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{"title":"When does it pay to be green? The strategic benefits of adoption speed","authors":"Hung-Chung Su,&nbsp;Wayne Fu,&nbsp;Kevin Linderman","doi":"10.1002/joom.1337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1337","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Does the speed of adopting environmental practices impact financial benefits? The strategy literature discusses the contingencies under which firms can gain an early-mover advantage or a late-mover advantage. This research examines the effect of adoption speed on two types of environmental practices: environmental innovation practices (EIP) and environmental management practices (EMP). The results show that early adoption of EIP increases competitive advantage when firms face intense competition. In comparison, we show that early adoption of EMP increases competitive advantage when firms face extremely low competition or have moderate to high levels of slack resources. The study contributes to the literature by revealing the nuances, contingencies, and boundary conditions of when it pays to be green. Prior research shows mixed results when studying firms' decisions to implement environmental practices, which implies that it may not pay to be green. This study shows that firms can get an early mover advantage from environmental practices, but it depends on the type of environmental practices, the firm's internal slack resources, and the firm's external competitive environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 7","pages":"1155-1177"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1337","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642481","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 Base attributes and diversion risk in a supply chain for hazardous pharmaceutical products","authors":"Paul F. Skilton,&nbsp;Alan Mackelprang,&nbsp;Ramin Sepehrirad,&nbsp;Ednilson Bernardes","doi":"10.1002/joom.1335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1335","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We develop a novel construct, diversion risk, defined as the potential for post-retail diversion that results from increased sales of hazardous goods. We examine diversion risk in the context of prescription opioid sales in the United States. We ask how supply base attributes and nonprofit ownership influence the creation of opioid diversion risk. We use performance-outcome expectancy theory to hypothesize that pharmacies organize supply bases to help them avoid negative evaluations and that nonprofit ownership alters expectancy concerning legal but questionable behavior. We develop and test multilevel hypotheses explaining how supply base complexity, chain size, and nonprofit ownership influence diversion risk. Our analysis of DEA data from 2006 to 2019 finds that after accounting for other attributes, supply base complexity is positively related to diversion risk, within and between firms. Retail chain size is negatively related to diversion risk in the within-firm model, but positively in the between firm model. Testing our nonprofit hypothesis reveals that nonprofit pharmacies also use size and supply base complexity to manage diversion risk. This research sheds light on the dynamics of diversion risk in pharmaceutical supply chains. It has practical implications for the industry, potentially informing future policy and practice addressing this critical issue.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"71 3","pages":"373-392"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818489","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":"Registered reports review for field experiments","authors":"Huseyn Abdulla,&nbsp;Rafael Escamilla,&nbsp;Rogelio Oliva","doi":"10.1002/joom.1336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1336","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In this editorial, we build upon the increased attention of the operations management (OM) community toward field experiments and the recent publication of the Pre-Approved Research Designs Special Issue that provided an initial test of Registered Reports as a novel review process for field experiments in OM. Addressing lingering concerns voiced by the editorial team and learning from the experiences of journals from other disciplines that implemented Registered Reports, we introduce a new initiative and outline a new review process in the &lt;i&gt;Journal of Operations Management&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;JOM&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;&lt;/math&gt;) to motivate theory-focused field experiments in OM.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Empirical research in OM strives to uphold two key virtues: providing managerially relevant insights and making meaningful theoretical contributions. Field experiments&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;—testing treatments in controlled digital and physical field settings—tend to possess the managerial relevance virtue because of their strong engagement with key stakeholders and the practical problems that they face. By contrast, the theoretical contributions of a field experiment depend on the extent to which its insights enrich our causal understanding of real-world phenomena. Critically, the degree to which scientific research based on field experiments in OM can be distinguished from consulting engagements and industrial experiments depends on the extent of its contributions to theory. Indeed, there are many different ways of contributing and forms of contribution to OM theory; however, they all serve a common purpose: to build a &lt;i&gt;causal&lt;/i&gt; understanding of relevant OM phenomena. Field experiments can most decisively establish this causal understanding in the complexity of real-world operations (Ibanez &amp; Staats, &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). Thus, OM research that tests &lt;i&gt;theoretically&lt;/i&gt; motivated treatments in field settings and provides sufficiently deep causal explanations for the observed effects, while also opening a door for future inquiry, possesses both virtues of empirical research. Consequently, we believe that the field of OM can benefit significantly from such research.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that empirical research employing field experiments as the main methodological approach is on the rise in OM, it has traditionally lagged other disciplines such as economics, marketing, and information systems (Gao et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). For example, Simester (&lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) reports that 37 field experiments were published in the top five marketing journals between 2010 and 2014, a period in which OM published a total of five field experiments in its top five journals (Gao et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Between 2005 and 2021, only 31 research articles with field experiments were published in three top-tier OM journals: &lt;i&gt;JOM&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;MSOM&lt;/i&gt;), and &lt;i&gt;Production and","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 7","pages":"1042-1047"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1336","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642046","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":"Helping hampered bidders—Do subsidy auctions work as intended?","authors":"Sanghoon Cho,&nbsp;Joel O. Wooten,&nbsp;Timothy D. Fry","doi":"10.1002/joom.1333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1333","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The use of preference or discriminatory auctions, where one class of bidders is offered favored treatment over another class, has received mixed attention in the literature. Research has shown there is often an economic benefit of such policies in procurement auctions thanks to lower costs for buyers as incentives are offered to disadvantaged sellers. In this paper, we study one type of preferential procurement auction: the subsidy. Using a set of controlled experiments, we compare actual bidder behavior to what is predicted in equilibrium and find consistent (but overly aggressive) patterns overall. By testing a common bid strategy assumption, we also identify a behavioral framing bias that may trap sellers in these suboptimal strategies. Finally, we compare subsidies to another common discriminatory mechanism—the price preference—and find evidence that buyers interested in increasing the welfare of disadvantaged sellers should use subsidies instead of price preference auctions, thanks to a surprising difference in outcomes between preference types. Due to the wide use of bid preference auctions to support both policy and social aims, our findings have both financial and societal implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 7","pages":"1126-1154"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142641941","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":"Evaluating quality reward and other interventions to mitigate US drug shortages","authors":"Sergey Naumov,&nbsp;In Joon Noh,&nbsp;Hui Zhao","doi":"10.1002/joom.1334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drug shortages have been persistent in the United States for over a decade, posing serious threats to public health and the healthcare system. While previous research has investigated the causes and effects of drug shortages, there is a dearth of research exploring potential solutions to mitigate this problem. Using a system dynamics model of the US generic drug market, we evaluate the long-term effectiveness of two existing policy interventions (expediting drug approvals and nudging manufacturers to ramp up their production) and the “quality reward” initiative that is being actively explored by the FDA and industry. Our results indicate that while the existing interventions can be helpful in addressing shortages, their long-term effect seems limited. In contrast, quality reward can mitigate drug shortages in a sustainable way. However, a caveat of quality reward is the potential emergence of a monopolistic supply market with negative consequences. We suggest that a carefully designed quality disclosure mechanism can address this issue. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to quantitatively and comparatively evaluate the long-term effectiveness of quality reward and other interventions on drug shortages and provide structural explanations for their performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"71 3","pages":"335-372"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818667","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":"Mitigating upstream disruptions: Effects of extended inventories in first- and second-tier suppliers","authors":"Christian F. Durach,&nbsp;Yuri Peers,&nbsp;Yimin Wang,&nbsp;Tomas Repasky","doi":"10.1002/joom.1332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1332","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how inventory slack at first- and second-tier suppliers influences buyer performance following an upstream disruption event. We analyze secondary data from buyer, first-tier, and second-tier triads impacted at their upper end by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. By matching buyers in affected triads with similar, largely unaffected firms, we assess post-event performance in relation to triad inventory slack. Results show: (a) inventory slack at the first and second tiers supports buyer performance after the disruption; (b) first-tier inventory slack has a greater impact; (c) buyers with less inventory slack can extract more value from their chains' inventories compared to those with more slack; and (d) first-tier suppliers occupy a pivotal role in bridging the second-tier inventories to the buyer. When competition for the first-tier intensifies, the benefits of having first- and second-tier inventory slack diminish for the buyer. A central contribution of this study is to highlight the importance of resources controlled by chain members with indirect links to the buyer and the bridging role of first-tier suppliers. These insights suggest that for effective risk management, both direct and indirect supply chain resources and their interactions need consideration. Practically, these findings should guide supplier selection, risk management, and investments in supply chain visibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 8","pages":"1261-1285"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869088","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":"Riding the waves of uncertainty: Towards strategic agility in medicine supply systems","authors":"Nonhlanhla Dube,&nbsp;Kostas Selviaridis,&nbsp;Kim E. van Oorschot,&nbsp;Marianne Jahre","doi":"10.1002/joom.1330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1330","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate how organizations embedded in a supply system collectively respond to risks and seize opportunities arising from crisis events under shifting forms of uncertainty. Using the United Kingdom (UK) medicine supply system as the research context, we explore how decision-makers navigated the effects of an event with knowable implications (UK's European Union exit, 2016–2020) followed by an event with unknowable implications (COVID-19 global pandemic, 2020–2021). We adopt a longitudinal case research design that incorporates causal loop diagramming, to understand the system's responses. We find that learning evolves as crisis events unfold, changing from surface (know-what) to deep (know-why and -how) and at the highest level, it is transcendent. Transcendent learning entails understanding system effects into the future (i.e., beyond the past and present) and in relation to other supply systems (i.e., beyond the UK system). Capabilities to absorb, avoid, and accelerate away from shocks are developed sequentially as learning changes. We contribute to prior research by developing a theory of system-level strategic agility and the adaptation processes that underpin it. The latter hinge on dynamic resource (re)allocation and the continuous (re)configuration of processes, protocols, regulations, and structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 8","pages":"1234-1260"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869025","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":"Steering through the storm: Environmental uncertainty and delivery performance","authors":"Joshua Ignatius,&nbsp;Rui Li,&nbsp;Yunqiang Yin,&nbsp;Kunze Jia","doi":"10.1002/joom.1331","DOIUrl":"10.1002/joom.1331","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate the impact of Typhoon Lekima, a source of environmental uncertainty, on delivery performance, utilizing data from RiRiShun Logistics. We apply a staggered difference-in-differences model across low-complexity and high-complexity supply chains. The analysis uncovers distinct dynamics throughout the typhoon's forecast, active, and recovery phases. Notably, the active phase experiences less disruption in delivery performance compared to the forecast phase, owing to RiRiShun's wait-and-see policy. This approach leads to order accumulation but subsequently enables more effective resource allocation. In the recovery phase, high-complexity supply chains demonstrate significant improvements, surpassing pre-disaster performance levels. The study further emphasizes the critical role of two response mechanisms in managing high-complexity supply chains. Increasing throughput efficiencies at destination centers and implementing transfer centers prove effective in enhancing delivery performance during both the forecast and active phases. However, the simultaneous application of these response mechanisms during the forecast phase unexpectedly reduces performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 8","pages":"1286-1309"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142253054","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":"Uncertainty in healthcare operations: How hospitals weather the perfect storm","authors":"Sriram Thirumalai,&nbsp;Sarv Devaraj,&nbsp;Tyson R. Browning","doi":"10.1002/joom.1327","DOIUrl":"10.1002/joom.1327","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We focus on two of the many sources of uncertainty in healthcare operations, <i>mix uncertainty</i> – the variation in the complexity of care required by the patient mix, and <i>volume uncertainty</i> – the variation in the volume of care demanded by the patient population. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, we study the impact of <i>mix and volume uncertainties</i> on two important healthcare outcomes, <i>length of stay</i> and <i>number of procedures</i>, along with the mitigation impacts of the operational concepts of <i>related focus</i> and <i>utilization</i> levels. Based on large dataset of 830,853 patient discharges in 26 clinical departments across 731 hospitals in five U.S. Midwest states, our results indicate that <i>mix and volume uncertainties</i> each have a significant impact on patient care. We also find that related focus and department utilization levels have a mitigating effect on uncertainty in healthcare settings. Lastly, we find considerable heterogeneity in the effects of uncertainty across hospital types and departments. We discuss key research and managerial implications of our findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 8","pages":"1194-1212"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1327","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193438","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":"Collaborative dynamics in open source software development: Unveiling the influence of team interaction and the role of project manager","authors":"Sukrit Pal,&nbsp;Anand Nair,&nbsp;Zhiya Zuo","doi":"10.1002/joom.1324","DOIUrl":"10.1002/joom.1324","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the world becomes increasingly reliant on open-source software (OSS) development platforms, collaborative communication networks are becoming more complex, resulting in non-trivial effects on project performance. This study examines the impact of communication network characteristics on project performance, measured in terms of the number of issues closed within OSS projects. Additionally, this research examines how this project outcome is affected by project managers' active participation in these communication networks. Using a panel dataset of 1599 projects spanning 104 weeks, with a total of 120,243 observations, we find that the density of communication network has an inverted U-shaped relationship with project performance, that is, as the density of the communication network formed by team member interactions increases, project performance initially increases but then starts to decrease. Meanwhile, a project manager's participation in the communication network has no direct positive impact on project performance, but it flattens the inverted U-shaped relationship, that is, it reduces the rate of decrease in project performance after the density of the communication network formed by project team members crosses the inflection point. These results provide valuable insights into the dynamics of communication networks in OSS projects and can help develop strategies for improving project performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51097,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Operations Management","volume":"70 7","pages":"1076-1099"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joom.1324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193439","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}