Supply Chain Management: Volume 20 Issue 2

Managing a variable acute patient flow – categorising the strategies

Olle Olsson, Håkan Aronsson

– This paper aims to explore if actions used at a hospital to manage a variable acute patient flow can be categorised using the concepts of lean, agile and leagile.

Collaborative firms managing perishable products in a complex supply network: an empirical analysis of performance

Juan Carlos Pérez Mesa, Emilio Galdeano-Gómez

This purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence of how cooperation is related to suppliers’ performance, a relationship that is thought to be affected by the type of…

A nuanced view on supply chain integration: a coordinative and collaborative approach to operational and sustainability performance improvement

Frank Wiengarten, Annachiara Longoni

This paper aims to report the results of an empirical study examining the operational, environmental and social sustainability performance impact of supply chain integration (SCI…

Buyer’s dependence in value creating supplier relationships

Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen, Katrina Lintukangas, Jukka Hallikas

The purpose of this paper is to examine what kind of supplier relationship management activities can be seen as value-creating activities and how those might affect the buyer’s…

Sustainability in food service supply chains: future expectations from European industry experts toward the environmental perspective

Inga-Lena Darkow, Bernadette Foerster, Heiko A. von der Gracht

This study aims to examine the management of food supply chains in complex and volatile business environments, where the sustainability requirements of customers and legislation…

Barriers to implementing reverse logistics in South Australian construction organisations

Nicholas Chileshe, Raufdeen Rameezdeen, M. Reza Hosseini, Steffen Lehmann

This paper aims to present a survey of the perceptions of the barriers to implementing reverse logistics (RL) practices in South Australian (SA) construction organisations…

Coordinating collaboration in contractually different complex construction projects

Rita Henriikka Lavikka, Riitta Smeds, Miia Jaatinen

– The paper aims to compare the coordination of supply chain networks in contractually different complex construction projects.

Resource-efficient supply chains: a research framework, literature review and research agenda

Aristides Matopoulos, Ana Cristina Barros, J.G.A.J. (Jack) van der Vorst

The study aims to define a research agenda for creating resource-efficient supply chains (RESCs) by identifying and analysing their key characteristics as well as future research…