Supply Chain Management: Volume 29 Issue 1

Supply network resilience capabilities: a social–ecological perspective

Larissa Statsenko, Ruchini Senarath Jayasinghe, Claudine Soosay

This study aims to investigate supply network (SN) resilience capabilities across the organizational, supply chain (SC) and industry levels by drawing on the complex adaptive…

Blockchain in supply chain management: a feature-function framework for future research

James C. Brau, John Gardner, Hugo A. DeCampos, Krista Gardner

Blockchain technology offers numerous venues for supply chain applications and research. However, the connections between specific blockchain features and future applications have…

Managing supplier sustainability risk: an experimental study

Sara Hajmohammad, Robert D. Klassen, Stephan Vachon

Buying firms are increasingly exposed to sustainability risk arising from negative conditions or potential events in their supply base that might provoke adverse stakeholder…

Multi-tier sustainable supply chain management: a case study of a global food retailer

Adegboyega Oyedijo, Simonov Kusi-Sarpong, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan, Kome Utulu

Implementing sustainable practices in multi-tier supply chains (MTSCs) is a difficult task. This study aims to investigate why such endeavours fail and how MTSC partners can…

Social enterprise housing supply chains for resource-constrained communities: a complexity lens approach

Tillmann Boehme, Joshua Fan, Thomas Birtchnell, James Aitken, Neil Turner, Eric Deakins

Delivering housing to resource-constrained communities (RCCs) is a complex process beset with difficulties. The purpose of this study is to use a complexity lens to examine the…

A maturity model for supply chain risk management

João Henrique Lopes Guerra, Fernando Bernardi de Souza, Silvio Roberto Ignácio Pires, Anderson Luiz Ribeiro de Sá

Supply chains are among the most important, complex and risky systems in the modern world. Thus, managing risk is no longer an option, but a fundamental process in organizations…

Unraveling the black box of supply chain flexibility in lean production environments

Beatriz Minguela-Rata, Juan Manuel Maqueira, Araceli Rojo, José Moyano-Fuentes

This study aims to examine the full mediating role of supply chain flexibility (SCF) between lean production (LP) and business performance (BP) found in the previous literature…

Impact of digital technology usage on firm resilience: a dynamic capability perspective

Fei Ye, Min Ke, You Ouyang, Yina Li, Lixu Li, Yuanzhu Zhan, Minhao Zhang

While the usage of digital technology can bring many operational improvements for firms, it is unclear whether it can effectively improve firm resilience to deal with supply chain…

Can the supply chain management field be more critical? Building new bridges with critical management studies

Ely Laureano Paiva, Rafael Alcadipani, Kenyth Alves De Freitas, Larissa Alves Sincorá, Arun Abraham Elias

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how three core elements of critical management studies (CMSs), “de-naturalisation”, “reflexivity” and “(non)-performative intent”, can…

Linkages between technologies and supply chain performance: benefits, power and risk reduction

Pamela J. Zelbst, Liu Yang, Kenneth W. Green, Victor E. Sower

The purpose of this paper is to assess the combined impact of the Industry 4.0 blockchain and industrial internet of things technology (IIoT) technologies on the development of…