The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 31 Issue 3

Understanding the relationship between general and middle-range theorizing

David Swanson, Lakshmi Goel, Kristoffer Francisco, James Stock

General theories have been criticized for their inability to explore the mechanics of more specific domain knowledge and understand how, when and where general theory applies to…

Paradoxes in supply chains: a conceptual framework for packed products

Henrik Pålsson, Erik Sandberg

Grounded in paradox theory, and with the objective of structuring and extending existing knowledge of conflicts of interest (e.g. trade-offs) in packaging logistics, the purpose…

Supply chain resilience: an adaptive cycle approach

Henry Adobor

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for extending an understanding of resilience in complex adaptive system (CAS) such as supply chains using the…

Barriers to multi-tier supply chain risk management

Liyuan Wang-Mlynek, Kai Foerstl

Multi-tier supply chain risk management (MSCRM) is an evolving and dynamic field, as any defaults or glitches in supply chains can potentially harm the efficiency and…

An information management approach for supply chain disruption recovery

Dario Messina, Ana Cristina Barros, António Lucas Soares, Aristides Matopoulos

To study how supply chain decision makers gather, process and use the available internal and external information when facing supply chain disruptions.

Do e-commerce customers change their preferred last-mile delivery based on its sustainability impact?

Bianca Ignat, Stanislav Chankov

The purpose of this paper is to explore if e-commerce customers change their preferred last-mile delivery, when they are provided with additional information on the environmental…

Green warehousing, logistics optimization, social values and ethics and economic performance: the role of supply chain sustainability

Yaw Agyabeng-Mensah, Esther Ahenkorah, Ebenezer Afum, Essel Dacosta, Zhongxing Tian

This study primarily explores the influence of green warehousing, logistics optimization and social values and ethics on supply chain sustainability and economic performance. The…

Environmental alignment between logistics service providers and shippers – a supply chain perspective

Maria Huge-Brodin, Edward Sweeney, Pietro Evangelista

Various suggested paths for greening logistics and supply chains often address the specific perspectives of single supply chain actors. Drawing on stakeholder theory, the purpose…

Examining the role of logistics 4.0 enabled dynamic capabilities on firm performance

Surajit Bag, Shivam Gupta, Zongwei Luo

The study investigates the effect of technological capabilities, organizational capabilities and environmental capabilities on Logistics 4.0 capabilities and also examines the…

Lean Production implementation, Cloud-Supported Logistics and Supply Chain Integration: interrelationships and effects on business performance

Luciano Novais, Juan Manuel Maqueira Marín, José Moyano-Fuentes

With support from the dynamic capabilities theory, this paper examines the role of Cloud Computing technology use in logistics (Cloud-Supported Logistics) and its effect on…

Investigating the role of demand planning as a higher-order construct in mitigating disruptions in the European supply chains

Artur Swierczek

The goal of the paper is twofold. First, it aims to empirically conceptualize whether a wide array of fragmented demand planning activities, performed in supply chains, can be…

Product quality information in supply chains: a performance-linked conceptual framework applied to the Australian red meat industry

Yue Zhang, Derek Baker, Garry Griffith

This paper aims to address the association between the quality and quantity of information in supply chains and the costs and benefits of generating, using and sharing it.