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{"title":"A Decision-Support System for Prioritizing the Transformational Dynamics of Autonomous Trucks Deployment","authors":"Emmanuel Anu Thompson,&nbsp;Pan Lu,&nbsp;Xinyi Yang,&nbsp;Ryan Jones,&nbsp;Denver Tolliver","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The implementation of autonomous technologies in commercial freight transportation has advanced significantly, with pilot programs demonstrating technical viability on major interstate highways. However, existing studies on freight innovation predominantly focus on technology adoption and efficiency metrics, often neglecting the broader organizational consequences of automation in logistics. Thus, the integration of autonomous trucks represents more than labor substitution or marginal productivity improvement. It initiates reconfigurations of freight flow control, service contracting, and the distribution of operational authority. Accordingly, this study analyzes the transformational dynamics of autonomous trucking deployment within North Dakota State's freight systems using integrated fuzzy consensus building (FCB) and fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) techniques. Through the analysis of 25 experts, this study identifies 16 critical transformation factors and models their causal interdependencies and structural importance. Results demonstrate that tech firm logistics control, industry structure transformation, and tech firm market entry exhibit the highest centrality values. In contrast, the traditional trucking market share declines systematically in dynamic simulations. A scenario-based sigmoid sensitivity analysis is performed to assess the robustness of the results. The findings suggest stakeholders should urgently implement strategic adjustments before market dynamics solidify around platform-dominant structures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205936","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":"Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Guiding Framework for Future Research in Supply Chain Management","authors":"Domenico Mecca,&nbsp;Andrea S. Patrucco,&nbsp;Andreas Wieland,&nbsp;Christian F. Durach,&nbsp;Robert B. Handfield,&nbsp;Ethan Nikookar","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2016, Wieland, Handfield, and Durach mapped future research themes in supply chain management (SCM). This research revisits their work to examine how the field has continued to evolve, the themes scholars believe should and will matter in the coming years, and new research intersections that offer promising opportunities for future research. We begin with a “looking back” analysis of 2413 articles published between 2014 and 2023 in the <i>Journal of Business Logistics</i>, <i>Journal of Operations Management</i>, <i>Journal of Supply Chain Management</i>, and <i>Production and Operations Management</i>. When we classified these articles against the 35 themes identified by Wieland et al., we found that the original framework captured 84.1% of the articles' thematic focus, suggesting it remained useful despite the turbulent and unforeseen events of the last decade. We then employed a three-phase design to explore future themes, i.e., “moving forward”. First, 185 SCM scholars proposed themes they considered important for the next 5 years. These responses were consolidated into 48 themes, which 186 scholars evaluated in terms of what should become important and what they expect will become important. Finally, eight scholars reflected on intersections among these themes and broader developments shaping the field. Bringing the three analyses together, we develop a guiding framework for future SCM research under overlapping global crises. It connects three areas: the human implications of AI in supply chains; environmental sustainability and social equity; and public policy, geopolitical change, and supply network reconfiguration. Human, social, and humanitarian concerns cut across the three areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205370","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":"Microfoundations of Adaptive Decision-Making Capability: How Chief Supply Chain Officers Convert Technology-Enabled Visibility Into Coordinated Action","authors":"Sreedhar Madhavaram,&nbsp;Kerry T. Manis,&nbsp;Matthew Belford,&nbsp;Robert Glenn Richey Jr.","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supply chain leaders increasingly operate with extensive technology-enabled visibility, yet many firms still struggle to convert shared signals into timely, coordinated action. We frame this tension as the visibility-to-action problem in supply chain management (SCM): executives observe more than they can process and often fail to route, prioritize, and execute quickly enough for information to translate into coordinated outcomes. We examine how Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) close this gap. Drawing on dynamic capabilities and microfoundations research, we adopt a theory-elaborating qualitative design that pairs a theories-in-use approach with the Gioia methodology, analyzing 25 CSCO interviews spanning manufacturing, retail, logistics, and technology sectors. Informants theorize that technology-enabled advantage depends less on tool acquisition than on the intentional design of interoperable data architectures, conversion routines that filter and route exceptions to accountable owners, and learning stabilizers that preserve reliable adjustment over time. We conceptualize these as the microfoundations of adaptive decision-making capability (ADMC), a higher-order managerial capability linking information, judgment, and action into self-reinforcing learning cycles. As a theorized downstream implication, participants further suggest that ADMC supports the development of adaptive supply chain capability (ASCC), reflected in agility, resilience, alignment, and learning velocity. The study extends microfoundations and dynamic capabilities research by specifying the cognitive, governance, and exception-management mechanisms through which technology-enabled visibility becomes coordinated action in data-intensive SCM settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994535","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":"Moving Beyond Pragmatism: The Authenticity of Sustainable Supply Chain Legitimacy","authors":"Vladyslava A. Snyder,&nbsp;Wendy L. Tate,&nbsp;Lisa M. Ellram","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research investigates how organizations can attain and maintain the legitimacy of their environmental sustainability leadership over time. Utilizing data from the corporate sustainability reports of a global sustainability leader, this research analyzes a company's efforts to secure moral, cognitive, and pragmatic legitimacy in the eyes of its evaluators at the macro level. Adopting a template analysis approach and building on prior research on corporate sustainability reporting, this research examines the temporal shifts in IBM's (International Business Machines Corporation) sustainability commitments, with a focus on its sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). This research advances comprehension of legitimacy theory through theory elaboration by navigating the intersection of empirical data and existing literature. It posits that the construct of authenticity serves as a pivotal link between an organization's SSCM and its attainment of sustainable supply chain legitimacy at the macro level. Furthermore, organizations seeking to attain and maintain legitimacy must continually adapt to evolving expectations from external evaluators.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943684","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":"Pulling Back the Curtain: Using Dependability, Credibility, Transferability, and Confirmability as Evaluation Criteria for Literature Reviews","authors":"Christopher W. Craighead,&nbsp;Jessica L. Darby,&nbsp;David J. Ketchen","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Literature review articles play a crucial role in advancing knowledge by making sense of a body of research and setting a foundation for subsequent inquiry. Because much of the work is unobservable, some readers may wonder about the underlying rigor of a literature review. This hidden element creates parallels between literature reviews and qualitative research. In response to concerns about rigor, qualitative researchers have developed and rely upon a set of criteria by which qualitative work can be judged. In this essay, we adapt those criteria—dependability (analogous to reliability), credibility (analogous to internal validity), transferability (analogous to external validity), and confirmability (analogous to objectivity)—and explain how the criteria can be used to assess and improve the rigor of literature review articles. We then introduce the 2026 Special Topic Forum articles and spotlight examples wherein the articles excelled along the evaluation criteria.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943688","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":"Enabling Systemic Trust in the Physical Internet: An eDSR Approach to Governance Model Design","authors":"Malte Spanuth,&nbsp;Rod Franklin,&nbsp;André Ludwig","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Physical Internet (PI) envisions a hyperconnected cyber-physical logistics system inspired by the Digital Internet, yet adoption remains limited due to persistent trust and governance challenges. This study addresses these barriers by conceptualizing systemic trust as a foundational requirement for broad participation in the PI. We apply the echeloned Design Science Research methodology to develop the Governance and Trust Orchestration Layer (GTOL), an extension of existing layered PI models that incorporates mechanisms for rule enforcement, credentialing, dispute resolution, and fair matching. Based on empirical interviews with logistics practitioners and evaluated through scenario-based walkthroughs, the GTOL addresses core commercial, institutional, and technological trust concerns. We contribute mid-range design theory through six design principles that provide transferable guidance for embedding trust in decentralized logistics networks. They serve as a practical and theoretical blueprint for enabling governance structures that are transparent, enforceable, and adaptable across diverse logistics contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943689","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":"Disaster Relief Through a Complex Adaptive System Perspective: Firms' Motivations, Activities, and the Role of Operations Adaptability in Overlapping Landscapes","authors":"Thu Trang Hoang,&nbsp;Peter M. Ralston,&nbsp;William J. Rose","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Natural disasters disrupt the normal functioning of both communities and businesses. However, past literature often segregates the disaster relief view from the business continuity perspective, leaving a gap in understanding how firms can proactively support relief efforts. Using an embedded case, we focus on the operations of a multinational enterprise in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods sector to reveal these mechanisms. Its headquarters and geographic business units represent firms within and outside the disaster's vicinity and show how they work with NGOs and government counterparts in relief efforts. We find that firms within the disaster's vicinity (i.e., local firms or firms whose markets or supplies can be disrupted by the disaster) are motivated to proactively participate in the relief effort. These firms' goals to stabilize the market and economy are well-aligned with NGOs and the government during disaster preparedness and response. Meanwhile, firms outside the disaster's vicinity mostly report philanthropic donations to support disaster relief, with underlying motivations for branding, tax benefits, and efficiency. Analyses of qualitative interviews and quantitative data under the Complex Adaptive Systems lens also reveal interesting insights into how the non-profit and for-profit landscapes overlap during disaster preparedness and response, and how firms within the disaster's vicinity can play a more central role in recovery if they have better operations adaptability capabilities (i.e., coordinated changes instead of changes in individual operations factors). Our findings contribute to both the disaster relief literature and the understanding of complex adaptive systems, especially in disaster contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943455","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":"Transparency in Supply Chain Service Design: Assessing the Impact of Country of Seller and Country of Fulfillment Information","authors":"Rowan Hilend,&nbsp;Simone T. Peinkofer,&nbsp;Yao \"Henry\" Jin","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To combat counterfeit or unsafe products in retail supply chains, regulations require large online retailers to disclose seller-specific information including the country of seller (COS) and the country of order fulfillment (COF). This supply chain transparency aims to empower consumers to make more informed purchasing decisions. Yet, the impact of disclosing such supply chain information to consumers—particularly toward the policy goal of deterring counterfeit purchases by informing consumers—is unclear. Drawing on signaling theory, we conducted a scenario-based experiment to examine how COS and COF disclosures impact consumer perceptions regarding the likelihood of receiving a counterfeit product and willingness to purchase. Our results reveal the benefits of disclosing COS or COF information in reducing consumer expectations of receiving a counterfeit product and increasing purchase intentions. Yet nuanced insights reveal that consumer perceptions of a country influence their interpretation of COS and COF information. Specifically, the presence of a country associated with low product quality as either COS or COF negates the positive effects of a high-quality country affiliation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148848770","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 Three R's of Powerful Research: Rigor, Relevance… and Resonance!","authors":"Rodney Thomas,&nbsp;Terry Esper,&nbsp;Christian Hofer,&nbsp;Mehrdokht Pournader,&nbsp;Damien Power,&nbsp;Judith Whipple,&nbsp;Scott Grawe,&nbsp;Chad W. Autry,&nbsp;Matthias Klumpp,&nbsp;Maria Keil,&nbsp;Randy V. Bradley,&nbsp;Bryan Ashenbaum","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70093","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;For decades, we have judged supply chain scholarship by two familiar criteria: rigor and relevance (e.g., Mentzer &lt;span&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;; Näslund et al. &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;). Rigor focuses on the appropriate selection and implementation of methods. It ensures that the claims made are logically consistent and defensible. Relevance asks whether the questions we tackle are significant to industry and if research insights can actually guide stakeholder decisions. These twin criteria have served the field well. They raised the quality of research and helped &lt;i&gt;Supply Chain Management&lt;/i&gt; develop into a credible scientific discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, papers that easily clear both rigor and relevance hurdles can still fail to travel beyond academic circles (e.g., Rynes et al. &lt;span&gt;2001&lt;/span&gt;). Though meaningful in advancing theory, many constructs never make it into common vocabulary, and frameworks or insights never influence the actions of those who make supply chain or policy decisions. The research, however rigorous and relevant, simply does not stick. It should be trustworthy and usable, but it fails to matter with broader audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The missing piece is resonance. While prior work has examined why some ideas attract attention or bridge practice (e.g., Davis &lt;span&gt;1971&lt;/span&gt;; Van de Ven &lt;span&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt;), resonance focuses explicitly on ideas that matter and last. It turns a good paper into one that shapes the language, thinking, and doing of managers, policymakers, educators, and scholars. More formally, resonance is the extent to which research insights (i.e., concepts, frameworks, constructs) are &lt;i&gt;repeatedly&lt;/i&gt; recognized, used, and adapted to interpret problems, guide decisions, and inform further inquiry. Resonant research not only makes an impact by “moving the needle” in meaningful and varied ways but does so in a sustained and long-term fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bullwhip effect (Lee et al. &lt;span&gt;1997&lt;/span&gt;) illustrates what makes research resonant. The authors likely did not know that their research would become a seminal paper, or that executives, students, and scholars would universally say “bullwhip” when referring to the amplification of demand volatility. Still, their success was not accidental. The authors addressed a phenomenon managers experienced on a daily basis: oscillating orders, excess inventory, and erratic capacity utilization. The research provided a diagnosis, a vocabulary, and a metaphor. It connected micro-level decisions to system-level consequences and identified controllable levers such as information sharing, lead time reduction, and collaborative forecasting. And, as the ultimate representation of resonance, the foundational work of Lee et al. (&lt;span&gt;1997&lt;/span&gt;) &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; inspires and informs high-quality academic research to this day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Editors of Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), our goal is to draw attention to the qualities that make research experientially recognizable, practically usable,","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784054","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":"Do Voluntary and Mandatory Clean Truck Programs Improve Air Quality Around Ports?","authors":"Chinedu Ufodike,&nbsp;Alex Scott,&nbsp;Yemisi Bolumole","doi":"10.1111/jbl.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>States and port authorities have implemented “Clean Truck” programs (CTPs) to encourage trucking companies to transition to newer, cleaner trucks to reduce the emissions around ports. We examine the comparative effectiveness of mandatory and voluntary CTPs implemented across major United States ports. Leveraging insights from the awareness-motivation-capability framework, we theorize how environmental regulatory programs shape carrier behavior under different regulatory structures in the trucking industry. Using a difference-in-differences design and a database containing detailed truck and trailer information and air quality measures, we find that mandatory programs significantly accelerate truck model-year upgrades, narrowing pre-existing disparities in fleet upgrades across carriers, whereas voluntary programs show no measurable effects. Mandatory CTPs are associated with reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations, while effects on particulate matter are less consistent. Air quality improvements are most pronounced in inner harbors and decrease with distance from port activity. Our findings contribute to supply chain and regulatory policy literature by highlighting the effectiveness of mandatory environmental programs in driving industry-wide change and the limited impact of voluntary initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":48090,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Logistics","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbl.70091","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784055","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}