Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing: Volume 16 Issue 1

Selection of strategy for reverse logistics implementation

Himanshu Prajapati, Ravi Kant, Ravi Shankar

Reverse logistics has attracted many industries due to product recalls, enormous waste generation, competitive reasons, vast opportunity in the waste management market, and to get…

Comparing outsourcing-outlook of manufacturing firms and logistics service providers in India and DACH countries

Dhanavanth Reddy Maditati, Sebastian Kummer, Ziaul Haque Munim, Hans-Joachim Schramm

According to the logistics performance index, emerging countries such as India are lagging behind developed countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region). The…

A qualitative study of improving the operations strategy of logistics using radio frequency identification

John Flanagan, Candice McGovern

This study aims to investigate how radio frequency identification (RFID) is used and opinions about RFID in two world-leading logistics companies and four organisations in their…

Investigating social factors and their impact on value co-creation in supply chain ecosystems

Franziska Goetz, Ismail Türkmen, Christoph Buck, Reinhard Meckl

As coopetition often characterizes relationships in ecosystems, social factors are particularly important to ensure resilient and reliable relationships, therefore efficient…

Analysing the interactions of sustainability practices and financial performance on business-to-business buying behaviour in Indian manufacturing industry: a graph-theoretic approach

Mohit Saxena, Nitin Seth

This study aims to develop a framework for the action hierarchy of sustainability practices and financial performance and their optimal combination for supplier evaluation and…

Guidelines for public sector managers on assessing the impact of outsourcing on business continuity strategies: a Brazilian case

João Paulo Santos Aragão, Marcele Elisa Fontana

This paper aims to propose guidelines for public sector managers in assessing the impact of outsourcing on business continuity (BC) strategies. This paper evaluated how public…

An appraisal of blockchain technology relevance in the 21st century Nigerian construction industry: perspective from the built environment professionals

Andrew Ebekozien, Clinton Aigbavboa, Mohamad Shaharudin Samsurijan

Studies show that the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies can be used to transform the built environment sector in the 21st century. Blockchain technology has been…

Modelling perceived risk in blockchain enabled supply chain utilizing fuzzy-AHP

Sagar Dua, Mohita Gangwar Sharma, Vinaytosh Mishra, Sourabh Devidas Kulkarni

Blockchain has been considered a disrupting technology that can add value in various supply chains differently. The provenance framework matches the four blockchain capabilities…