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{"title":"“Love thy neighbor, but don’t pull down your hedge”: The influence of interdependence with major customers on supplier productivity","authors":"Ta-Wei Kao ,&nbsp;Hung-Chung Su ,&nbsp;Young K. Ro ,&nbsp;Wayne Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100969","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100969","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research examines how mutual and relative dependence on major customers impact supplier productivity. We investigate two research questions: (1) Does the extent of mutual dependence between a supplier and its major customer base exhibit a non-linear impact on supplier productivity? (2) How does the combined influence of the supplier’s relative dependence and mutual dependence on major customers affect supplier productivity? Using major customer relationship data from Compustat segment files, we construct a longitudinal dataset in the manufacturing industry for the period 1998–2017. We estimate supplier productivity accounting for selection bias and employ the fixed effect regression approach to examine the effects of mutual dependence and relative dependence on supplier productivity. Moreover, we address potential endogeneity in the model with the control function approach. Our results indicate an inverted curvilinear relationship between a supplier’s mutual dependence on its major customers and its productivity: While increased mutual dependence initially enhances productivity, the marginal returns diminish. Interestingly, the curvilinear effect becomes more prominent when the supplier’s relative dependence increases. Our study’s findings offer three best-practice strategies including (1) spread and anchor risk, (2) reduce relative dependence, and (3) deepen customer understanding, all of which help suppliers manage the interdependence in major customer relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"31 1","pages":"Article 100969"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535244","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":"The impact of perceived buyer justice on the diverse supplier-buyer relationship building","authors":"Feigao Huang ,&nbsp;Wendy L. Tate ,&nbsp;Andrea Sordi","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span><span>The origins of supplier diversity in the U.S. can be traced back to the Civil Rights Movement<span> in the 1950s and 1960s, with legislations promulgated and agencies established to facilitate market participation of many groups. Since that time, companies have been incorporating diverse supplier businesses into their procurement strategy and supplier selection decisions. However, how buying companies manage diverse suppliers in supplier diversity programs is under-researched. This research takes the perspective of a diverse supplier and investigates how the diverse supplier perceives the relationship with the buyer. Drawing on justice theory, the impact of the diverse supplier’s perception of the buying company’s justice behavior (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice) on the supplier’s commitment to, and investment in, the diverse supplier-buyer relationship is investigated. Survey data from 131 women-owned businesses were used to test theoretically derived hypotheses. Analysis shows that perceived buyer distributive justice and interpersonal justice positively affect supplier commitment, and perceived buyer informational justice positively relates to diverse supplier investment in the relationship. Perceived buyer procedural justice, however, has a negative effect on diverse supplier commitment. Diverse supplier commitment and supplier investment positively influence the diverse supplier’s relationship performance. The results contribute to a nuanced understanding of different justice dimensions and offer managerial insights to buying companies on better managing diverse supplier-buyer relationships to increase </span></span>inclusivity in the </span>supply chain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100909"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140404320","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":"Reputational enablers for supplier diversity: An exploratory approach on the inclusion of war veterans and disabled people","authors":"Camila Lee Park ,&nbsp;Mauro Fracarolli Nunes ,&nbsp;Jose A.D. Machuca","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100898","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100898","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates whether the inclusion of war veterans and disabled people in supplier diversity programs grants firms with reputational gains. With preliminary evidence collected in the <em>content analysis</em> of supplier diversity programs and diverse groups considered by S&amp;P500's top 100 companies, we conducted a duo-factorial scenario-based experiment with a multi-stakeholder approach, exploring the reactions of the general public, customers, investors, and potential suppliers to these initiatives. In particular, we analyse whether their views on companies' benevolence and competence (trust) are affected. We also investigate the potential impacts on these stakeholders' overall attitude towards firms, as the construct represents a proxy of corporate reputation. The empirical results show that including these groups does not impact the way companies are perceived, suggesting that the communication of supplier diversity programs is not always efficient in creating positive images (e.g., greenwashing, social washing). We discuss these outcomes in the context of stakeholder theory and in the debate contrasting the strategic and moral incentives for adopting supplier diversity programs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100898"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139583485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are gender diversity issues a hidden problem in logistics and supply chain management? Building research themes through a systematic literature review","authors":"Biao Yang,&nbsp;Nachiappan Subramanian,&nbsp;Shaima Al Harthy","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100937","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100937","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The literature has extensively examined the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable supply chain management, but much less attention has been given to social aspects, specifically gender diversity (GD) issues in the supply chain. This study systematically reviews the literature to determine the current situation of GD in the supply chain and develop an appropriate research agenda of emerging themes. 49 peer-reviewed articles were selected for this study. The descriptive analysis confirms the growing importance and relevance of GD issues in logistics and supply chain management (LSCM), and the wide dispersion of publications across 31 journals also reflects the broad scope of GD issues in LSCM. Following content analysis, the selected studies are classified and analysed according to career-related factors, barriers and drivers for female participation in the supply chain, diversity management, gender differences in decision-making, supplier diversity, supply chain performance, gendered global value chains and production networks, and GD and modern slavery in supply chains. Despite an increase in the number of studies addressing GD in supply chains, this article demonstrates that many research areas remain unexplored. It explicitly points out five major gaps in the literature and develops a research framework and propositions. The research topics reflect potential areas of exploration to advance supply chain literature related to GD as a social issue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100937"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141023070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving supplier diversity and inclusion in supply chains","authors":"Ying Yang,&nbsp;Frank Wiengarten,&nbsp;Jas Kalra","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100973"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142720478","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":"From checking the box to driving impact – Perspectives on how to develop a supplier diversity program that is less narrowly scoped and more wholeheartedly adopted","authors":"Remko van Hoek ,&nbsp;Antoine Bagot ,&nbsp;Shannon Sexton","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100957","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100957","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Supplier diversity programs are a concrete way for companies to act out Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments and strategies. Literature however suggests that commitment to supplier diversity programs from buyers, suppliers and stakeholders in the business can be less than wholehearted. The scoping of supplier diversity programs can also be narrow and somewhat binary, only partially reflecting the multi-faceted nature of diversity. This paper contributes to this special issue a study of three supplier diversity programs and shares perspectives of supplier diversity leaders in the case companies studied. We find opportunities for companies to move from a focus on D&amp;I compliance, towards a focus on competitive advantage and ESG impact. We suggest approaches for scoping and designing supplier diversity programs that more closely mirror the complexity of diversity and suggest expanded buying criteria. Finally, we contribute future research pathways and managerial suggestions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100957"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180545","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":"Base of the chain (BoC) sourcing challenges: The role of institutional voids and social agency problems","authors":"Maryam Zomorrodi ,&nbsp;Sajad Fayezi ,&nbsp;Lydia Bals","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100953","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100953","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Due to various factors, including the institutional context of suppliers, the successful implementation of sustainability initiatives remains a persistent challenge for purchasing and supply management (PSM) professionals. Sourcing from the Base of the Chain (BoC) requires buyers to be cognizant of and assess challenges inherent in engaging with the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) institutional context. Designing governance structures that facilitate the simultaneous pursuit of economic and social goals demands a thorough understanding of these challenges and their contextual antecedents. The literature has addressed institutional voids and incompatibilities between buyer-BoC supplier institutional contexts as critical factors informing interventions aimed at overcoming sourcing challenges. Drawing upon social agency theory, our study advances these debates. We argue that the broader institutional and social context serves as the contextual antecedents to principal-agent (P-A) relationships established between buyers and their BoC suppliers. This perspective provides a more enriched explanation for the antecedents of BoC sourcing challenges. We draw on a multiple case study incorporating 31 interviews and archival data of five BoC sourcing programs within the Australian agribusiness sector. Our findings shed light on how BoC institutional voids cause BoC sourcing challenges across supplier and product domains by inducing hidden information, hidden action, and hidden logic as social agency problems. Hidden logic, a new type of social agency problem identified in our study, refers to the agents' socially constructed sets of assumptions, values, beliefs, and traditions that are invisible to the principals. Consequently, we present insights into why governance structures addressing BoC sourcing challenges may vary across institutional contexts, providing practical guidance for buyers in developed economies concerning the subsequent design and execution of effective BoC sourcing strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100953"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141843932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The circular business models of third-party loop operators: An activity-based view on performing activities internally or externally","authors":"Ernst Johannes Prosman,&nbsp;Nizar Abdelkafi,&nbsp;Verónica León-Bravo","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100955","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100955","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Third-party loop operators play an important role in the circular economy (CE) by closing the resource loops for other firms. These third-party loop operators face a key business model decision: whether to perform CE activities in-house or externally. We adopt the activity-based view (ABV) as a theoretical lens to divide the CE into five activities: collection, sorting, pre-processing, transformation, and integration. By analysing 79 third-party loop operators using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), we found that these activities are performed in two bundles. When third-party loop operators perform the collection activity in-house, they are likely to perform the sorting activity in-house as well. The remaining activities (pre-processing, transformation, and integration) are also performed together, either in-house or externally. Furthermore, we identify some boundary conditions that affect why these activity bundles are performed in-house or externally. When supply concentration is high, third-party loop operators tend to perform collection and sorting in-house because access to highly concentrated sources can result in a competitive advantage. When the uncertainty about waste condition is low, third-party loop operators can develop efficient pre-processing, transformation, and integration activities in-house. Activity gaps emerge when no actor in the market can carry out the activity. In this case, third-party loop operators fill the gap by carrying out the activity internally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100955"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can digital transformation improve firm resilience to supply chain disruption? The role of diversification strategies","authors":"Ying Xu ,&nbsp;Fu Jia ,&nbsp;Liukai Wang ,&nbsp;Lujie Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span><span>Our study investigates the role of digital transformation (DT) in promoting firm resilience to supply chain disruptions. Based on </span>resource dependence theory (RDT) and anchored in the </span>organizational structure<span> design literature, we propose a moderating effect for diversification strategies, including sourcing diversification, business diversification, and geographic diversification. To verify this, we collect data based on a sample of 2486 Chinese listed companies that experienced supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19 in 2020, of which 1716 companies implemented DT and 770 companies did not. The changes in firm resilience based on five operating performance metrics for the sample group (those firms implementing DT) are compared against a control group (those without implementing DT) of similar size and industry. The results show that, in terms of percentage of change in operating performance, firms implementing in DT are more resilient than those that do not. Moreover, the sourcing and geographic diversification strategies play a positive moderating role in the relationship between DT and firm resilience. Additionally, our findings partially support the view that business diversification plays a positive moderating role in our proposed relationship for a certain subsample. These results contribute to the DT-resilience literature by unlocking the value and potential of interplay between DT and different diversification strategies in building firm resilience, and underscore the importance of reducing dependence on external resources in the face of supply chain disruptions.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100952"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141705533","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":"Investigating supply chain participants’ circular economy action effects on firm financial performance from a stakeholder theory perspective","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100903","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100903","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The circular economy<span> (CE) model has recently emerged and been practiced by many firms due to pressure for desirability of sustainability. It is important for researchers and practitioners to understand the effects of firms' CE actions on their own and their supply chain partners' financial performance to better implement CE practices. However, existing literature has not analyzed the impact of firms' CE actions from a holistic supply chain framework to find how a firm's CE actions affect its supply chain partners' financial performance. In this study, we investigate this issue from the </span></span>stakeholder theory<span> perspective with empirical evidence from the China Stock Market and Accounting Research database and the Chinese Research Data Services Platform database for 2006–2021 to perform regressions. Our findings suggest a firm's CE actions have both a positive direct effect to improve its own financial performance and a spillover effect<span> to enhance its partners' (i.e., suppliers' and customers') financial performance. Additionally, a higher supply chain concentration level strengthens the CE direct effect. Further, we find a positive moderating influence of industry competition on stimulating the CE direct effect and its positive moderating effect on the spillover effect of downstream customers' CE efforts on the financial performance of the focal firms. Our findings urge firms to implement and encourage their partners to make CE efforts to enhance their financial performance. Firms should also strengthen centralized purchasing and supply with downstream partners to utilize the amplified CE efforts' effect, particularly when they face fierce competition.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 4","pages":"Article 100903"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140467940","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}