Recently added articles from Journal of Supply Chain Management:
On social network analysis in a supply chain context.
Apr 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION In most social science fields, including management science, the default mode of explanation up through the mid-20th century has been based primarily on individual attributes. Whether the individuals were persons or firms or any other kind of entity, the standard ...
Physical distribution and channel management: a knowledge and capabilities perspective.
Apr 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Research devoted to channel management has played an important role in the marketing discipline for over 40 years. Two main areas of channels research in marketing have evolved. First, how channels are organized or structured has been a focal point, centering on the ...
Building a more complete theory of sustainable supply chain management using case studies of 10 exemplars.
Apr 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Interest in green and now sustainable supply chains has been growing for over a decade and the topic is becoming mainstream (Corbett and Kleindorfer 2003; Corbett and Klassen 2006). However, there are still fundamental issues researchers need to address in order to ...
Integration in the global sourcing organization--an information processing perspective.
Apr 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Global sourcing refers to the integration of purchasing units across a firm's worldwide locations, looking for common items, processes, design, technologies, knowledge and suppliers (Faes, Matthyssens and Vandenbempt 2000; Rozemeijer 2000; Monczka and Trent 2003) ....
Innovation in logistics outsourcing relationships: proactive improvement by logistics service providers as a driver of customer loyalty.
Apr 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Competition in the logistics service industry has constantly increased over the past decades as the penetration of logistics markets steadily grew. Today, about 80 percent of industrial companies outsource logistics activities to logistics service providers (LSPs) ...
The 45th anniversary of the Journal of Supply Chain Management: progress to date and continued excellence moving forward.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This issue marks the start of the 45th year of publication for the journal. At the time that we wrote this comment, we were also 18 months into our editorship and our repositioning of JSCM. We outlined the many steps associated with this repositioning in Carter, Ellram and Kaufmann (2008) ....
Triads in supply networks: theorizing buyer-supplier-supplier relationships.
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION A supply chain is recognized as a network made up of buyers and suppliers (Miyashita and Russell 1994; Choi, Dooley and Rungtusanatham 2001; Choi and Hong 2002). Naturally, researchers have been focusing on the basic relational context within the supply ...
Using confidence intervals in supply chain and operations research.
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> Confidence intervals ... should be used for major findings in both the main text of a paper and its abstract. (Gardner and Altman, Statistics in Medicine, 1986, Vol. 292, p. 746) </Pre> INTRODUCTION The usefulness of hypothesis testing methods has long been the ...
Introduction to the forum on modeling versus empiricism.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The field of supply chain management is divided methodologically into two camps. The first, which focuses on analytical modeling approaches, has long been applied within the operations research arena. Many of the operations research scholars have more recently begun to apply analytical ...
The modeling-empiricism gap: lessons from the qualitative-quantitative gap in consumer research.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Supply chain management is not the only area of business research experiencing divergent research methods. Nor is it the only discipline with methodologically aligned researchers who seem to be going their separate ways rather than interacting and learning from one another. Organizational ...
The empiricism--modeling dichotomy in Operations and Supply Chain Management.
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION: A FIELD DIVIDED? A discipline is in part defined by its journals, and a study of journals in the Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) area supports the premise that a divide exists between empiricists and modelers in our discipline. Historically, OSCM has ...
Issues in the modeling-empiricism gap.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Scientific and social fields tend to evolve over time as society and its culture and economy evolve. If they don't, they are often relegated to the past as historical relics or, in some cases, "dead languages." However, evolution and change are difficult for many, ...
Bridging the gap between methodological camps in supply chain management.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Unlike many disciplines, supply chain management (SCM) is unique in that it is truly a boundary spanning function. At least in theory, it is a discipline that is intertwined with all other organizational functions, from purchasing to marketing. By definition, the key aspect of SCM is the ...
Structural embeddedness and supplier management: a network perspective.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Supplier management strategies such as supplier evaluation and supplier selection have drawn attention from academia, since Miller, Graham, Freeland, Hottenstein, Maister, Meredith and Schmenner (1981) articulated the importance of supplier management as a key ...
Supplier innovativeness and the role of interorganizational learning in enhancing manufacturer capabilities.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Reliance on suppliers for design or manufacturing has become commonplace. Outsourcing has helped companies such as IBM, HP and Motorola reduce production costs using lower-priced manufacturing labor and allowing them to freeze their R&D budgets using specialty ...
Strategic alignment and purchasing efficacy: an exploratory analysis of their impact on financial performance.
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION At the dawn of the 21st century, the strategic character of purchasing and supply management (PSM) has been widely recognized in the literature (Carter and Narasimhan 1996; Humphreys, McIvor and McAleer 2000). PSM is seen as a powerful competitive weapon for ...
Buyer dependency and relational capital formation: the mediating effects of socialization processes and supplier integration.
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Organizations increasingly rely on members of their supply chain to help drive cost reduction, process improvement and quality in order to achieve a competitive advantage. Attaining these benefits, however, requires commitments of physical assets, intellectual ...
A decade of SCM literature: past, present and future implications.(supply chain management)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Traditionally, supply chain management (SCM) has been a melting pot of various disciplines, with influences from logistics and transportation, operations management and materials and distribution management, marketing, as well as purchasing and information ...
A conceptual understanding of requirements for theory-building research: guidelines for scientific theory building.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Over the last several decades, there has been a dramatic increase in empirical studies testing theory (Swamidass 1991). The use of statistical techniques has been an important contribution to understanding the wide variety of practices'/programs' effects on ...
The application of industrial organization economics to supply chain management research.(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION I am pleased to respond to the request of JSCM co-editor-in-chief Craig Carter to submit an invited article on the application of industrial organization economics to supply chain management research. After more than 25 years of authoring academic articles, I ...