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{"title":"Marijuana Legalization and Truck Safety","authors":"Andrew Balthrop,&nbsp;Jonathan Phares,&nbsp;Ron Gordon,&nbsp;Alex Scott","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12392","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many states have legalized medical and recreational marijuana use in the past decade, which has potential consequences for roadway safety. Using a state-level panel of heavy truck crash statistics from 2005 to 2021 and a difference-in-difference estimation strategy, we test whether legalization has affected crash rates. Our results show that legalization does not increase crash rates on average; however, responses are heterogeneous across states, with Colorado, New Jersey, and Washington (state) showing crash reductions, while Connecticut and Virginia saw crashes increase. These results suggest that marijuana legalization does not have a straightforward relationship with heavy truck accidents, warranting continued research and policy scrutiny.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142084597","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":"People First, Mission Always: A Tension-Centered Approach to Conducting Safe, Effective Logistics","authors":"Matthew A. Douglas,&nbsp;Matthew D. Roberts,&nbsp;Jessica L. Ford","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12393","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jbl.12393","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Logistics organizations' cultures inherently produce tension between safety and operational requirements. Perhaps counterintuitively, such tension is important for organizations to achieve safe practice and effective operational outcomes. In this study, we evaluate how logistics managers and workers create, identify, and manage various tensions between operational requirements and personnel health and safety during an extended period of uncertainty. Using a grounded theory (GT) approach, this research draws on multiple data sources from six global U.S. Air Force logistics organizations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A six-stage GT empirical analysis process revealed a tension-centered approach to safe, effective logistics, presented as a substantive (middle-range) theory with an accompanying process model. Data demonstrate operations- and people-focused cultural elements are activated based on respective requirements, thus inducing tension between potentially competing, yet interrelated, areas. In high-performing organizations, logistics managers and workers address tensions via a balanced focus to alleviate conflicts and conduct safe, effective logistics. This research responds to calls for organizational culture research using qualitative methods while offering implications for theory and practice. Specifically, logistics leaders can use the process model to prepare personnel to safely and effectively handle dynamic operational logistics in the face of unforeseen crises or changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141923540","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":"Job gain and job loss dynamics in the truck transportation industry","authors":"Jason W. Miller,&nbsp;Jonathan Phares,&nbsp;Stephen V. Burks","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12391","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jbl.12391","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Every year, roughly 27% of all jobs in the truck transportation sector (NAICS 484) are reshuffled across motor carriers as existing carriers grow or shrink, new entrants begin operations, and existing firms exit. We take a first look at job gain and job loss dynamics in truck transportation, with a special emphasis on the roles of carrier age and job gain and loss dynamics in the manufacturing sector, the source for most trucking ton-miles. In doing so, we draw on and extend theory in both supply chain management and economics. We test our predictions using archival administrative data covering 1995 through 2019 from the Census Bureau's Business Dynamics Statistics program that tracks the universe of truck transportation firms with employees. Results from fitting a series of mixed effects models provide strong evidence that job gain and job loss dynamics at trucking firms decline rapidly as carriers age. We further find these age-related dynamics are moderated by employment dynamics in the manufacturing sector. Robustness testing shows job gains and losses dynamics in manufacturing are more predictive than the same dynamics in the distribution sector (wholesaling, retailing, and warehousing). We discuss implications of these findings for theory and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141862631","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":"Transformative supply chain research: A new frontier for SCM scholars","authors":"Diane A. Mollenkopf,&nbsp;Terry L. Esper,&nbsp;Hannah J. Stolze,&nbsp;Lucie K. Ozanne","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12389","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This special topic forum (STF) on Transformative Supply Chain Research introduces a new direction in logistics and supply chain research to guide scholars in addressing the wicked problems facing 21st century society. Supply chain professionals are increasingly addressing corporate social responsibility, changing expectations from customers, resource scarcity, a changing climate, civic and political unrest, to name but a few issues of our times. But scholars have only begun to address these issues from a transformative lens, in which we consider the role of logistics and supply chain management in creating well-being outcomes for the benefit of society. This editorial presents a 5-pronged research agenda to guide researchers, while highlighting the three articles in this STF that serve as exemplars of transformative supply chain research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12389","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488906","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":"Perfect couple or toxic relationship? A meta-analysis of the effects and interplays of lean and agile strategies to improve performance","authors":"Katharina Matz,&nbsp;Kai Foerstl,&nbsp;Robert Suurmond","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12390","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Both lean and agile practices have emerged as dominant organizational strategies to improve supply chain and firm performance. In addition, combinations of lean and agile, so-called leagile practices, have developed. Most extant studies have tested the effects of specific subsets of lean, agile, or leagile practices on performance. This study proposes a comprehensive framework to investigate the complementary versus mutually exclusive performance gains of lean, agile, and leagile practices and their combinations. We review the literature and conduct a meta-analysis of 127 empirical studies, yielding a total of 969 effect sizes across 30,741 firms. Our results indicate support for the positive link between lean, leagile, and agile practices and firm performance. Further analyses provide support for some aspects of cumulative capability theory, while others support aspects of trade-off theory. We thereby enlighten the discourse about the cumulative and comparative effects of lean, leagile, and agile leveraging our comprehensive framework of practices. Specifically, our contribution identifies practice combinations that can be considered more valuable performance enhancers than others. Furthermore, our research guides managers on aligning and adapting lean, leagile, and agile practices with their firms' strategic priorities and performance goals. Finally, we showcase areas that require additional empirical investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12390","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488209","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":"“Theory will take you only so far” (Nolan, 2023): In search of greater insight through quantitative, observation-based research","authors":"Theodore Stank,&nbsp;Lance W. Saunders,&nbsp;Alex Scott,&nbsp;Chad W. Autry,&nbsp;Terry L. Esper","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Theories developed for understanding the general management or economic phenomena are increasingly ineffective for explaining logistics/SCM-specific phenomena, despite the best efforts of LSCM researchers to utilize them for those purposes. Unfortunately, the hierarchies and infrastructure in place to ensure LSCM research is theoretically grounded and conducted with scholarly rigor have not advanced to a point where the use of alternative methods to explore such questions is common. The key objective of this paper is to guide where empirical LSCM research could evolve if it took its relationship with theory a step further. Our thesis is that inductive research using empirical data can yield additional insightful answers to relevant questions. We hope that discussion of these topics from a 2024 perspective can spur more research that uses empirical analysis <i>as a starting point</i> to create new theory in LSCM and, importantly, to persuade members working in our field to respect and accept rigorous empirical research conducted outside the traditional deductive, logical positivist paradigm.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140949109","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":"Using middle-range theorizing to advance supply chain management research: A how-to primer and demonstration","authors":"Christopher W. Craighead,&nbsp;Li Cheng,&nbsp;David J. Ketchen Jr.","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12381","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Middle-range theory (MRT) refers to conceptualizations that apply to some, but not all, contexts. While MRT sacrifices generalizability, it yields rich, actionable insights in the contexts where it applies. With MRT's history of industry grounding, the supply chain field offers a strong fit for the development of MRT, but arguably this potential has been underexploited by supply chain management (SCM) researchers. Several conceptual articles have encouraged greater use of MRT and offered important tips, but no step-by-step demonstrations appear in the literature. Such a demonstration could guide supply chain scholars seeking to better implement MRT as well as lead other scholars to start pursuing MRT. In this article, we develop a five-step process and apply it using an MRT (i.e., warm glow theory) and a series of experiments. The experiments focus on how local businesses might shape demand in their favor during societal crises. We discuss how the results inform local businesses and the crisis context but may have limited generalizability to other organizations and normal conditions. Overall, we describe and explain a systematic and viable approach, albeit not the only viable approach, for using MRT to advance SCM research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140907050","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":"Experiments in supply chain management research: A systematic review and future directions","authors":"Craig R. Carter,&nbsp;Renae F. Rockwood,&nbsp;Pankaj C. Patel,&nbsp;Daniel Bachrach,&nbsp;Elliot Bendoly,&nbsp;Scott DuHadway,&nbsp;Lutz Kaufmann","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12382","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The supply chain management discipline has seen a tremendous growth in the use of experimental methods. Given the large number of published studies, the time seems opportune to systematically review the use of such approaches. In this note, we consider multiple dimensions of experimental design used in articles published in six of our premier journals. We present these findings and contemplate opportunities for future applications of experimental methods. In particular, we highlight a need to more regularly conduct and report on the results of power analyses and experimental checks, more carefully contemplate the justification and use of WEIRD (Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic) participants, develop and test mediated theoretical models, and increase our focus on teams as the unit of analysis when using experimental methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140826202","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":"Correction to “Well-being insights from the food insecurity supply chain: A paradox theory perspective on logistics service performance”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12384","url":null,"abstract":"<p>LaDonna M. Thornton, Jessica L. Darby, Tyler R. Morgan, Anthony S. Roath. (2024). Well-being insights from the food insecurity supply chain: A paradox theory perspective on logistics service performance. <i>Journal of Business Logistics</i>, 45(2), 1–21.</p><p>The article title should be “Well-being insights from the food insecurity supply chain: A logistics service quality perspective.”</p><p>Due to author oversight, the correct article title was not included in the published version of the article. The statement has now been added to the article.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140826203","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":"Conducting engaged logistics and supply chain research: From real-world problems to journal publication","authors":"Henrik Sternberg,&nbsp;Lars Mathiassen,&nbsp;Steven Carnovale,&nbsp;Robert Glenn Richey Jr.,&nbsp;Beth Davis-Sramek","doi":"10.1111/jbl.12380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the heart of the criticism is questioning the importance of the problem being studied and the usefulness of the insights and solutions offered. Research that will be published next month in the <i>Journal of Business Logistics</i> (<i>JBL</i>) by Ted Stank and his colleagues has gone as far as to suggest that “The positivist research tradition has served the field well in offering empirically supportable findings. However, it has proven limited in its ability to address the evolving complexities of modern supply chains” (Stank et al., <span>2024</span>). This is an important statement for journals like <i>JBL</i> that work to provide valuable managerial implications to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and the LCSM field as a whole (Davis-Sramek &amp; Richey, <span>2021</span>).</p><p>More <i>engaged research</i> within the LSCM discipline will help move the needle in the right direction. Engaged research is grounded in problematization (Alvesson &amp; Sandberg, <span>2011</span>) as a critical step toward identifying exciting research problems and articulating compelling solutions. As such, we have two objectives: to clarify what engaged research is and to present a design approach (Mathiassen, <span>2017</span>) that researchers can use to navigate the complex process of conducting engaged research that addresses current real-world LSCM problems. Accordingly, we explain what engaged research is in the broader context of business research based on the pioneering work by Van de Ven and Johnson (<span>2006</span>), followed by a brief overview of engaged research in LSCM. Next, we elaborate on Mathiassen's design approach to engaged research with examples from LSCM. We conclude by discussing how LSCM scholars can best use the suggested approach. Staying true to the idea of reflexive and innovative research endeavors, we avoid offering “cookie-cutter” prescriptions on how to do research and instead aim to inspire and encourage LSCM scholars to do more engaged research.</p><p>Engaged research offers a wide range of rigorous research approaches and methodologies that share a common interest in collaborative engagement with the community. It aims to improve, understand, or investigate an issue of industrial or societal interest or concern, including environmental and societal challenges. Please note that while engaged research specifically focuses on conducting research collaboratively with external stakeholders to address real-world issues, engaged scholarship (a term frequently used) encompasses a broader scope of activities beyond the specific research context and a more immersive approach to the world surrounding us. While this broader, more holistic scope is highly desirable, it is beyond the focus of this editorial.</p><p>Van de Ven is typically regarded as the pioneer of engaged research. In his seminal book “Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research,” Van de Ven and Johnson (<span>2006</span>)","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.12380","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140807340","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}