Supply Chain Management: Volume 25 Issue 1

Determinants of corporate compliance with modern slavery reporting

Anthony Flynn

This paper aims to investigate the determinants of corporate compliance with the transparency in supply chains provision of the UK Modern Slavery Act. While recent scholarship has…

A learning perspective of supply chain quality management: empirical evidence from US supply chains

Mahour Mellat Parast

This paper aims to examine the relationship between supply chain quality management practices and their impact on supply chain performance. The authors define and operationalize…

Achieving sustainability in global sourcing: towards a conceptual framework

Yan Jiang, Fu Jia, Constantin Blome, Lujie Chen

This paper aims to set out the development, based on the extant literature, an integrated conceptual framework for the emergent field of sustainable global sourcing (GS) that…

Risk management of manufacturing multinational corporations: the moderating effects of international asset dispersion and supply chain integration

Wenjin Hu, Yongyi Shou, Mingu Kang, Youngwon Park

The purpose of this study is to investigate the contingencies of supply chain risk management (SCRM) in manufacturing multinational corporations (MNCs) by exploring the moderating…

Developing resilient supply chains: lessons from high-reliability organisations

Emmanuel Sawyerr, Christian Harrison

The purpose of this study is to identify the prescribed formative elements of supply chain resilience (SCR) in literature, to compare them with the unique characteristics of high…

Ambidextrous supply chain managers in a slow clockspeed industry: evidence from a Brazilian adhesive manufacturer

Aruana Rosa Souza-Luz, Iuri Gavronski

Conventional wisdom posits that firms in slow clockspeed industries usually favor exploitation over exploration, prioritizing the need to increase efficiency, reduce costs and…

Developing a framework for considering blockchain pilots in the supply chain – lessons from early industry adopters

Remko van Hoek

There is a lot of interest in blockchain technology in the supply chain, but to date, there is little empirical research to support managerial decision-making. Verhoeven et al.…

Measuring the effects of time: repeated cross-sectional research in operations and supply chain management

Torsten Doering, Nallan C. Suresh, Dennis Krumwiede

Longitudinal investigations are often suggested but rarely used in operations and supply chain management (OSCM), mainly due to the difficulty of obtaining data. There is a silver…