{"title":"Purchasing and supply management education chronicles: crafting future leaders","authors":"Michela Guida, Alessio Ronchini, Antonella Moretto, Stefano Ronchi","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents an analysis of two courses in the fields of Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). The aim is to investigate how teaching content and methodologies can be adapted to align with evolving global trends in PSM, while also evaluating their effectiveness in developing the skills essential for professionals in this field. Drawing on a longitudinal tracking of six years, we examine the courses at three levels: course topics, teaching methods, and assessment methods. We link these three course components with the skills required in PSM. This model categorizes procurement skills into <em>technical</em>, <em>interpersonal</em>, <em>internal and external (to the company)</em>, and <em>strategic</em> skills. The findings highlight the significance of integrating both theoretical foundations and practical applications in PSM education. The study provides insights into how PSM courses can be designed to foster the development of both hard and soft skills that are crucial for procurement professionals. Moreover, the results highlight the importance of regular course reviews to accommodate emerging trends and industry demands. This study makes both theoretical and practical contributions. Theoretically, it offers professors and lecturers a comprehensive framework for designing PSM courses. Practically, it provides managers with guidance on collaborating with academic institutions to promote project-based learning with students, which can help attract talent and advance applied research in the field of PSM.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"32 1","pages":"Article 101084"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oops, they did it again! How do buying firms respond to resurgent supplier sustainability incidents","authors":"Andrew P. Kach , Mehrdokht Pournader","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Buying firms adopt and utilize various strategies in response to criticism from stakeholders following supply chain sustainability-related disruptions; however, responses to supplier incidents may only be temporary, and over time, incidents tend to re-occur (‘resurgence’). The resurgence of similar supplier sustainability incidents (SSIs), even after perceived attention from various stakeholders, has received limited prior attention. Using a mixed methods approach, we first analyzed global media incident reports from 2007 to 2016 for the top ten most scrutinized corporations in terms of SSIs. We identified thematic patterns across incident severity and institutional distance as a basis for the drivers of resurgent SSIs amongst suppliers. Following this, we developed a framework through which factors that shape sustainability-related supply chain decision making by firms could be tested via factorial designed experiments. The results suggest that firms are less likely to hold suppliers responsible for SSIs when the severity is lower, distance is greater, or the incident has not previously occurred (i.e., not resurgent). Furthermore, these incidents tend to be taken more seriously contingent upon the firm's relationship with their supplier, particularly when environmental incidents occur.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"32 1","pages":"Article 101106"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supply decisions for circular business models: What are they, and why do they matter?","authors":"Minttu Laukkanen , Nina Tura , Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Purchasing and supply decisions face new challenges due to resource scarcity and the urgent need for solutions. While circular business models—which focus on closing, slowing, narrowing, and intensifying resource loops to keep resources in use longer, minimize waste, maximize value, and reduce virgin material consumption—offer essential solutions, little is currently known about supply decisions within such models. This qualitative exploratory study investigates supply decisions and their associated criteria for circular business models. We focus on clothing libraries, a novel circular business model where members borrow curated garments. Drawing on insights from six clothing libraries and 10 suppliers, we developed a framework for supply decisions for circular business models. This framework shows four selection decisions as key decisions for circular business models: 1) supplier, 2) product, 3) material, and 4) supply channel. The results also distinguish between criteria for the upstream and downstream aspects of the supply chain. This highlights the importance of understanding the entire lifecycle of products and materials. While our study identifies a wide range of criteria for supply decisions for circular business models, it does not propose a fixed order for their consideration. Instead, these decisions rely on multiple sets of criteria across different levels (supplier, product, material, channel). The sequence and weighting of these criteria vary, depending on expert knowledge applied case-by-case. This approach allows supply decisions to effectively support circular business models in facilitating more sustainable resource use. As a contribution to purchasing and supply management, our study elaborates on circular sourcing and supplier selection by expanding the scope of circularity criteria and deepening the understanding of individual criteria, but also challenging the conventional approach of identifying and weighting criteria.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"32 1","pages":"Article 101079"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea S. Patrucco, Carmela Di Mauro, Steven Carnovale
{"title":"Getting past the desk rejection: five critical gates to clear","authors":"Andrea S. Patrucco, Carmela Di Mauro, Steven Carnovale","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2026.101109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2026.101109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"32 1","pages":"Article 101109"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146074109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
François C. Giraud-Carrier , Carolee Cosgrove , Hamed Qahri-Saremi
{"title":"How does supplier integration improve firm performance? Insights from a meta-analytic structural equation modeling study","authors":"François C. Giraud-Carrier , Carolee Cosgrove , Hamed Qahri-Saremi","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Supplier integration is heralded by researchers as a fundamental supply chain management capability that supports a broad range of firm performance outcomes. Yet open questions remain around how the dimensions of supplier integration (information, operational, and relational integration) shape firm performance. Closing this gap is important as managers need strong evidence and guidance to identify, justify, prioritize, maintain, and defend investments in the broad set of activities needed to turn their supplier integration efforts into a strategic asset, and to guard against cost-cutting mandates that are not in the best interest of the firm. In this study, we draw on 184 primary studies (41,498 observations) and state-of-the-art two-stage meta-analytic structural equation modeling to empirically test our holistic structural model that shows how efficiency, effectiveness, customer experience, and product innovation explain the degree to which information, operational, and relational integration contribute to financial and market measures of firm performance. Our results and subsequent discussion may help supply chain managers better understand and maximize the impact of their supplier integration efforts, troubleshoot issues, and prepare for the opportunities and challenges in modern supply chains. Some recommendations include: (1) prioritize relational integration with suppliers above information integration and operational integration; (2) be cautious when prioritizing efficiency as an end; and (3) stay focused on creating superior customer experiences and innovative products and services when designing and implementing supplier integration initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"32 1","pages":"Article 101055"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruth N.F. Sloot, Leentje Volker, Johannes T. Voordijk
{"title":"Co-creation of understanding through early buyer-supplier interaction: Sensemaking and sensegiving in public infrastructure tenders","authors":"Ruth N.F. Sloot, Leentje Volker, Johannes T. Voordijk","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past decades, public procurement has shifted towards strategic, value-based approaches. These methods allow for a better understanding and alignment of interests between buyers and suppliers in the public domain by fostering early buyer-supplier interaction through formalized dialogues. While extant literature has offered important insights into the benefits of early buyer-supplier interaction, little attention has been given to understanding the practices upon which these actors draw in this interaction. This paper investigates the early interaction between buyers and suppliers in a major infrastructure project using a sensemaking and sensegiving perspective. Drawing on a case study of a Competitive Dialogue procedure in the Netherlands, we identify four interrelated sensemaking and sensegiving practices that form iterative cycles of meaning construction: buyer sensegiving, supplier sensemaking, supplier sensegiving, and buyer sensemaking. By examining how these practices unfold under formal constraints and the competitive pressure of a tender, the study contributes to sensemaking theory by showing how meaning construction operates across organizational boundaries in institutionalized, procedural and competitive settings. We also advance purchasing and supply management research by introducing vocabulary for analyzing early-stage interaction in public tenders. Finally, we contribute to public procurement literature by providing a practice-based perspective on how formal procedures like a competitive dialogue shape the depth, scope, and direction of buyer-supplier interaction in the tender of complex projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"32 1","pages":"Article 101074"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supply network attention by SMEs – a theory elaborating study","authors":"Chris Ellegaard, Jim Lozinski, Hanne Kragh","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines SME managers’ attention to operations and supply chain management issues and their decision-making process. To generate insights on this process, we carried out a qualitative theory-elaborating study, seeking to elaborate on established theory on strategic attention, but in the context of SMEs making operations and supply management decisions. We find that SME attention and decision-making is constrained by supplier agency in what we term <em>outside-in attention</em>. In addition, SME decision-makers pay attention to the capabilities, resources, and relationships with suppliers, as they evaluate issues and answers, but frequently fail to take the present and future interconnectedness of issues into account. We contribute to the established literature on SME supply management by developing a model of SME operations and supply chain management attention and decision-making and present a series of propositions subject to further research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"31 5","pages":"Article 101013"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graça Miranda Silva , Andrea S. Patrucco , Paulo J. Gomes
{"title":"Advancing green supply chains through downstream digitalization: An information processing theory perspective","authors":"Graça Miranda Silva , Andrea S. Patrucco , Paulo J. Gomes","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span>Environmental sustainability<span> has become a critical priority in supply chain management, driven by evolving customer expectations and regulatory pressures. While </span></span>digitalization's<span><span> role in improving operational efficiency is well-established, its specific impacts on environmental performance through downstream supply chain processes remain underexplored. Drawing on Information Processing<span><span><span> Theory (IPT), this study investigates how downstream supply chain digitalization (DSCD) enhances information processing capabilities, enabling firms to effectively implement distinct green </span>supply chain management (GSCM) practices—internal environmental management, eco-design, green purchasing, and investment recovery. Using </span>structural equation modeling on data collected from 373 manufacturing firms in Portugal, our findings demonstrate that internal and external GSCM practices mediate the relationship between DSCD and EP. Specifically, internal </span></span>environmental management systems are foundational in facilitating external GSCM practices, thus amplifying DSCD's impact on EP. This research contributes to the supply chain management literature by highlighting how downstream digitalization enables firms to address customer-centric sustainability challenges and by emphasizing the essential role of internal structures in supporting environmental goals. Practically, the study guides supply chain managers in aligning downstream digitalization investments strategically with targeted sustainability initiatives to enhance environmental outcomes.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"31 5","pages":"Article 101015"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social embeddedness: How start-ups leverage knowledge-based and relationship-based networks for supplier selection and management","authors":"Hervé Legenvre , Neale G. O'Connor","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how 16 hardware start-ups navigate supplier selection and management challenges within the Greater Bay Area, which includes Shenzhen, Hong Kong SAR, and Macao. According to the literature, start-ups encounter a range of constraints, including limited resources, lack of experience, challenges in establishing legitimacy, and concerns related to intellectual property. It is, therefore, challenging for them to find and manage suppliers effectively. Our findings reveal that these start-ups overcome such challenges by embedding themselves in an entrepreneurial ecosystem comprising accelerators, informal networks, and consultants. This ecosystem facilitates critical resource access and plays an essential role in bridging knowledge gaps and mitigating supplier-related risks. Specifically, we identify how entrepreneurial ecosystem intermediaries facilitate supplier selection through knowledge transfer and relationship building, supplier management through design support, communication assistance, and cultural bridging. Based on our analysis, we develop a model of social embeddedness that explains how hardware start-ups leverage entrepreneurial ecosystems to enhance their procurement performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"31 5","pages":"Article 101058"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weathering the tempest: Supply chain network position, natural disasters, and firm performance","authors":"Pankaj C. Patel","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span><span><span>Drawing on resilience theory in operations management<span> and social network theory, this study investigates how a firm's </span></span>supply chain network position affects its performance following natural disasters. By integrating data on county-level natural disasters at factory locations, we find that while the disaster hit ratio does not directly impact firm performance (ROA), a firm's </span>eigenvector centrality in the supply chain network positively moderates this relationship. Surprisingly, high hub centrality worsens the </span>negative impact<span> of natural disasters, possibly due to coordination challenges. Degree centrality has no significant moderating effect. These results are robust to various performance measures, non-linear effects, and model specifications. The research underscores the strategic importance of managing key supply chain connections to boost operational resilience.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"31 5","pages":"Article 101036"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}