Douglas K Macbeth Profile

Douglas Macbeth is Professor of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management at the Management School of the University of Southampton in the UK where he is also Deputy Director of the Marine and Maritime Institute. With experience as an engineer in power utilities and production management in consumer durables alongside research and teaching experience in a variety of European and American Universities, he takes a wide view of the need to view businesses as embedded in extended networks and manage accordingly and this is brought to bear in the book.