Supply Chain Management: Volume 21 Issue 3

The influence of supply chain on the innovation process: a systematic literature review

Ricardo Zimmermann, Luís Miguel D.F. Ferreira, Antonio Carrizo Moreira

The importance of innovation as a generator of competitive advantage and the collaborative nature of this process are recurring themes in the literature. This paper aims to…

Motivational influences on supply manager environmental sustainability behavior

James Anthony Swaim, Michael J. Maloni, Amy Henley, Stacy Campbell

Although supply chain managers serve a central role when implementing corporate environmental sustainability objectives, existing literature does not demonstrate high levels of…

Watch the working capital of tier-two suppliers: a financial perspective of supply chain collaboration in the automotive industry

Xosé H. Vázquez, Antonio Sartal, Luis M. Lozano-Lozano

This paper aims to examine how lack of financial cooperation damages the operational efficiency of supply chains. The thesis is that economic and technological forces are…

Factors that influence interorganizational use of information and communications technology in relationship-based supply chains: evidence from the Macedonian and American wine industries

Kristijan Mirkovski, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Bo Feng

The purpose of this paper is to better understand how interorganizational relationships influence information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled supply chain (SC…

Value chain analysis: an iterative and relational approach for agri-food chains

Janet Howieson, Meredith Lawley, Kathleen Hastings

Value Chain Analysis (VCA) is established as a diagnostic tool. The purpose of this study is to extend existing applications and develop an iterative and relational method. to…

Trade credit dynamics during the phases of the business cycle – a value chain perspective

Harri Lorentz, Tomi Solakivi, Juuso Töyli, Lauri Ojala

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of how the business cycle affects net-trade-credit and its components in firms on different tiers of the value chain, including…

Reverse resource exchanges in service supply chains: the case of returnable transport packaging

Kostas Selviaridis, Aristides Matopoulos, Leslie Thomas Szamosi, Alexandros Psychogios

The purpose of this paper is to understand how reverse resource exchanges and resource dependencies are managed in the service supply chain (SSC) of returnable transport packaging…

Institutional pressures, resources commitment, and returns management

Yi-Chun Huang, Min-Li Yang, Ying-Jiuan Wong

This study aims to explore the relationships among institutional pressures, commitment of resources and returns management. Returns management is regarded as a part of supply…