The International Journal of Logistics Management
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Together, we travel: empirical insights on human-robot collaborative order picking for retail warehousing
Jonas Koreis, Dominic Loske, Matthias KlumppIncreasing personnel costs and labour shortages have pushed retailers to give increasing attention to their intralogistics operations. We study hybrid order picking systems, in…
Developing climate neutrality among supply chain members in metal and mining industry: natural resource-based view perspective
Sharad Sharma, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ruchi Mishra, Nachiappan (Nachi) SubramanianThis study aims to address three research questions pertaining to climate neutrality within the supply chain of metal and mining industry: (1) How can an organization implement…
Circular supply chain valorisation through sustainable value mapping in the post-consumer used clothing sector
Rudrajeet Pal, Erik SandbergThe purpose of this study is to explore the antecedents of uncaptured sustainable value and strategies to generate opportunities to capture it in the circular supply chain of…
A hybrid e-logistics service quality approach: modeling the evolution of B2C e-commerce
Hasan Uvet, John Dickens, Jason Anderson, Aaron Glassburner, Christopher A. BooneThis research paper aims to examine two hybrid models of logistics service quality (LSQ) and its influence on satisfaction, loyalty and future purchase intention in a…
Drivers and barriers for implementing social sustainability in supply chains: a qualitative investigation of a developing country's multi-tier suppliers
Shobod Deba Nath, Gabriel Eweje, Suborna BaruaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate why multi-tier apparel suppliers integrate social sustainability practices into their supply chains and what barriers these suppliers…
Supply chain carbon transparency to consumers via blockchain: does the truth hurt?
Qingyun Zhu, Yanji Duan, Joseph SarkisThe purpose of this study is to determine if blockchain-supported carbon offset information provision and shipping options with different cost and environmental footprint…
Information governance orientation, supply chain strategy type and performance outcomes
Joonhwan In, Randy Bradley, Bogdan C. Bichescu, Sumin HanThis study aims to examine the performance implications of an information governance (IG) framework for managing, controlling access to and securing information, focusing on (1…
Understanding interdependency of sustainability dimensions from the lens of collaborative relationship conditions: findings from an emerging economy
Gopal Kumar, Zach G. Zacharia, Mohit GoswamiDrawing on the relational view and contingency theories, this study explores supply chain relationship conditions' roles in interrelationships between environmental, social and…
Factors influencing career advancement in supply chain management with gender perspectives: French case study
Nadine Kafa, Salomée Ruel, Anicia JaeglerThe field of supply chain management (SCM) needs to attract and retain workers to solve the current talent shortage. The purpose of this research is to identify and evaluate…
Supply chain awareness: theoretical development and empirical test in the nonprofit context
Sebastián Javier García-Dastugue, Horacio E. RousseauManagerial “awareness” of supply chain management (SCM) principles is a key antecedent of SCM adoption. However, supply chain awareness (SCA) provides fertile ground for further…
Perceived relationship between green logistics practices and sustainability performance: a multi-methodology approach
Chamari Pamoshika Jayarathna, Duzgun Agdas, Les DawesDespite the wide use of quantitative assessment to identify the relationship between green logistics (GL) practices and the sustainability performance (SP) of firms, results of…
Impact of circular economy practices on supply chain capability, flexibility and sustainable supply chain performance
Gunjan MalhotraThis paper analyses the effect of circular economy practices on sustainable supply chain performance. The study explores the impact of mediating variables such as supply chain…
Mobilising big data analytics capabilities to improve performance of tourism supply chains: the moderating role of dynamic capabilities
Yuvika Gupta, Farheen Mujeeb Khan, Anil Kumar, Sunil Luthra, Maciel M. QueirozWith the emergence of big data analytics and the importance of analytics-driven decisions, the travel industry is swiftly jumping on and adopting the bandwagon. However, research…
An empirical research on the determinants of driver-partners' participative behaviour in crowd logistics: from a motivation theory perspective
Cam Tu Nguyen, Kum Fai Yuen, Thai Young Kim, Xueqin WangCrowd logistics is a rising phenomenon in last-mile delivery that integrates technological applications and sources a large number of participants to do logistical activities…
Mapping the terrain for the Lean Supply Chain 4.0
Olivia McDermott, Jiju Antony, Michael Sony, Vikas SwarnakarThis study aims to carry out a systematic literature review (SLR) on the integration of Lean, Industry 4.0 and the supply chain or the Lean Supply Chain (LSC) 4.0. The research…
Linkage between digital supply chain, supply chain innovation and supply chain dynamic capabilities: an empirical study
Quanxi Li, Haowei Zhang, Kailing Liu, Zuopeng Justin Zhang, Sajjad M. JasimuddinThere has been limited research that has explored the connection between digital supply chain (DSC) and SC innovation and SC dynamic capabilities. This paper aims to examine the…
Collaborative research competencies in supply chain management: the role of boundary spanning and reflexivity
Martin Beaulieu, Claudia Rebolledo, Raphael LissillourThis paper aims to investigate the competencies that researchers need to develop and employ for successful collaborative research.
Logistics value in e-commerce and its impact on customer satisfaction, loyalty and online retailers' performance
Arkadiusz Kawa, Wojciech ZdrenkaThe purpose of this study is to identify the factors that create value for the customer in the area of e-commerce logistics and to verify whether these factors impact online…
How to integrate ports into the EU ETS: the CAS approach perspective
İlke Sezin Ayaz, Umur Bucak, Soner EsmerThe European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which is already one of the EU's most impactful instruments for reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs), will soon include the…
Sustainable green logistics and remanufacturing: a bibliometric analysis and future research directions
Ali Nikseresht, Davood Golmohammadi, Mostafa ZandiehThis study reviews scholarly work in sustainable green logistics and remanufacturing (SGLR) and their subdisciplines, in combination with bibliometric, thematic and content…
Leveraging autonomous mobile robots for Industry 4.0 warehouses: a multiple case study analysis
Abhay Kumar Grover, Muhammad Hasan AshrafDespite its potential, warehouse managers still struggle to successfully assimilate autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in their operations. This paper means to identify the…
The impact of the stringency of environmental policy on a firm's financial performance: an empirical study of European automobile manufacturers
Fahimeh R. Chomachaei, Davood GolmohammadiThe authors investigate the impact of the stringency of environmental policy on the financial performance of European automobile manufacturers. This paper contributes to the…
Port supply chain integration and sustainability: a resource-based view
Khaled Hussein, Dong-Wook SongIt is claimed that port supply chain integration (PSCI), thanks to its attributes, holds a potential to trigger a port to strategically sustain performance- and…
Knowledge management for supply chain resilience in pharmaceutical industry: evidence from the Middle East region
Saad Zighan, Nidal Yousef Dwaikat, Ziad Alkalha, Moheeb AbualqumbozThis study investigates the role of supply chain knowledge management in enhancing pharmaceutical supply chain resilience.
What does “sustainable supply chain management” really mean? A contribution to bridging the gap between research, education and practice
Morgane M.C. Fritz, Salomée RuelThis study explores practitioners' perspectives on and definitions of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), which are then compared to academic definitions to identify new…
Greening warehouses through energy efficiency and environmental impact reduction: a conceptual framework based on a systematic literature review
Sara Perotti, Claudia ColicchiaThe purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of green strategies as a combination of energy-efficiency measures and solutions towards environmental impact reduction for…
Inventory sharing in healthcare supply chains: systematic literature review and future research agenda
Panniphat Atcha, Ilias Vlachos, Satish KumarIneffective management inventory of medical products such as blood and vaccines can create severe repercussions for hospitals, clinics or medical enterprises, such as surgery…
Dynamic capabilities for supply chain resilience: a meta-review
Gernot M. Stadtfeld, Tim GruchmannThe research on supply chain resilience (SCRES) has gained momentum after organizations have experienced more frequent and severe disruptions, especially with COVID-19 and the…
Supply chain resource orchestration in emerging markets: an empirical examination of product launch performance
Matthew Jenkins, Timothy Munyon, Marc ScottEndeavoring to expand their global market presence, firms often launch products into emerging markets where managers face the daunting task of deploying products by managing…
Why supply chain complexity prevails: mapping the complexity capability development process
Markus Gerschberger, Stanley E. Fawcet, Amydee M. Fawcett, Melanie GerschbergerComplexity has been called the 21st-century supply chain (SC) challenge. Most SC managers view it as a necessary evil, ever-present, costly and tough to manage, and few prioritize…
The role of supply chain integration between integrated information technology and financial performance – a disaggregated framework and findings
Emilio Ruzo-Sanmartín, Alaa Abdelaziz Abousamra, Carmen Otero-Neira, Göran SvenssonTo examine the role of supply chain integration (SCI – i.e. supplier integration, customer integration and internal integration) between integrated information technology (IIT…
An investigation on consumers' preferences for parcel deliveries: applying consumer logistics in omni-channel shopping
Xueqin Wang, Yiik Diew Wong, Wenming Shi, Kum Fai YuenOmni-channel shopping affords consumers a variety of delivery options to receive products based on their preferred times and locations. By considering consumers' contributions…
Are supply chain partnerships developed and implemented according to their potential?
Matias G. Enz, Douglas M. LambertGrounded in contingency theory and strategic fit theory, the goal for this research was to determine if managers differentiate in terms of the degree of partnership when…
Business models for logistics service providers in industrial additive manufacturing supply chains
Anne Friedrich, Anne Lange, Ralf ElbertThis study identifies and characterizes configurations of generic business models for logistics service providers (LSPs) in the context of industrial additive manufacturing (AM)…
Digital twin-based warehouse management system: a theoretical toolbox for future research and applications
Pratik Maheshwari, Sachin Kamble, Satish Kumar, Amine Belhadi, Shivam GuptaThe digital warehouse management system is an emergence that forms a critical part of the transformation of economic structure in Industry 4.0. In the present business scenario…
The impacts of supply visibility and demand visibility on product innovation: the mediating role of supply chain integration
Miao Hu, Shenyang Jiang, Baofeng HuoDrawing on absorptive capacity theory, this study explores the impacts of supply visibility and demand visibility on product innovation (i.e. exploratory and exploitative…
Leveraging shippers-logistics providers relationships for better sustainability in logistics: the perspective of SMEs
Alessandro Creazza, Claudia Colicchia, Pietro EvangelistaThe organization of services can affect the adoption of sustainable practices within the relationship between a buyer (e.g. a shipper) and a supplier (e.g. a logistics service…
The changing landscape of digital transformation in supply chains: impacts of industry 4.0 in Vietnam
Mohammadreza Akbari, Seng Kiat Kok, John Hopkins, Guilherme F. Frederico, Hung Nguyen, Abel Duarte AlonsoThe purpose of the article is to contribute to the body of research on digital transformation among members of the supply chain operating in an emerging economy. This paper…
Supply chain risk and resilience in startups, SMEs, and large enterprises: a systematic review and directions for research
Arsalan Safari, Vanesa Balicevac Al Ismail, Mahour Parast, Ismail Gölgeci, Shaligram PokharelThis systematic literature review analyzes the academic literature to understand SC risk and resilience across different organizational sizes and industries. The academic…
Supplier involvement in NPD projects: the buyer's perspective on the complementary roles of social capital and social exchange for project performance
Lamiae Benhayoun, Marie-Anne Le-Dain, Tarik Saikouk, Holger Schiele, Richard CalviBuying firms involve suppliers early in New Product Development (NPD) projects to benefit from their capabilities. The authors investigate the joint impact on project performance…
A call to action: a stakeholder analysis of green logistics practices
Lorenzo Bruno Prataviera, Alessandro Creazza, Sara PerottiThere is a growing body of literature discussing the green logistics practices (GLPs) that companies could introduce to reduce the logistics environmental impact. Current…
Linking decentralization in decision-making to resilience outcomes: a supply chain orientation perspective
Saban Adana, Ila Manuj, Michael Herburger, Sedat Cevikparmak, Hasan Celik, Hasan UvetGlobal supply chains are increasingly becoming more prone to high-impact disruptions, which has been fairly evident with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The…
Keeping goods moving in the wake of a disaster: a qualitative study of intermodal transport
Cecile L'Hermitte, Liam Wotherspoon, Richard MowllThis paper examines what facilitates the swift reconfiguration of freight movements across transport modes in the wake of a major disaster.
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic – catching up in the food industry through business model innovation
Christopher Münch, Evi HartmannThe food supply chain worldwide has suffered severely due to the COVID-19 pandemic countermeasures. Previous research suggests that business model innovation (BMI) could be a…
Pressures, power relationships and governance mechanisms: a multi-tier supply chain approach
Giovanni Beccari Gemente, Andrea Lago da Silva, Eliciane Maria da Silva, Flavio Henrique CostaTo do this, the authors carried out a systematic literature review to answer three questions: (RQ1) Which external pressures affect an FC and its suppliers in an MSC? (RQ2) What…
Defensive pessimism and its effect on supply chain performance
Uchenna Peter Ekezie, Seock-Jin HongThis paper addresses a gap in task performance research, with a focus on supply chain operations, by exploring the role that defensive pessimism (DP)—a phenomenon sparsely studied…
Adoption of online crowdsourced logistics during the pandemic: a consumer-based approach
Le Yi Koh, Ying Sien Peh, Xueqin Wang, Kum Fai YuenThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a brand-new phenomenon in customer consumption patterns. This resulted from heightened health awareness brought on by the COVID-19 epidemic…
Multi-demand supply chain triads and the role of Third-Party Logistics Providers
Ilias Vlachos, Vasiliki PolichronidouThird-party logistics providers (3PLs) have significantly evolved during the last decades, yet their role within a supply chain triad has been overlooked; this study examines…
The effects of power imbalance on supply chain sustainability adoption: evidence from the artisanal fishing industry
Sylvia Rivera-Valle, Minelle E. SilvaGrounded on resource dependence theory, the authors explored how power and dependence affect sustainability adoption in an artisanal fishing supply chain (AFSC) in Mexico.
Sustainability supply chain practices: proposal for a framework
Elisabete Correia, Susana Garrido, Helena CarvalhoThis paper proposes a framework for the implementation of sustainability practices by individual companies and corresponding supply chains (SCs), considering the various SC tiers…
The sustainable development of rural-to-urban food supply chains in developing nations
Trang Hoang, John Bell, Pham Hung Hiep, Chad W. AutryThis paper explores how firms develop and mature sustainable supply chains (SSCs) in developing nations (DNs). The primitive resources, infrastructures and understanding of SSCs…
Impacts of cognitive and social distances on supply chain capability: the moderating effect of information technology utilization
Qinfang Hu, Haowei Yu, Huirong Wu, Jing ChenThis study aims to examine how implicit distance (cognitive and social) impacts supply chain capabilities, and the roles of information technology (IT) utilization and supply…
Supply chain agility as the antecedent to firm sustainability in the post COVID-19
Michael Wang, Bin (Bill) WangCOVID-19 has caused critical supply chain problems, especially in sustainable supply chain management, but very few empirical studies have been explored how to improve the firm…
Strategies to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on supply chain disruptions: a multiple case analysis of buyers and distributors
Atif Saleem ButtThis paper explores the steps/countermeasures taken by buying and distributing firms to address supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Supply chains and COVID-19: impacts, countermeasures and post-COVID-19 era
Atif Saleem ButtThis paper explores the steps/countermeasures taken by firms to address supply chain disruptions in the wake of COVID-19.
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