Supply Chain Management: Volume 28 Issue 4

Learning by supplying to climb the value chain: suppliers’ transition from B-to-B to B-to-C

Irfan Irfan, Alan Kai Ming Au, Faisal Khurshid, Felix T.S. Chan

Drawing on organizational learning and dynamic capabilities literature, this study aims to explore how suppliers from traditional emerging economies (STEE) can acquire, assimilate…

Service breadth or depth? A customer perspective

Ying Zhang, Zelong Wei, Jie Gao

To enhance the value of servitization in customers’ problem-solving, this study aims to examine and compare the effects of manufacturers’ service breadth and depth strategies on…

Systemic risks in supply chains: a need for system-level governance

Celian Colon, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

Global and interconnected supply chains are increasingly exposed to systemic risks, whereby individual failures propagate across firms, sectors and borders. Systemic risks have…

The dual environmental customer and green reputation pressures on environmental management systems: the performance implications of manufacturing exports

Hung Nguyen, George Onofrei, Frank Wiengarten, Ying Yang, Robert McClelland, Mohammadreza Akbari

This study aims to explore the joint effects of environmental customer and green reputation pressures (GRP) on environmental management systems (EMSs), and their linkages to…

Supply chain collaboration and supply chain finance adoption: the moderating role of information transparency and transaction dependence

Lixu Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Lujie Chen, Xiande Zhao, Shuili Yang

Although supply chain collaboration (SCC) theoretically boosts the adoption of supply chain finance (SCF) through information sharing and cost savings, many companies with good…

Let us get contextual: critical realist case studies in supply chain management

Amanda Bille, Christian Hendriksen

This study aims to explain the value of using critical realist case research in supply chain management (SCM). While positivist case research focuses on generalizable law-like…

The role of power-based behaviours on pharmaceutical supply chain resilience

Emilia Vann Yaroson, Liz Breen, Jiachen Hou, Julie Sowter

This study aims to explore the effect of power-based behaviours on pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) resilience.

Industry 4.0 technology capabilities, resilience and incremental innovation in Australian manufacturing firms: a serial mediation model

Dilupa Nakandala, Richard Yang, Henry Lau, Samanthi Weerabahu

There is a well-documented trend among businesses for applying continuously improving, technologically-supported processes. This trend, in part, responds to evolving and…

Improving cross-functional teams’ effectiveness during supply chain disruptions: the importance of information scouting and internal integration

Mitchell J. van den Adel, Thomas A. de Vries, Dirk Pieter van Donk

Organizations increasingly rely on cross-functional teams to deal with supply chain (SC) disruptions. These teams may use their broad range of connections and expertise to gather…

Supply chain resilience strategies and their impact on sustainability: an investigation from the automobile sector

Jagroop Singh, Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

The purpose of this study is to propose a framework comprising supply chain (SC) resilience strategies to handle low-frequency high impact disruptive events. This study also…

The role of technology in supply chain decarbonisation: towards an integrated conceptual framework

Linqi Xu, Fu Jia, Xiao Lin, Lujie Chen

This study aims to systematically review the current academic literature on the role of technologies in low-carbon supply chain management (SCM), identify and analyse critical…