{"title":"Researching Like a Master Chef: An Expansion of the Quantitative “Kitchen Tools” in Supply Chain Management Research","authors":"Tingting Yan, Andreas Wieland, Wendy Tate","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>World-renowned chefs achieve culinary excellence by mastering diverse cooking techniques and specialized tools. Similarly, supply chain management (SCM) faces complex and dynamic research phenomena that defy simple methods. This editorial argues that SCM researchers need to expand their methodological toolkit of quantitative data collection and analysis approaches. Although traditional quantitative data collection and analysis methods have advanced SCM theory, they impose limitations on capturing real-world complexities. Issues like retrospective bias, the cross-sectional nature of data, the inability to replicate managerial dynamics, and constraints in network-level analysis hinder theoretical development. Moreover, dominant data analysis techniques struggle to accommodate temporal dynamics, multilevel interactions, and causal inferences. To overcome these constraints, this editorial advocates the need for promising but underutilized research methods: field experiments, neuroscience methods, agent-based modeling, SIENA, dynamic SEM, multilevel models, QCA, and AI-based methods. By expanding the methodological “kitchen tools,” researchers can generate more powerful, convincing, and comprehensive theories about supply chain decision-making and performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 2","pages":"3-12"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861561","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":"Theorizing Meta-Organizations' Role in Addressing Societal Problems: Hybridizing Institutional Logics to Tackle Modern Slavery","authors":"Michael Rogerson, Johanne Grosvold, Andrew Crane","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Modern slavery is increasingly recognized as a supply chain risk to both workers and firms. Neither corporate efforts nor market-based regulation has adequately addressed the issue. This is largely because they fail to reconcile the conflicting priorities between efficiency and anti-slavery goals inherent in such efforts. Public sector purchasing—often conducted through meta-organizations—offers both the scale and scope needed to change supply chain behaviors. Yet meta-organizations and how they effect change remain underexplored and under-theorized. Through analysis of archival material and 44 interviews with public sector buyers and purchasing consortia managers, we construct two case studies of meta-organizations. These cases reveal rich insights into meta-organizations' capacity both to improve public sector knowledge and compliance around modern slavery and to compel suppliers to enhance their anti-slavery efforts. The findings show that, by adapting purchasing structures and developing expertise, and thereby hybridizing the logics of efficiency and anti-slavery, purchasing consortia can embed accountability within and beyond the bounds of their memberships. The study contributes to theories of meta-organizations and institutional logics in the context of supply chain management and to policy and practice on modern slavery in supply chains.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 2","pages":"53-73"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861842","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 Punctuated Equilibrium Model of Supply Chain Recovery and Resilience: After a Complete Shutdown","authors":"Xueyuan Liu, Lingli Luo, Li Chen, Thomas Choi","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12344","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article investigates supply chain recovery and resilience by examining how an automotive supply chain in Wuhan was revived after a complete shutdown. The focus is on the recovery process once the supply chain was reactivated. Using punctuated equilibrium theory (PET), the authors illustrate how such a complete shutdown triggers the reconfiguration of deep structures (i.e., durable organizational aspects, such as routines) and accelerates supply chain recovery. Analyzing data from a three-tier supply chain, the article shows how deep structure changes can produce spillover effects in attaining the “new normal” equilibrium. The findings highlight five critical deep structure elements—workforce resilience, middle-management empowerment, process digitalization, supply chain rapport, and public partnership—that underpin recovery and resilience. These elements are grouped into two themes: internal capabilities and external relationships. The reconfiguration of these elements facilitates the supply chain's rapid recovery, with newly acquired internal capabilities more likely to be sustained than external relationships in the new equilibrium. The findings further indicate that both the supply chain role and the severity of the disruption shape the extent of deep structure reconfiguration and the pace of recovery. Overall, this article extends PET to the supply chain context, offering a novel perspective on rapid supply chain recovery and resilience.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 2","pages":"106-123"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Surprisingly Robust Effects of Narratives in Supplier Negotiations","authors":"Leopold Ried, Lutz Kaufmann, Moritz Schreiner","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12343","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Narratives—or stories—are commonly viewed as powerful means to convince others, although it remains unclear how the narrator's use of deception in supplier negotiations influences their effectiveness. Grounded in narrative transportation theory, the authors investigated these dynamics using a vignette-based experiment with 332 business-to-business (B2B) sales professionals (Study 1), followed by post hoc interviews with 33 B2B sales professionals (Study 2), and a second vignette-based experiment with 290 B2B sales professionals (Study 3). The findings suggest that reliability-focused buyer narratives are associated with suppliers' integrity- and ability-based trust in buyers as well as suppliers' willingness to make concessions. Unexpectedly, these positive effects remain robust even when the buyer used deception beforehand—a result that differs from what schema theory would predict. Interviewees indicated that deception and narration are often viewed as independent tactics and that narration has the power to overshadow earlier communication. In addition, several participants described deception as part of the normal “negotiation game,” which might explain its limited impact on subsequent narratives. The findings suggest that receivers should remain vigilant and confirm the factual grounding of any narrative they encounter.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 2","pages":"33-52"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12343","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861379","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}
Kirstin Scholten, Dirk Pieter van Donk, Stefania Boscari
{"title":"What Options Do We Have? The Supply Chain Resilience Funnel","authors":"Kirstin Scholten, Dirk Pieter van Donk, Stefania Boscari","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12342","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supply chain resilience (SCRes) enables an organization to deal with disruptive changes over time. Previous research has often examined SCRes as a standalone concept, overlooking its multidimensional and complex roots that enable organizations to deal with change. This research integrates SCRes with connectedness and potential. Together, these three dimensions determine the development of organizations in the adaptive cycle, conceptualized in panarchy theory. The research framework developed in this research combines well-known SCRes strategies with the idea of concurrent product, process, and supply chain (PPS) configuration. Analyzing in-depth, empirical data pertaining to 12 disruption processes experienced by seven organizations, this research develops the “supply chain resilience funnel.” The funnel depicts how organizations prepare SCRes practices across PPS configurations limited by their specific contextual characteristics (laws and regulations, market developments, business models, and choices). During the response stage, disruption characteristics (scope and scale) further reduce the available options. The SCRes funnel clarifies how an organization's PPS configuration shapes resilience, connectedness, and potential, as well as how these dimensions interrelate to deal with disruptive change over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 2","pages":"74-105"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861754","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":"Justice and Contracts as Double-Edged Swords: Collaborative Product Innovation in Hub-and-Spoke Supply Chain Networks","authors":"Gordon Liu, Yantai Chen, Wai Wai Ko","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12340","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores how inter-organizational justice, and formal contracts influence new product development (NPD) collaboration in supply chain networks. Challenging traditional transaction cost economics (TCE), the research focuses on collaborative NPD in hub-and-spoke supply chain structures. Data from 183 Chinese suppliers and 22 executive interviews reveal unexpected patterns in NPD collaboration. Procedural justice exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with NPD collaboration, linking higher fairness to improved collaboration up to a point, beyond which further increases may associate with diminishing returns. In contrast, distributive justice shows a U-shaped relationship with NPD collaboration, where higher equity initially relates to reduced collaboration but later correlates with renewed engagement. Notably, formal contracts amplify the negative interactions between these justice dimensions. This contradicts the conventional view of their complementary roles. These findings contribute to theoretical advancements by illustrating how inter-organizational justice mechanisms function differently in complex network structures compared to simple dyadic relationships. Careful calibration of inter-organizational justice dimensions and formal contracts proves essential for fostering productive NPD collaboration. These governance insights offer directions for enhancing supply chain relationship management.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 2","pages":"13-32"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861427","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":"Taking Academic Ownership of the Supply Chain Emissions Discourse","authors":"Andreas Wieland, Felix Creutzig","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12338","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The climate crisis requires a focus on supply chain emissions—both upstream and downstream. Although supply chain emissions typically account for the majority of a company's greenhouse gas emissions, the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) has yet to fully engage in this discourse, leaving substantial research opportunities untapped. This editorial calls upon SCM scholars to take responsibility and actively engage in the study of supply chain emissions by proposing a comprehensive research agenda. The authors explore emerging corporate interventions aimed at reducing supply chain emissions. They develop a framework categorizing these interventions as either collaborative or authoritative, targeting behavioral or operational changes. Based on this framework, research opportunities within SCM are then discussed, following four different styles of theorizing—propositional, processual, perspectival and provocative—to promote theoretical advancements. By embracing this research agenda, the SCM discipline can play a critical role in the supply chain emissions discourse and have a strong societal impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 1","pages":"3-13"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12338","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113462","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":"Diversify or Concentrate? Supply Chain Responses to Policy Uncertainty","authors":"Jafar Namdar, Sachin Modi, Jennifer Blackhurst","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12336","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how firms adjust their sourcing decisions due to variations in policy uncertainty. Some studies recommend diversification to manage uncertainty, whereas others argue it complicates supply chains and favors onshoring instead. The theoretical ambiguity surrounding appropriate responses to domestic and upstream policy uncertainty necessitates empirical investigation. Therefore, the study assesses how domestic and upstream policy uncertainty influences a focal firm's decisions to restructure its supply chain along two dimensions: (a) onshoring/offshoring and (b) geographical diversification/concentration. The study's empirical evidence suggests that managers decrease the ratio of onshore suppliers and diversify their supply base geographically in response to heightened upstream policy uncertainty affecting suppliers. Although domestic policy uncertainty does not significantly affect firms' decisions to adjust their supply base structure, a post hoc analysis reveals that firms are likely to bring suppliers onshore when domestic policy uncertainty is very low. The study also documents that firms are more sensitive to upstream policy uncertainty than to domestic policy uncertainty. Upstream policy uncertainty, rather than domestic uncertainty, is the primary driver of adjustments to supply chain structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 1","pages":"62-82"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12336","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110293","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":"Putting the S in Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A People-Centric Research Agenda","authors":"Mark Pagell, Miriam Wilhelm","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12337","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this disciplined provocation is to challenge some of the fundamental assumptions in supply chain management research and practice—most notably the discipline’s current conceptualization of supply chain excellence that has proven to be destructive for social-ecological systems. It is argued that to drive the transition to sustainable supply chains, it requires emphasizing the social component of sustainable supply chain management and considering how to conduct supply chain management research that includes people and communities from the beginning. Based on this vision of foregrounding people in supply chain management research, a people-centric research agenda that outlines the changes that are needed in how research is conducted and the topics that should be studied is introduced. The authors outline the active role that supply chain management scholars can play in developing new models of supply chain excellence that are, at a minimum, sustainable and hopefully regenerative.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 1","pages":"83-95"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12337","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110294","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":"Supplier Carbon Management and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk: Empirical Evidence From China","authors":"Zhifang Zhou, Yixiang Dai, Shangjie Han, Tao Zhang, Jinhao Liu, Xiaohong Chen","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although existing research emphasizes the importance of internal carbon management (CM) in influencing firm risk, the impact of external stakeholder CM on firm risk remains unclear. This study employs signaling theory to explore how supplier CM affects firm idiosyncratic risk (IR), alongside the moderating roles of the supply chain information environment and the criticality of firm–supplier relationships. The findings of this study demonstrate that supplier CM can reduce firm IR. The risk reduction effect is strong when the information environment between a firm and its suppliers is rich and when the dependency between the firm and its supplier is strong. Path analysis reveals that supplier CM primarily reduces firm IR by alleviating information asymmetry. Moreover, the risk reduction effect increases for firms with small sizes. This research extends the application of signaling theory to supply chain research and bridges the gap between the CM and firm IR literature within the context of supply chain management.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 1","pages":"34-61"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114282","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}