Recently added articles from Journal of Business Logistics:
AN INTRODUCTION TO SARBANES-OXLEY AND ITS IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted on July 30, 2002 in response to numerous corporate scandals and is intended "to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes" ...
EXPLORING PROCESSES FOR CUSTOMER VALUE INSIGHTS, SUPPLY CHAIN LEARNING AND INNOVATION: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Supply chain management, and within it, logistics management, involves designing, managing and improving product and service flow processes that span functions, organizations and countries in attempts to serve downstream customers' and ultimately end-use customers' ever ...
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECT OF FULL-SCALE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE ADOPTIONS ON INVENTORY BALANCES AND TURNS
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION In contrast to many forms of information technology (IT) expenditures, spending on supply chain management software promises direct and measurable benefits. i2 Technologies, a leading vendor of supply-chain management software, for example, stated in the early 2000's that ...
DEVELOPING SOCIAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Ever-increasing competition and globalization has made it harder for individual firms to satisfy the needs of their demanding customers. Firms therefore look for ways to coordinate the flows of raw materials and finished goods efficiently and have become closely ...
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VALUE OF CROSS-DOCKING FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Recent attempts to improve the efficiency of supply chains have focused on inventory-related costs, with a considerable amount of attention given to the amount of time inventory spends in the supply chain. Because of the amount of cash tied up in inventory, moving products ...
SUPPLY CHAIN INTERFACES: DEFINING ATTRIBUTES AND ATTRIBUTE VALUES FOR COLLABORATIVE LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
Jan 01, 2008; ... BACKGROUND Supply chain interfaces are areas where information or physical goods are exchanged between one trading partner and another - where trading partners "interface" with one another to achieve the successful transfer of goods or information. Interfaces, by their very nature, tend ...
SPECIAL SECTION ON EUROPEAN LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 2007
Jan 01, 2008; ... The second CSCMP European Research Seminar was held in conjunction with the Annual CSCMP European Conference in Paris in spring 2007. Interest in this event had grown substantially since its inauguration in 2006. Eighty percent more manuscripts had been submitted to the seminar (18 versus 10 the ...
UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING MACRO-INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY OF LOGISTICS SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Problem Background and Research Question The supply chain according to Mentzer et al. (2001) consists of many actors whose processes are interlinked in a global environment. Just like other authors (Cooper et al. 1997; Croxton, Garcia-Dastugue, and Lambert 2001; ...
AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE ALONG SEVERAL DIMENSIONS OF RISK
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION In the past years, a fairly new research area has emerged on the supply chain management scene and has gained considerable attention from both academics and practitioners: Supply chain risk management. This new interest is fueled by two parallel issues. First, a ...
EDITORIAL
Jan 01, 2008; ... This issue of the Journal of Business Logistics marks the publication of two historic "firsts" for the Journal. For the first time since its inception in 1978, JBL is now published in a larger format with a redesigned cover. The purposes of this change are twofold. The larger size allows better ...
SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY FOR NASCENT FIRMS IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY MARKETS
Jan 01, 2008; ... OVERVIEW The strategic role of supply chain management has typically been examined in the context of large, well-established, and conventionally market driven firms, which are by definition highly responsive to the articulated needs of their customers (Jaworski, Kohli, and Sahay 2000) ....
A GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN PROFIT MAXIMIZATION AND TRANSFER PRICING MODEL
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION In a large firm with a presence spanning multiple countries and continents, one often finds an organization consisting of many different manufacturing and distribution units. Further, these units may not all report in through a unified hierarchical structure. Even in firms ...
THE ROLE OF LOGISTICS MANAGERS IN THE CROSS-FUNCTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Since the mid 1990s, executives, educational programs, and professional organizations have changed their titles to reflect the new term "supply chain management," but there is still a lack of agreement on the domain of supply chain management. While some still use logistics ...
SUPPLY CHAIN CAPITAL: THE IMPACT OF STRUCTURAL AND RELATIONAL LINKAGES ON FIRM EXECUTION AND INNOVATION
Jan 01, 2008; ... The importance of firm-to-finn supply chain linkages has become increasingly apparent as supply chain management has transitioned from the revolutionary new business concept of the 1990's to the rapidly maturing and increasingly robust business paradigm that guides modern research and practice ....
GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Individual corporations and firms have been aware of the need for contingency planning and risk management for a long time. This awareness is reflected in the abundance of literature on the topic in several disciplines, with the body of knowledge revolving around finance and ...
THE DOMAIN AND SCOPE OF SCM'S FOUNDATIONAL DISCIPLINES INSIGHTS AND ISSUES TO ADVANCE RESEARCH
Jan 01, 2008; ... Over the last two decades, supply chains and supply chain management (SCM) have emerged as increasingly important areas of business practice and academic scholarship. First recognized in the 1980s (Oliver and Webber 1982), SCM has attracted intense interest and focus on the part of both ...
A THREE-STAGE IMPLEMENTATION MODEL FOR SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATION
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Supply chain management (SCM) has been called the company's ultimate core capability and the enabler of winning business models (Fine 1998; Lyons 2003). As part of a well-designed competitive strategy, SCM can drive profitability by boosting revenue growth through improved ...
EDITORIAL
Jan 01, 2007; ... Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2007) Continuing the Journal's emphasis on publishing both logistics and supply chain management (SCM) articles, this issue of JBL includes a nice blend of both. A total of eight articles devoted to various logistics and SCM topics are ...
Errata
Jan 01, 2007; ... In Journal of Business Logistics Vol. 27, No. 2 (2006), Ross, Buffa, Droge and Carrington published the article entitled, Supplier Evaluation in a Dyadic Relationship: An Action Research Approach." The authors would like to acknowledge some minor typographical errors. Full responsibility rests ...
PERSPECTIVES ON LOGISTICS VS. SCM: A SURVEY OF SCM PROFESSIONALS
Jan 01, 2007; ... DEDICATION Dedicated to Douglas E. Larson, a wonderful man and a great Dad, in loving memory. Paul D. Larson INTRODUCTION Effective January 1,2005, the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) became the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). This ...