{"title":"“Putting your money where your mouth is”: An empirical study on buyers’ preferences and willingness to pay for blockchain-enabled sustainable supply chain transparency","authors":"Sukrit Vinayavekhin , Aneesh Banerjee , Feng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates how buyers assess the importance of various attributes of supply chain sustainability disclosed by suppliers. These include different types of disclosure (i.e., product, process, and sourcing network), self- and third-party verified disclosure, partial and full disclosure, as well as the attributes associated with information disclosure using blockchain technology: immutability and update frequency. Building on concepts in signalling theory and inter-organisational trust, our research uses a choice-based conjoint experimental design to elicit responses from 234 managers with decision-making roles in procurement. Using this design, we calculate the relative importance of attributes, part-worth utility, and marginal willingness to pay, and test hypotheses about buyer preferences and willingness to pay. Our research reveals that buyers prefer suppliers with sustainability signals that span across different types of disclosure and methods of disclosure. It emphasises the importance of how sustainability information is disclosed, highlighting buyer trust in self-disclosure and a preference for comprehensive, regularly updated information. However, we find mixed results for buyers' willingness to pay. For instance, buyers prefer third-party verified supply chain transparency, but we do not find a significantly higher willingness to pay for such information compared to self-disclosure. The implications suggest a competitive advantage for suppliers adopting voluntary disclosure, prioritising disclosure based on buyer preferences, and recognising the limited direct impact of blockchain technology. Our research contributes to advancing our understanding of information disclosure in supply chain transparency and presents new avenues of inquiry into the value of blockchain-enabled platforms in supply chain sustainability reporting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 2","pages":"Article 100900"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1478409224000062/pdfft?md5=22ab7a8221ca645e2c014570de45c340&pid=1-s2.0-S1478409224000062-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770716","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":"Barriers to circular economy: Insights from a small electric vehicle battery manufacturer","authors":"Elmira Parviziomran, Viktor Elliot","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100905","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in the transition to circular economy (CE). The CE transition for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with a focus on manufacturing SMEs underpins this research, which explores the potential barriers to implementing a CE business model. Barriers to CE transition are a growing research area, and this study makes two key contributions to the literature. First, we explore the interactions between different barriers to CE transition. Second, we do this through an in-depth case study of a small enterprise at the center of the electrification and mobility ecosystem that specializes in high-voltage batteries for special vehicles. Our results show that barriers related to the regulatory framework, market structure, actors and their attitudes, structure, technology, and tools hinder CE transition. Moreover, the interactions between these barriers keep the system unbalanced by reinforcing loops and making CE transition more challenging.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 2","pages":"Article 100905"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1478409224000116/pdfft?md5=44eff05a6d83f483e45d35410a2f8f3d&pid=1-s2.0-S1478409224000116-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140125771","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":"A seat at the table: The future of purchasing and supply management","authors":"Carmela Di Mauro, Esmee Peters, Steven Carnovale","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 100908"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199536","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":"Does history really repeat itself? An empirical investigation of recurring misconduct violations in public procurement","authors":"Justin T. Kistler , Luv Sharma , Jayanth Jayaram , Stephanie Eckerd","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100893","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Public procurement of goods and services accounts for a significant portion of government budgets. Among contracts awarded annually by the United States federal government, a disproportionate amount of total spend is given to a relatively small number of contractor firms, many of whom have committed government contract misconduct in the past. We leverage insights from the contracting literature and organizational learning theory to understand the relationship between past contract misconduct and the likelihood of a subsequent contract misconduct violation, along with contextual factors that could influence this relationship. Using composite misconduct data captured from a longitudinal dataset of United States Department of Justice (DOJ) public procurement, a probit regression analysis reveals that firms with a history of government contract misconduct violations are increasingly likely to commit a subsequent violation, yet this relationship is not linear. Further empirical analysis reveals characteristics of contracting firms and purchasing relationships which moderate this phenomenon. Our findings contribute to the literature by providing empirical support regarding the relationship between past and future contract misconduct violations within public procurement relationships. We also offer several implications to practitioners and policymakers to support the identification and management of repeat contract misconduct violators.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 100893"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138743625","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":"Driven by supply chain ambidexterity. Substitutable and complementary effects of supply chain emergence and control on triadic relational performance","authors":"Artur Swierczek","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100894","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the increasing level of supply chain complexity, the mechanisms of emergence and control have become essential for achieving superior performance. To operationalize the relationships between the two mechanisms, we develop the dimensions of balance emergence-control (BEC) and combined emergence-control (CEC). While BEC highlights the need to match two mechanisms that are substitutes, CEC treats emergence and control rather as complements that reinforce one another. Additionally, we also develop the construct of supply chain ambidexterity as a conglomerate of exploitation and exploration practices performed within service triads. In this study, we investigate the effects of supply chain ambidexterity on emergence and control, and their resulting effects on triadic relational performance.</p><p>To develop the research model and test hypotheses, hypothetic-deductive logic was employed to underpin the quantitative survey-based methodology. The data for the analysis was derived from 350 service triads operating in Europe. To ensure the robustness of the results, Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out, followed by hierarchical regression analysis and path analysis. The findings show that while supply chain ambidexterity has a positive effect on emergence, it has a negative effect on control. The results also demonstrate that when applied independently, balance emergence-control and combined emergence-control have a respective positive and negative effect on triadic relational performance. Interestingly however, when applied collectively, balance emergence-control and combined emergence-control demonstrate a positive effect on triadic relational performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 100894"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139374380","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}
Zachary S. Rogers , Sina Golara , Yousef Abdulsalam , Dale S. Rogers
{"title":"Protect me not: The effect of tariffs on U.S. supply networks","authors":"Zachary S. Rogers , Sina Golara , Yousef Abdulsalam , Dale S. Rogers","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 2018, the United States imposed numerous tariffs with the stated intent of protecting U.S. firms from international competitors. These tariffs have had a substantial impact on supply chains which were not well understood. While tariffs can provide some protection to certain industries, they can also create inefficiencies for the industries they were designed to protect, as well as for their supply chain partners. We analyze the impacts of the tariffs imposed by the United States in 2018, on the industries they were intended to protect (steel, semiconductors, agricultural equipment, and chemicals industries) as well as on their suppliers and customers. We perform an event study to analyze the effects of four discrete suites of tariffs on the firm value of 691 publicly traded U.S. firms. We utilize resource dependence theory (RDT) to better understand the net impact of tariffs on protected industries and their supply chains. The results demonstrate that the implementation of the 2018 tariffs had an overall negative impact on firm value, leading to a decrease in the value of domestic producers within the protected industries and mixed financial effects on firms in their supplier and customer industries. These findings demonstrate the ripple effect of unintended consequences that tariffs can lead to throughout supply chains, motivating further theoretical development and informing trade policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 100897"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139881097","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}
Robert Suurmond , Finn Wynstra , André Vermeij , Erick Johan Haag
{"title":"Text mining and network analytics for literature reviews: Exploring the landscape of purchasing and supply management research","authors":"Robert Suurmond , Finn Wynstra , André Vermeij , Erick Johan Haag","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100892","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100892","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we state and debate the use and usefulness of text similarity and network analytics using natural language processing for our field. While previous reviews of Purchasing and Supply Management have relied on manual coding and classification, the large scale and variety of the field calls for new approaches. In this Notes and Debates article, we therefore review different approaches from bibliometric and scientometric studies to explore literature using (semi)automated approaches. We exemplify one approach, leveraging text similarity and network visualization, to complement earlier analysis. Along the way, we discuss the researcher’s role at critical vantage points in reviews that are augmented by natural language processing. We compare and contrast the results of this exploration to previous manual reviews and sketch opportunities and provide recommendations for future use.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 100892"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1478409223000808/pdfft?md5=655a1d5d8144ec31645cbcd8d9e3d77f&pid=1-s2.0-S1478409223000808-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138581409","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 impact of suppliers' CSR controversies on buyers' market value: The moderating role of social capital","authors":"Yang Yang , Yan Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100904","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A firm's CSR controversies can affect not only the firm itself but also its supply chain partners. However, existing studies have predominantly focused on the influence of a firm's own CSR controversies; the spillover effect along supply chains has received insufficient attention. This study examines the impact of suppliers' CSR controversies on buyers' market value, as well as the moderating role of buyers' social capital. Using data from 462 buyer-supplier dyads of Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2019, we find that suppliers' CSR controversies are significantly negatively related to buyers' market value, and that environmental controversies have a stronger negative effect than social controversies. This negative association can be alleviated by buyers' social capital in the forms of political, business, and financial capital. Our study has significant implications for both research and practice in the increasingly important domain of CSR management in supply chains.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 100904"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1478409224000104/pdfft?md5=bd9fe946226a1b2c24b981cf9b905c4a&pid=1-s2.0-S1478409224000104-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140332840","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}
Jan Martin Spreitzenbarth , Christoph Bode , Heiner Stuckenschmidt
{"title":"Artificial intelligence and machine learning in purchasing and supply management: A mixed-methods review of the state-of-the-art in literature and practice","authors":"Jan Martin Spreitzenbarth , Christoph Bode , Heiner Stuckenschmidt","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Artificial intelligence and machine learning are key technologies for purchasing organizations worldwide and their usage is still in a nascent stage. This systematic review offers an overview of the state-of-the-art literature and practice, where 46 works meeting the inclusion criteria were interactively classified in 11 use case clusters. The work follows the content analysis approach where the material evaluation was empirically enriched with 20 interviews to assess the cluster's business value and ease of implementation through triangulation. This is the first systematic review in the area of operations and supply chain management utilizing the Computer Classification System as the de facto standard in computer science for clarity in the terminology of these emerging technologies. In matching the literature search with the interview results, a mismatch was found between the reviewed literature and the expert's assessments. For instance, the cluster cost analysis deserves higher research attention as well as supplier sustainability. Moreover, there seems to be a gap in the operational area, which many believe to be first considered due to data availability. The insights may guide researchers and executives to better understand the dynamic capabilities needed to successfully steer the organization in the transformation toward procurement 4.0.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 100896"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1478409224000025/pdfft?md5=4e57bc7351d089a6d6b07635de201dc0&pid=1-s2.0-S1478409224000025-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139922353","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":"Supply chain disruption response and recovery: The role of power and governance","authors":"Chang-Hun Lee , Byung-Gak Son , Sinéad Roden","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100866","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2023.100866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How buyer-supplier relationships manage and recover from periods of distress is a critical managerial challenge. We examine this issue specifically by looking at buyer-supplier relationships that are recovering from a supply chain disruption. Governance studies have been central in the supplier management literature for some time, and we are motivated to understand the role of governance for relationships in distress and the impact of power dynamics in this context. We explore the impact of contractual and relational governance on disruption response and recovery and examine the moderating role of power that the buyer might leverage over their suppliers following a disruption. Power is conceptualised as threat of coercion and promise of reward, and thus reflects the two contrasting dimensions of power. Addressing common concerns with single respondent surveys, we used a cross-sectional survey to collect matched pair data from 239 US manufacturers and examined the dyadic perspectives of both buyers and suppliers, analysing the data using hierarchical OLS regression. We found that contractual and relational governance both enhance disruption response and recovery by encouraging supplier cooperation. We also report that threat of coercion from the buyer, and the promise of reward for a supplier, is not effective in reinforcing the positive impact that contractual governance has on disruption response and recovery performance. However, we find that the promise of a reward does enhance the effectiveness of relational governance in improving the response and recovery.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"29 5","pages":"Article 100866"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46640685","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}