International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 40 Issue 4

Research opportunities for a more resilient post-COVID-19 supply chain – closing the gap between research findings and industry practice

Remko van Hoek

The COVID-19 crisis has caused major supply chain disruptions, and these can be traced back to basic supply chain risks that have previously been well identified in literature…

Revisiting the unholy alliance of health-care operations: payor–provider integration of occupational health services

Antti Peltokorpi, Juri Matinheikki, Jere Lehtinen, Risto Rajala

To investigate the effects of payor–provider integration on the operational performance of health service provision. The research explores whether integration governs agency…

Effect of supply chain strategic collaboration announcements on shareholder value: an empirical investigation from China

Weihua Liu, Wanying Wei, Cheng Si, Dong Xie, Lujie Chen

This study empirically examines the impact of announcements on supply chain strategic collaboration (SCSC) on companies' shareholder value.

The interplay of governance mechanisms in supply chain collaboration and performance in buyer–supplier dyads: substitutes or complements

Ki-Hyun Um, Jae-Young Oh

This study seeks: (1) to identify whether the form of governance adopted (relational or contractual) drives suppliers' and buyers' collaboration in the same way; (2) to examine if…

An unstructured big data approach for country logistics performance assessment in global supply chains

Aseem Kinra, Kim Sundtoft Hald, Raghava Rao Mukkamala, Ravi Vatrapu

The purpose of this study is to explore the potential for the development of a country logistics performance assessment approach based upon textual big data analytics.

Service delivery system design for risk management in sharing-based product service systems: a customer-oriented approach

Simon Hazée, Yves Van Vaerenbergh, Cécile Delcourt, Sertan Kabadayi

Organizations increasingly develop and offer sharing services enabled by means of product-service systems (PSS). However, organizations offering sharing-based PSS face a unique…

Smart maintenance: instrument development, content validation and an empirical pilot

Jon Bokrantz, Anders Skoogh, Cecilia Berlin, Johan Stahre

Scholars and practitioners within industrial maintenance management are focused on understanding antecedents, correlates and consequences of the concept of “Smart Maintenance,”…