M. Theodore Farris, Janeth Gabaldon, Michael J. Gravier
{"title":"The 2022 who went where in supply chain management","authors":"M. Theodore Farris, Janeth Gabaldon, Michael J. Gravier","doi":"10.1002/tjo3.12006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/tjo3.12006","url":null,"abstract":"The inaugural Who Went Where in Supply Chain Management (SCM) survey replicates the 19‐year format from the highly successful American Marketing Association (AMA) Doctoral Special Interest Group. Results provide data about newly minted doctoral graduates in the job‐seeking stage of their doctoral programs. The report is based on their responses and offers insight into the competitiveness of doctoral applicants as they sought starting positions. We adapted the AMA survey report to the field of SCM. As the new researchers and academics with SCM doctorates place themselves into academic and nonacademic positions, the report seeks to provide (1) awareness to PhD students on how to prepare and be competitive in the job market and (2) offer acumen to academic leaders to equip doctoral students and shape their doctoral program requirements to enhance competitiveness.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140519414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extending the theory of planned behavior with government support and perceived risk to test the adoption of light electric vehicles in Tainan","authors":"Tamer Z. Fouad Mohamed","doi":"10.1002/tjo3.12001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/tjo3.12001","url":null,"abstract":"Taiwan has become a pioneer in light electric vehicles (LEVs) despite limited government support (GS) and the perceived risks (PR) that discouraged the public from buying them. This article aims to confirm these two factors as key determinants for LEV adoption in Taiwan. The method relies on confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to test the behavioral intention (BI) of Tainan youth to adopt LEVs. In particular, the method extends the theory of planned behavior by addressing GS and PR while testing behavioral control (BC) as mediator and demographics as moderator. The report's findings confirm the mediating role of BC but do not confirm the effect of subjective norm. Young adults emphasized GS as a key factor influencing their adoption of LEVs. These findings are further discussed to bridge literature gaps of early stage adoption. The article also explores the implications of its research findings and offers recommendations for future research.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140519934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea S. Patrucco, Tobias Schoenherr, Antonella Moretto
{"title":"The Value of Data-driven Category Management: A Case for Teaching Data Analytics to Purchasing and Supply Management Students","authors":"Andrea S. Patrucco, Tobias Schoenherr, Antonella Moretto","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0427","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As companies look to differentiate themselves with the help of their suppliers, the need for robust and sophisticated purchasing and supply management (PSM) processes that allow for informed decision-making becomes increasingly important. These processes often rely on sophisticated data analytics to inform the design of a company's category management strategy, such as its supply network design, its supplier relationship management, and its supplier performance management. Therefore, data analytics skills are crucial for PSM professionals. To foster these skills, we developed an innovative approach for teaching students how to use data analytics tools and techniques in PSM through the use of a teaching case called \"Savingtools.\" This case, developed in collaboration with a company undergoing a PSM transformation, illustrates the value of data-driven category management in PSM. The case further demonstrates the principles and tools related to PSM data management, spend analysis, and classification, and allows for in-depth data analysis, including visualizations. Our approach has been shown to effectively enhance student learning and comprehension, and we believe that it prepares future supply chain leaders while advancing PSM pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139224895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Future-Proofing Supply Chain Education","authors":"Sebastian Brockhaus, R. van Hoek, Steven DeNunzio","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0355","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This special issue aims to support future-proofing supply chain education—ensuring that the education we offer meets the needs of our students today as well as their future employers tomorrow. Specifically, this issue offers approaches to instructional methods and design that can help educators better respond to the growing need to develop future supply chain leaders. In this editorial, we consider the critical need to focus on this in research and teaching, and we offer a reflection upon today's focus on education and introduce key facets of a more future-proof educational approach.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139217883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Active Learning Exercise for Teaching Process Strategy Alignment and Process Improvement","authors":"Huiling Liu, Alan W. Mackelprang","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0458","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This hands-on active learning exercise uses an origami activity to teach students how to (1) achieve competitive priorities through process design and (2) monitor and evaluate process performance for potential improvement. Students are expected to explore current work processes for areas of improvement by focusing on process structure and resource management in process design and evaluation. Through the activity, students are exposed to linking process design with competitive priorities and challenged to evaluate their process for potential improvement. We provide several extensions of the activity that can be utilized to further its pedagogical utility.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139218489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Logistics and Supply Chain Superpowers and Skills for Survival in the \"New Normal\" Globalized World","authors":"Rico Merkert, Kai Hoberg, Kumaraguru Mahadevan","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0369","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Disruptions and rising costs in global supply chains due to COVID-19, climate change, and geopolitical tensions have led to supernormal profits, substantially more recognition of the importance of the sector and management functions associated with it, and a potential \"golden age\" for a career in logistics and supply chain management (LSCM). This article provides a general overview of the opportunities arising from global LSCM trends. Motivated by student views and comments, the authors have surveyed leading academics and senior practitioners globally across the key LSCM functions to obtain a comprehensive view on the future skills required to excel in a career in supply chain management. Their findings suggest a multitude of future-proof skills centred around technical (e.g., data analytics), soft (e.g., creativity) and cross-functional skills, which they then use to discuss implications for job profiles, graduates (i.e., learn to learn) and LSCM professionals. Given the variety and complexity of the identified skills and LSCM functions, in addition to a compounding LSCM talent shortage, the authors propose changes in LSCM offerings at universities and other tertiary education providers, with a focus on unlearning and life-long learning.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139220038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time for Students to Take the Stage: Improving Career Readiness via a Deliberate-Practice Case Pedagogy","authors":"S. Fawcett, Amydee M. Fawcett, A. M. Knemeyer","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.4.0397","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What skills do supply chain students need to be career ready? The answer: Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and professionalism. Regrettably, recruiters lament today's graduates too often lack these core skills. Worse, declining student learning and diminished engagement, especially post-pandemic, are undermining the value of a supply chain education. To help close the supply chain skills gap and re-engage students, we describe a deliberate-practice case pedagogy. We begin by reviewing the pros and cons of various case pedagogies to highlight how they might fit in a professor's case-teaching portfolio. We then discuss deliberate practice and show how professors can embed it into a student-led case pedagogy. We conclude by sharing post-graduation student feedback that shows this approach not only closes career-readiness gaps but also helps students build the confidence needed to achieve early career success.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139216810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Noble Quest: Navigating Toward Sustainable Transportation","authors":"David Swanson, Y. Jin","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.3.0249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.3.0249","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Societies around the world consistently enjoy better living standards as product choices, availability, quality, and cost are continuously improved. As lifestyles improve and the world population grows, so does the amount of transportation necessary to support this lifestyle. Despite our noble quest to adopt more sustainable transportation, and despite countless innovations and improvements, the results are inadequate; carbon reduction is insufficient to curtail our growth trajectory, much less achieve the aggressive zero emission targets set by companies and governments. To examine this problem, we revisit transportation as a derived demand, a principle which has been accepted for decades, but largely forgotten in sustainable transportation research. In fact, transportation has evolved so much that some scholars are debating the significance of this age-old assumption. This suggests that transportation researchers take a fresh look at the nature, changes, and evolving trends of transportation demand and possibly focus less on sustainable transport and more on adjusting the demand for sustainable transportation.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43743257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of the China Railway Express on FDI Inflows in Chinese Prefecture-level Cities","authors":"Xin Gong Ding, Kyoung-Suk Choi, Xiujun Ji","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.3.0331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.3.0331","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Operating the China Railway Express (CRE) is a primary strategy for promoting international trade and investment between China and Europe. Since the inception of the CRE in 2011, the number of operational routes and connected cities has steadily increased. This study investigates the impact of the establishment of the CRE on foreign direct investment inflows in Chinese prefecture-level cities. To perform our analysis, we used panel data of 250 cities in China from 2004 to 2018, and applied the difference in differences (DID) model as a quasi-natural experiment. The results demonstrated that the operation of the CRE had a positive and significant impact on urban FDI inflows, particularly in small and medium-sized cities, low-income cities, and inland cities in China. The robustness of the results was verified using the DIDM and PSM-DID methods.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48677839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Limited Influence of Voluntary Environmental Partnerships on Increasing the Saliency of Freight Emissions in Corporate Sustainability Strategy","authors":"Wendy L. Tate, L. Ellram, Lance W. Saunders","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.62.3.0269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.62.3.0269","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in freight transportation is important for organizations. Transportation emissions are rapidly increasing in developing countries and are the second greatest source of emissions after electricity generation globally. Reducing freight transportation emissions is not a priority on the corporate sustainability agenda for many companies despite their significant impact on climate change. This research explores the paradox between the significant negative impact of freight transportation on climate change and its lack of saliency in corporate strategy using data from in-depth interviews with 12 organizations that are shipper members of SmartWay, a voluntary environmental partnership (VEP). Using mid-range theory (MRT) building beginning with legitimacy theory, this research explores how transportation functions and corporations measure and report freight transportation emissions reduction as part of the environmental sustainability agenda. The results provide insight into how an operationally focused VEP is challenged in gaining strategic organizational importance for its mission of freight emissions reduction and why the current approach of focusing on freight emission issues in transportation has limited traction.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49558384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}