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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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Growing, learning, and connecting: Deciphering the complex relationship between government customer concentration and firm performance J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Ellie C. Falcone, Brian S. Fugate, Matthew A. Waller
The interplay between a firm's customer portfolio and the firm's performance presents a theoretical conundrum that challenges traditional supply chains. In particular, the role of government customer concentration—how extensively a firm incorporates government entities as part of its customer base—emerges as a pivotal factor with the potential to both bolster and burden firm performance. Analyzing
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Theorizing the governance of direct and indirect transactions in multi-tier supply chains J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Sangho Chae, Thomas Y. Choi, Glenn Hoetker
An outsourcing decision does not equate to the outsourcing of a sourcing decision. Many indirect transactions with lower tier suppliers are embedded in transactions with first-tier suppliers. Building on the identification of a transaction as the fundamental unit of analysis, this study proposes that transactions comprise bundles of intertwined direct transactions at the firm level and indirect transactions
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Bridging the innovation gap: Why organizational climate matters for leveraging innovation from supply networks J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Byung-Gak Son, Jörg M. Ries, Nachiappan Subramanian, Seongtae Kim
Recent studies have provided empirical evidence that innovation performance is related to the way a firm is embedded in its supply network, specifically the centrality of its network position, but it remains unclear why some firms can use inputs from suppliers better than others, despite having comparable structural characteristics in their supply networks. Drawing on theories of social networks and
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Unlocking effective coordination: A knowledge-based multilevel perspective on supplier integration into product development J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mehmet Donmez, Anne Norheim-Hansen
Supplier integration into product development (SIPD) provides better access to the specialized knowledge of suppliers but brings about interdependencies and difficulties related to effective coordination. The literature implicitly assumes that coordination in SIPD can be understood and resolved through a single-level view. This article challenges this assumption and argues for simultaneous attention
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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A guided tour through the qualitative research city J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Andreas Wieland, Wendy L. Tate, Tingting Yan
This article argues for the expansion of qualitative research approaches in supply chain management (SCM). By comparing mainstream qualitative approaches to popular Parisian landmarks, it argues that just as tourists can miss the city's essence by visiting only famous sites, SCM researchers limit their understanding by relying solely on conventional approaches. It emphasizes that, much like exploring
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Building an antifragile supply chain: A capability blueprint for resilience and post-disruption growth J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Ethan Nikookar, Mark Stevenson, Mohsen Varsei
Considerable research has focused on how supply chains can better handle disruptions. Consequently, concepts such as supply chain robustness and engineering resilience have emerged, with the dominant emphasis being that disruptions are a wholly bad thing to be avoided or resisted. However, recent discourse in the supply chain disruption management literature, such as the social–ecological interpretation
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Unchaining supply chains: Transformative leaps toward regenerating social–ecological systems J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Jury Gualandris, Oana Branzei, Miriam Wilhelm, Sergio Lazzarini, Martina Linnenluecke, Ralph Hamann, Kevin J. Dooley, Michael L. Barnett, Chien-Ming Chen
The worsening climate, biodiversity, and inequity crises have existential implications. To help resolve these crises, supply chains must move beyond a minimal harm approach. Instead, supply chains must make positive contributions to and harmoniously integrate with the living systems around them. Despite agreement on this urgent need, supply chain management research still lacks a shared roadmap for
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“If only we'd known”: Theory of supply failure under two-sided information asymmetry J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Katri Kauppi, Alistair Brandon-Jones, Erik M. van Raaij, Juri Matinheikki
Supply failures are persistent and costly in contemporary supply chains. Viewed through the lens of agency theory, such failures are potentially caused by hidden actions of the supplier under information asymmetry and goal incongruence in the buyer–supplier relationship (as principal–agent). However, by reversing the direction of information asymmetry, an alternative cause arises: hidden expectations
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Remembering Hal Fearon J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Craig R. Carter
Our friend, progenitor, and visionary in the field of supply management, Harold “Hal” Fearon passed on October 21, 2023. Hal was born in Pittsburg, PA, on April 22, 1931. Hal earned a BA and MBA from Indiana University, served in the US Army, and earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. In 1961, he became an assistant professor at Arizona State University. Hal spent his entire academic career—almost
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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Transforming food supply chains for sustainability J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Miguel I. Gómez, Deishin Lee
Modern food supply chains—infused with scientific and engineering innovations—have made food increasingly more affordable and accessible. Yet there is growing concern about the long-term sustainability of our food system. Over time, the inputs (e.g., water, fertile soil, fossil fuels, and chemicals) and working resources (e.g., land and labor) required for industrial food production and its associated
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Learning to see modern slavery in supply chains through paradoxical sensemaking J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Bruce Pinnington, Joanne Meehan
Mandatory annual reporting, to improve transparency of working conditions in firms' supply chains, is the favored approach of UK policymakers for reducing modern slavery risks in supply chains. Despite legislation and extensive guidance, annual corporate statements are disappointing, providing little evidence of substantive action. So far though, there has been little primary research of managers'
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Sustainability-related transgressions in global supply chains: When do legitimacy spillovers hurt buying firms the most? J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Ivana Mateska, Christian Busse, Andrew P. Kach, Stephan M. Wagner
In a globalized world, buying firms increasingly face criticism regarding sustainability-related transgressions in their supply chains, yet scholarship concerning whether such negative press has any bottom-line effects has only just begun emerging. This study develops and tests theory on the relationship between reported supplier sustainability incidents and the associated stock price impact for the
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-03
No abstract is available for this article.
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From chaos to creation: The mutual causality between supply chain disruption and innovation in low-income markets J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Adegoke Oke, Anand Nair
Low-income markets have unique constraints that trigger the co-evolution of innovation and disruption in such markets. When disruptions occur in global supply chains, and in particular, in low-income markets, they spur innovations that may be necessary to address both existing and potential future disruptions. However, such innovations in turn create disruptions to existing supply chains, and they
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Learning from failure: The implications of product recalls for firm innovation J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 John Ni, Alexander Borisov, Sachin Modi, Xiaowen Huang
Existing research provides contrasting perspectives on the implications of product recalls for firms. While some studies find that recalls represent failures that can motivate firms to innovate, others suggest that the resource-intensive nature of recalls may inhibit firms from innovating. This study presents a theoretical framework that reconciles these two perspectives by proposing an inverted U-shaped
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Artificial intelligence for supply chain management: Disruptive innovation or innovative disruption? J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Christian Hendriksen
This article examines the theoretical and practical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) integration in supply chain management (SCM). AI has developed dramatically in recent years, embodied by the newest generation of large language models (LLMs) that exhibit human-like capabilities in various domains. However, SCM as a discipline seems unprepared for this potential revolution, as existing
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Conceptual wanderlust: How to develop creative supply chain theory with analogies J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Richard L. Gruner, Damien Power
This article guides the development of creative insights in supply chain management. The authors begin by describing analogies' role in advancing organization theory with a focus on image transfers between knowledge domains. While much has been said about the merits of conceptual transfers between domains, much equally remains unknown, particularly about how to deliberately develop creative insights
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Radical innovations as supply chain disruptions? A paradox between change and stability J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Canan Kocabasoglu-Hillmer, Sinéad Roden, Evelyne Vanpoucke, Byung-Gak Son, Marianne W. Lewis
Supply chains withstand multiple tensions, and some of which are paradoxical. Radical product and process innovations bring such tensions to the forefront by disrupting supply chains. Using two illustrations, this article considers the paradoxical tension between change and stability in upstream supply chains, which becomes particularly salient after radical innovation. Furthermore, the article discusses
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-05
No abstract is available for this article.
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In the eye of the beholder: A configurational exploration of perceived deceptive supplier behavior in negotiations J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Katja Woelfl, Lutz Kaufmann, Craig R. Carter
Deceptive behavior in negotiations has been found to be widespread and to have harmful consequences. This study shifts the current research direction on deceptive negotiation behavior by adopting a target's perspective on deception and by using a configurational theorizing approach. Prior studies in supply chain management (SCM) and in other disciplines have studied deceptive negotiation behavior—as
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Wildlife trafficking as a societal supply chain risk: Removing the parasite without damaging the host? J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Sina Duensing, Martin C. Schleper, Christian Busse
Humanity's intrusion into nature—with the objective of selling animals and plants as medicine, food, and tourist attractions—is detrimental not only to biodiversity and the health of ecosystems but also to local communities, global society, and human health. Often, traffickers exploit legal supply chains to secretly move endangered species and protected wildlife to end consumers. Serendipitous discoveries
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Actor–network theory: A novel approach to supply chain management theory development J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Kim Sundtoft Hald, Martin Spring
Supply chain management (SCM) researchers often conduct research using theoretical approaches and ontological assumptions adopted from other areas of management. These approaches and assumptions are valid for some aspects of SCM but may also neglect or be unsuited to other questions and concerns that are distinctive to the SCM domain. Actor–network theory (ANT) provides an alternative perspective that
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-04
No abstract is available for this article.
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Sink, swim, or drift: How social enterprises use supply chain social capital to balance tensions between impact and viability J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Kelsey M. Taylor, Eugenia Rosca
Social enterprises seek solutions for some of society's most pressing problems through the development of commercially viable businesses. However, pursuing social impact is often at odds with financial viability, and social enterprises need to engage with a wide range of stakeholders to access tangible and intangible resources to overcome this tension. Although the current literature emphasizes the
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Using supply chain databases in academic research: A methodological critique J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Giovanna Culot, Matteo Podrecca, Guido Nassimbeni, Guido Orzes, Marco Sartor
This article outlines the main methodological implications of using Bloomberg SPLC, FactSet Supply Chain Relationships, and Mergent Supply Chain for academic purposes. These databases provide secondary data on buyer–supplier relationships that have been publicly disclosed. Despite the growing use of these databases in supply chain management (SCM) research, several potential validity and reliability
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-17
No abstract is available for this article.
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Delaying supplier payments to increase buyer profits J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Jeremy J. Kovach, Morgan Swink, Mauricio Rodriguez
As a means of acquiring trade credit, delaying supplier payments by extending payables (days to payment) offer financial benefits for buyers. However, such extensions may also engender costly supplier retaliation that results in operational disruptions and financial loss. Terms of payment between buyers and suppliers often affect the relationships established between trade partners; thus, changes to
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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Call for papers for the sixth emerging discourse incubator: Radical innovations and extreme disruptions: How could a firm thrive from the coevolution of the two? J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Tingting Yan, Wendy Tate, Mark Pagell
Upon disaster depends good fortune; within good fortune hides disaster.―Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the sixth-century BC sage Laozi The topic for JSCM's sixth emerging discourse incubator (EDI) is to explore innovation–disruption mutual causality by bridging the supply chain innovation and disruption literatures. To compete today, companies often resort to
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Building and testing necessity theories in supply chain management J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jon Bokrantz, Jan Dul
This article contributes to the Emerging Discourse Incubator initiative by presenting how supply chain management scholars can contribute to theory development by means of necessity theories. These are unique theories that inform what level of a concept must be present to achieve a desired level of the outcome. Necessity theories consist of concepts that are necessary but not sufficient conditions
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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Normal misconduct in the prescription opioid supply chain J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Paul F. Skilton, Ednilson Bernardes
How and when do relationships between supply chain stages normalize misconduct? This question is especially relevant to oversupply, a form of normal misconduct peculiar to supply chains. Oversupply occurs when apparently ordinary production and distribution processes deliver products in excess of the safe needs of a market. Although past research sheds light on firm-level processes of organizational
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Buyer abusive behavior and supplier welfare: An empirical study of truck owner–operators J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Seongtae Kim, Sangho Chae, Stephan M. Wagner, Jason W. Miller
The increase in stakeholder pressure for responsible business draws closer public scrutiny when buyers use their power advantage illegitimately to exploit weaker suppliers. In this study, we develop the novel concept of buyer abusive behavior (BAB) and examine BABs exerted by buyers of trucking services against truck owner–operators as their suppliers. This focus is timely given the recent emergence
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From the editors: Introduction to the emerging discourse incubator on the topic of leveraging multiple types of resources within the supply network for competitive advantage J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 David E. Cantor, Tingting Yan, Mark Pagell, Wendy L. Tate
The Journal of Supply Chain Management's 2022 emerging discourse incubator looks to encourage scholars from different disciplines to develop and test new theories to advance our understanding about why and how firms should manage supply network resources for deploying competitive actions and gaining competitive advantage. To start that discourse, this issue offers three invited papers. In “Broadening
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A theoretical model on how firms can leverage political resources to align with supply chain strategy for competitive advantage J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Abhay K. Grover, Martin Dresner
The success of a firm's supply chain strategy depends on resources in the political environment and the supply network in which it operates. If the political environment is not conducive to a firm's supply chain strategy, a firm can either change its supply chain strategy or seek a political environment that is more favorable to its supply chain. This paper examines this second alternative. The st
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It's nothing personal, or is it? Exploring the competitive implications of relational multiplexity in supply chains J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Michael Howe, Yao Jin
Supply chain relationships—both within and between firms—can have significant implications on the firm's ability to successfully compete. Thus, it is increasingly important for supply chain managers to skillfully navigate multiplex relationships to coordinate and manage resources across functions and firms in today's competitive environment. In this work, we describe, in a supply chain context, how
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Issue Information J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-24
No abstract is available for this article.
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Broadening our understanding of interfirm rivalry: A call for research on how supply networks shape competitive behavior and performance J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Christian Hofer, Jordan M. Barker, Laura D'Oria, Jonathan L. Johnson
In their pursuit of greater performance, firms invariably compete with their rivals for customer demand or scarce resources in factor markets. Firms' competitive behavior—the series of competitive actions taken to create or maintain competitive advantage—thus, is a key predictor of profitability and has received much attention in the strategic management literature. The central tenet of this article
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Narratives in supplier negotiations—The interplay of narrative design elements, structural power, and outcomes J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Lutz Kaufmann, Moritz Schreiner, Felix Reimann
In buyer–supplier negotiations, both parties shape the relational and contractual dimensions of their collaboration. Being able to influence the other party during negotiations is therefore vital to improve performance outcomes. This research takes a configurational approach to investigate how buyers can use narratives in different power situations to influence suppliers and improve their relational
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A consumer perspective on managing the consequences of chain liability J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Julia Hartmann, Sebastian Forkmann, Sabine Benoit, Stephan C. Henneberg
Consumers tend to hold a focal firm responsible for its suppliers' unsustainable practices (chain liability), suggesting that firms need effective responses that can mitigate negative consumer reactions. In applying psychological contract theory to investigate recovery efforts related to such chain liability, the current study addresses three broad focal firm responses: Do nothing, choose a nonsubstantive
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Corrigendum J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-03
In Blount and Li (2021), published in Journal of Supply Chain Management Volume 57, Issue 3, the work of Nyaga et al. (2010) was unintentionally misrepresented. The sentence should read as follows: Although relational themes have been exhaustively studied in the supply chain management (SCM) literature (e.g., Nyaga et al., 2010; Peck & Juttner, 2000; Prajogo & Olhager, 2012), there is a paucity of
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Tragedy of the facilitated commons: A multiple-case study of failure in systematic horizontal logistics collaboration J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Henrik Sternberg, Isidro Linan, Günter Prockl, Andreas Norrman
Horizontal logistics collaboration can increase environmental sustainability and reduce shipping costs. Given these benefits—and the fact that few shippers actually opt to collaborate—public sector agencies and industry associations have attempted to sponsor and support the facilitation of horizontal logistics collaboration projects over the past 20 years. The literature, however, has yet to reveal
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Testing the shoulders of giants—Replication research using registered reports J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Thomas F. Gattiker, Julia Hartmann, Finn Wynstra, Mark Pagell, David Cantor, Tingting Yan, Wendy Tate
This editorial encourages supply chain management researchers to conduct and submit replication research for publication consideration to the Journal of Supply Chain Management. The Journal is particularly interested in efforts to replicate both recently published papers that have the potential to change the direction of the discipline and highly influential or “seminal” papers in the supply chain
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Configurational approaches to theory development in supply chain management: Leveraging underexplored opportunities J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 David J. Ketchen, Lutz Kaufmann, Craig R. Carter
In introducing the 2020 Emerging Discourse Incubator, Flynn et al. (2020, https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12227) urged supply chain scholars to leverage fresh approaches in order to develop supply chain-specific theory, including approaches that are underutilized within the discipline. In response, we explain how more examination of configurations—meaningful sets of observations within a sample—can enhance
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Driving cooperative actions: A multimethod study of the temporal duration of unilateral commitments J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 John-Patrick Paraskevas, Stephanie Eckerd, Curtis M. Grimm
Previous research demonstrates numerous benefits of mutual commitments between parties. However, less is understood about the effect of unilateral commitments, when one party (the committer) makes a relationship-specific investment without an established current or forthcoming reciprocal commitment by the other party (the recipient). This problem is particularly relevant in the supply chain management
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Fostering SME supplier-enabled innovation in the supply chain: The role of innovation policy J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Kostas Selviaridis, Martin Spring
Buying organizations collaborate with their suppliers to innovate, and increasingly seek to tap into the innovation potential of technologically adept small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are new to them. Engagement with technology-based SMEs as possible suppliers can be constrained by institutions (e.g., rules, regulations, and norms of conduct) embodied in the buying organization's procurement
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Call for Papers for the Fifth Emerging Discourse Incubator: Leveraging Multiple Types of Resources within the Supply Chain Network for Competitive Advantage J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-18
The purpose of this EDI is to encourage a re-examination of how a firm can leverage resources within its supply chain network to enhance its competitive advantage via both market and non-market based competitive actions. For example, Apple Corporation is able to engage in highly successful product competition with firms such as Samsung because its supply chain network has the needed resources to design
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Mending fences in a buyer–supplier relationship: The role of justice in relationship restoration J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-17 Saif Mir, Misty Blessley, Zach Zacharia, John Aloysius
While the extant literature has examined causes for buyer–supplier relationship dissolution, the restoration of severed buyer–supplier relationships has been overlooked. Drawing on organizational justice theory, our research develops and tests a model of relationship restoration. We examine how the supplier's restoration tactics—acknowledgment, compensation, and operational transparency, influence
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Trust violations in buyer–supplier relationships: Spillovers and the contingent role of governance structures J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Stephanie Eckerd, Sean Handley, Fabrice Lumineau
Buyer–supplier relationships provide ample opportunities for trust violations to occur. Yet the literature on the impact and outcomes of violations of trust in buyer–supplier relationships is underdeveloped. In this study, we report the results from three complementary scenario-based experiments that evaluate the impact of a supplier-induced violation on a buyer's trust in that supplier. We establish
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Introducing synchromodality: One missing link between transportation and supply chain management J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Beatriz Acero, Maria Jesus Saenz, Davide Luzzini
This study develops and tests the synchromodality construct, a novel supply chain concept that integrates the flexible use of different transport modes based on real-time information. At a time when global supply chains are complex and subject to uncertainty, synchromodality has emerged at the forefront of research and practice as a tool to ensure efficient delivery performance and thus supply chain
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Order from chaos: A meta-analysis of supply chain complexity and firm performance J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Melek Akın Ateş, Robert Suurmond, Davide Luzzini, Daniel Krause
Increased globalization, varying customer requirements, extended product lines, uncertainty regarding supplier performance, and myriad related factors make supply chains utterly complex. While previous research indicates that supply chain complexity plays an important role in explaining performance outcomes, the accumulating evidence is ambiguous. Thus, a finer-grained analysis is required. By meta-analyzing
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Asset ownership & incentives to undertake non-contractible actions: The case of trucking J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Jason Miller, Keith Skowronski, John Saldanha
Firms must continually adjust their operations and those of their supply chain members in response to a continually evolving external environment. Many of these modifications are non-contractible in that firms cannot devise and enforce contracts on these behaviors. In this research, we extend property rights theory of the firm (PRTF) by suggesting that small entrepreneurs’ ownership of assets used
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Humanizing Research on Working Conditions in Supply Chains: Building a Path to Decent Work J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Vivek Soundararajan, Miriam M. Wilhelm, Andrew Crane
Research on managing working conditions in the supply chain is currently conducted under the umbrella of “social” sustainability. In this introduction to the 2021 Emerging Discourse Incubator, “Managing Working Conditions in Supply Chains: Towards Decent Work,” we argue that the trajectory of this research may be insufficient for addressing decent work. This is due to four characteristics of the extant
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Designing Better Interventions: Insights from Research on Decent Work J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Peter Hasle, Jan Vang
Based on our experience of carrying out theoretically and practically sound interventions to improve working conditions in global supply chains, we show what makes interventions succeed or fail and what is required to ensure that an intervention’s results are sustainable in the future. Our suggestions are applicable to designing any intervention in supply chain research, but need tailoring to the local
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Heeding supply chain disruption warnings: When and how do cross-functional teams ensure firm robustness? J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-27 Thomas A. de Vries, Gerben S. van der Vegt, Kirstin Scholten, Dirk Pieter van Donk
Firms can adopt several strategies to increase their robustness to potential supply chain (SC) disruptions. One promising strategy is the use of a cross-functional team with representatives from functional departments. Such a team may facilitate sharing relevant information, enabling the firm to respond effectively to SC disruption warnings. However, despite their potential, cross-functional teams
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A Typology of Supply Network Resilience Strategies: Complex Collaborations in a Complex World J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-20 Arash Azadegan, Kevin Dooley
The COVID‐19 pandemic has illustrated the broad and diverse challenges that supply networks face in preparing for and adapting to significant supply and demand disruptions. While much has been written about resilience strategies, few consider resiliency from a network level perspective. In this essay, we explain a typology of resiliency strategies linked to different types of collaboration within and
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Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining in Global Supply Chains: A Research Agenda J. Supply Chain Manag. (IF 10.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Sarosh Kuruvilla, Chunyun Li
This article outlines a research agenda for Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining, two fundamental labor rights essential to the achievement of “Decent Work” for workers in global supply chains. The authors argue that SCM scholars are uniquely positioned to address how workers’ freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in global supply chains could be improved. This stems,