Supply Chain Management: Volume 26 Issue 4

Coordinating food quality: How do quality standards influence contract arrangements? A study on Uruguayan food supply chains

Annemarie Groot-Kormelinck, Jacques Trienekens, Jos Bijman

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of quality standards on contract arrangements in food supply chains.

What does it take to go global? The role of quality alignment and complexity in designing international food supply chains

Mary Luz Olivares Tenorio, Stefano Pascucci, Ruud Verkerk, Matthijs Dekker, Tiny A.J.S. van Boekel

In this paper, a conceptual and methodological framework based on empirical evidence derived from the case of the Colombian Cape gooseberry (CG) supply chain is presented. Using…

Management of complexity in the care ecosystem

James Aitken, Ann E. Esain, Sharon Williams

Managing complexity within care ecosystems is an increasing universal challenge. In health, this is emphasised by recent calls for greater care integration to achieve service…

Supply chain in the C-suite: the effect of chief supply chain officers on incidence of product recalls

Maximilian Körber, Diogo Cotta

This study aims to investigate the extent to which the presence of chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) in top management teams (TMTs) helps firms to reduce the incidence of…

Examining the synergistic effect of supply chain agility, adaptability and alignment: a complementarity perspective

Javad Feizabadi, David M. Gligor, Somayeh Alibakhshi

Drawing on complementarity theory, this paper aims to examine the type and effect of interdependencies/interaction (i.e. complementarity or substitutability) between the supply…

Toward a more complete theory of sustainable supply chain management: the role of media attention

Julia Hartmann

To contribute to the development of a more complete theory of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), this study aims to focus on media attention as an under-researched…

An examination of the effect of supply chain disruption risk drivers on organizational performance: evidence from Chinese supply chains

Mahour Mellat Parast, Nachiappan Subramanian

This paper aims to examine the relationship of supply chain disruption risk drivers to supply chain performance and firm performance outcomes.