Supply Chain Management: Volume 27 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Gary Graham

Does supplier involvement enhance financial performance? The encapsulation effects of product modularity and smartness

Yu Wang, Tao Jia, Jinliang Chen, Qiujun Chen

This study aims to explore the conditional relationships between supplier involvement and financial performance. From a problem-solving perspective, this study takes the focal…

Eco-innovation analysis of OECD countries with common weight analysis in data envelopment analysis

Reza Kiani Mavi, Neda Kiani Mavi, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Mark Goh

Despite unanimity in the literature that eco-innovation (EI) leads to sustainable development, evidence remains limited on measuring EI efficiency with the Malmquist productivity…

The application of digital twin technology in operations and supply chain management: a bibliometric review

Rajinder Bhandal, Royston Meriton, Richard Edward Kavanagh, Anthony Brown

The application of digital twins to optimise operations and supply chain management functions is a bourgeoning practice. Scholars have attempted to keep pace with this development…

Characteristics of supplier performance measurement systems in collaborative innovation projects: the role of the purchasing department

Andrea Patrucco, Federico Frattini, Anthony Di Benedetto

In the wake of the growing popularity of the open innovation approach, leveraging suppliers as external sources of innovation has attracted increasing interest from scholars and…

E-mobility ecosystem innovation – impact on downstream supply chain management processes. Is India ready for inevitable change in auto sector?

Ajay Serohi

The purpose of this study is to understand the specific reasons why developed countries could easily start implementing innovative alternative fuel vehicles (e.g. electric…

Eco-innovation in the upstream supply chain: re-thinking the involvement of purchasing managers

Laurence Viale, Stéphano Vacher, Jeanne Bessouat

In a context of ecological transition, this study aims to explore and understand what fosters the participation of purchasing departments and identify the drivers and difficulties…

Investigating barriers to demand-driven SME collaboration in low-volume high-variability manufacturing

Nikolai Kazantsev, Grigory Pishchulov, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Pedro Sampaio, Judy Zolkiewski

This paper adopts a multi-tier perspective and aims to explore challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in collaborative manufacturing amid the emergence of…

Digital project driven supply chains: a new paradigm

Sanjay Bhattacharya, Arup Chatterjee

This paper aims to propose an integrated framework for digital project-driven supply chains (PDSC) to address multiple objectives in Architecture, Engineering, Construction and…

How frugal innovation shape global sustainable supply chains during the pandemic crisis: lessons from the COVID-19

Rameshwar Dubey, David James Bryde, Cyril Foropon, Manisha Tiwari, Angappa Gunasekaran

The COVID-19 crisis has created enormous strain in global supply chains. The disruption has caused severe shortages of critical items, including personal protective equipment…

Episodic supply chains at times of disruption

Christina Öberg

Additive manufacturing has been described as converting supply chains into demand chains. By focusing on metal additive manufacturing as a contemporary technology causing ongoing…