International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 43 Issue 7

Interaction: a new focus for supply chain vs supply chain competition

Imoh Antai, Hans Olson

Although the supply chain (SC) competition concept has emerged during the past decade as the way firms will compete in future, there is scant academic research on actual…

Logistics alliance management capabilities: where are they?

Lisa Brekalo, Sascha Albers, Werner Delfmann

Due to the continued high failure rate of logistics alliances, the purpose of this paper is to propose incorporating the widely neglected dynamic capabilities approach into the…

The impact of dependence and trust on supply chain integration

Min Zhang, Baofeng Huo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the joint influence of dependence and trust in supply chain relationships on supply chain integration (SCI) and financial performance…

Impact of reverse logistics on supply chain performance

Mario Turrisi, Manfredi Bruccoleri, Salvatore Cannella

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of reverse logistics on order and inventory variance amplification in a single-echelon supply chain (SC) and to propose a new…

An exploration of supply chain integration in the retail product returns process

Michael Bernon, John Upperton, Marko Bastl, John Cullen

– The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore supply chain integration (SCI) enabling practices, their benefits and barriers in a retail product returns process context.

Co-opetition in logistics and supply chain management research

Gyongyi Kovacs, Karen Spens