between the years 2005 and 2015 with the purpose to show an overview of the research and identify opportunities for further research. A bibliometric analysis to measure parameters of the selected articles was developed, such as frequency of journals most cited works, years of publications, main terms of titles and keywords. Subsequently, an analysis was made of the content of the work. The results showed that most research evaluated collaboration to backwards of the supply chain, there was a predominance of studies strongly linked to industrial chains, most of the empirical research adopted the survey as a method and few studies  evaluated the collaboration through multi-criteria methodologies. Finally, the present study identifies areas that need further research.