TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose This paper aims to review logistics and supply chain management topics wheretheories have been applied to better understand the supply chain management(SCM) discipline identity. The purpose is threefold: to identify researchtopics in logistics and supply chain management where one or more theorieshave been examined; provide commentary on the theories that have beenapplied to the various logistics and SCM research topics; and to providereference material and direction for future research.Design/methodology/approach This structured literature review (SLR) examines research papers in logisticsand SCM from 1991 to 2015 published in eight leading academic journals.Papers in the data set are grouped by topic and further analyzed in terms ofresearch method, purpose, year and journal.Findings This research categorizes papers by the topics that were studied tounderstand important insights about how these topics have been examined byresearchers. Within each topic area, theories that researchers have used toinvestigate the topics are identified. This method exposes insights such as:how topics have evolved over time, which topics have lost prominence, whichtopics may be particularly promising for future research and how topics aretreated in the literature.Originality/value Despite multiple calls for clarification regarding how theory has been usedin logistics and SCM, the logistics and SCM disciplines continue to growwithout adequate research on how theory has been used to examine SCM topics.This SLR therefore provides a broad compilation of logistics and SCMresearch that uses named theories and that is organized by SCM topic tobetter understand the SCM discipline.
VL  - 23
IS  - 2
SN  - 1359-8546
DO  - 10.1108/SCM-05-2017-0166
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-05-2017-0166
AU  - Swanson David
AU  - Goel Lakshmi
AU  - Francisco Kristoffer
AU  - Stock James
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - An analysis of supply chain management research bytopic
T2  - Supply Chain Management: An International Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 100
EP  - 116
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -