Supply Chain Management: Volume 24 Issue 5

Enforcement mechanisms and governance structures to protect a region of origin lamb product

Melissa van der Merwe, Johann F. Kirsten, Jacques H. Trienekens

This paper aims to make an empirical contribution by investigating the enforcement mechanisms and governance structures required to protect and govern a regional food product when…

Digital product fitting in retail supply chains: maturity levels and potential outcomes

Emmelie Gustafsson, Patrik Jonsson, Jan Holmström

In retail, product fitting is a critical operational practice. For many products, the operational outcome of the retail supply chain is determined by the customer physically…

Comprehensive supply chain management model

Kenneth W. Green, R. Anthony Inman, Victor E. Sower, Pamela J. Zelbst

The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically assess a comprehensive operations and supply chain management (SCM) model. The theorized model incorporates supply chain…

Additive manufacturing: empirical evidence for supply chain integration and performance from the automotive industry

Mia Delic, Daniel R. Eyers, Josip Mikulic

Additive Manufacturing offers much potential for industry, but at the same time is likely to have a significant impact on supply chain theory and practice. To-date there has been…

Mixed sustainability motives, mixed results: the role of compliance and commitment in sustainable supply chain practices

Yinfei Chen, Injazz J. Chen

As supply chain sustainability has become more urgent than ever before, this study aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of how supplying firms’ sustainability motives…

The differences in agent effects on sustainable supply chain management: an activity theory construction

Mohsin Malik, Salam Abdallah, Stuart Orr, Uzma Chaudhary

This paper responds to calls from the literature for research identifying the difference between the effect of internal agents and external agents, such as customers, suppliers…

Supply chain resilience for performance: role of relational practices and network complexities

Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Mohammed Quaddus, Renu Agarwal

Following a contingent resource-based view (CRBV) perspective, this paper aims to explore the operating context in which supply chain resilience (SCRE) is likely to enhance the…

Barriers to circular food supply chains in China

Muhammad Farooque, Abraham Zhang, Yanping Liu

This paper aims to identify and systematically analyze the causal-effect relationships among barriers to circular food supply chains in China.