International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 54 Issue 9

Paradox of GPO size and a hospital’s relative power for purchasing efficiency and the moderating role of system membership

Yoon Hee Kim, Luv Sharma, Daniel M. Walker

Extant research documents the cost benefits of group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to member hospitals, but understudies concerns about the market dominance of a few large GPOs…

Digitisation of franchising supply chain impact on franchisor performance: a longitudinal case study of a coffee retail chain

Ilias Vlachos, Apostolos Zisimopoulos, Giannis T. Tsoulfas

Franchising contributes significantly to national economies but is overlooked in supply chain literature. This study aims to contribute to the franchising and supply chain…

Navigating diversity in supply chain relationships: building trustworthiness through complementary and supplementary fits

Ha Ta, Pritosh Kumar, Adriana Rossiter Hofer, Yao “Henry” Jin

Supply chain (SC) professionals are increasingly working alongside business partners of diverse backgrounds, which has been argued to engender both innovation and creativity but…

Organizational slack and firm performance: do supply chain resilience and organizational ambidexterity matter?

Haiqing Shi, Taiwen Feng

This study aims to distinguish how unabsorbed and absorbed slack affects market and financial performance via proactive and reactive supply chain resilience (SCRES), particularly…

Agri-food supply chain concentration and financial growth: configuration and congruence approaches

Jiawei Xu, Baofeng Zhang, Jianjun Lu, Yubing Yu, Haidong Chen, Jie Zhou

The importance of the agri-food supply chain in both food production and distribution has made the issue of its development a critical concern. Based on configuration theory and…