{"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":"Differentiated Relational Strategies in Major Supplier Networks: A Blessing or a Curse in Collectivist Cultures?","authors":"Zebin Yan, Zhi Yang, Haibin Yang, En Xie","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12339","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Extant literature highlights the positive performance outcomes of a differentiated supplier management strategy. However, this research presents counterintuitive findings in major supplier networks in a collectivist culture like China. In such contexts, differentiated supplier management strategies may violate the equality principle expected by major suppliers, hindering their collective value creation process and ultimately undermining the buyers' financial performance. Using a combination of survey data, secondary archival data from Chinese manufacturing firms and their major supplier networks, and qualitative triangulation, this research reveals that a buyer's differentiated relational strategy (DRS) in major supplier networks negatively affects its financial performance. The negative effects of a DRS intensify under demand uncertainty but lessen under technological uncertainty. This research reveals a contextualized perspective on differentiated supplier management strategies and enriches the literature on the effects of collectivist cultures in supply chain management.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 3","pages":"16-35"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647435","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":"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}
Xianwei Shi, William David Cordova Jimenez, Yongjiang Shi, Yufeng Zhang, Zheng Liu
{"title":"Harnessing the Power of Quasi–Supply Chains: Toward an Ecosystem Perspective for Transformative Supply Chain Management","authors":"Xianwei Shi, William David Cordova Jimenez, Yongjiang Shi, Yufeng Zhang, Zheng Liu","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12335","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although emerging transformative supply chain management research offers novel insights into tackling extreme conditions beyond the traditional static and engineering view of supply chain management literature, relatively less is known about the underlying mechanisms of such a supply chain transformation process. Through a qualitative study undertaken on Penlon's ESO2 Emergency Ventilator Project in the UK—a project to create a new ventilator supply chain to respond swiftly to the urgent demand that occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic—the analysis offers a process model of transformative supply chain management by leveraging the <i>quasi–supply chain</i> that features collaborations with an ecosystem of diverse partners beyond the existing suppliers in the medical device sector. This article enriches the backbones of the emerging transformative supply chain management research and offers new insights into supply chain management for extreme conditions with an ecosystem perspective. The findings also offer managerial and policy implications for cultivating the reciprocities between supply chains and the wider ecosystem to be better prepared for future disruptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"61 1","pages":"14-33"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143121486","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":"Process Research Methods for Studying Supply Chains and Their Management","authors":"Julia Grimm, Ann Langley, Juliane Reinecke","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12331","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Processes are fundamental to supply chains and their management. Yet, traditional research approaches to supply chain management (SCM) reflect only a limited understanding of process, offering accounts that overlook the constitutive role of dynamically interrelated processes and how their interplay over time shapes the trajectories of supply chains. This article argues that a process-philosophical perspective is better suited as a starting point for identifying, analyzing, and interpreting the fluid and interwoven processes of supply chains and their co-evolving environments. Drawing on examples from SCM research, the article offers insights into the nature of process-thinking and process-theoretical assumptions, including the analytical choices and challenges entailed in process research. Besides providing methodological guidance, the article highlights how process research methods equip SCM scholars with a powerful lens for studying transformational issues in this field, including sustainability, resilience, and the use of digitalization and technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"60 4","pages":"3-26"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451194","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}
Davide Luzzini, Mark Pagell, Veronica Devenin, Joe Miemczyk, Annachiara Longoni, Bobby Banerjee
{"title":"Rethinking Supply Chain Management in a Post-Growth Era","authors":"Davide Luzzini, Mark Pagell, Veronica Devenin, Joe Miemczyk, Annachiara Longoni, Bobby Banerjee","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12332","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supply chain management is grounded on the assumption that endless economic growth is compatible with environmental and social sustainability. Yet scholars from ecological economics question this assumption due to ever increasing evidence showing how hard it is to decouple growth from negative environmental and social externalities. In response, pressure from social movements is mounting, and the agendas of several countries already consider alternatives to growth. Therefore, this article presents a critical thought experiment for the supply chain management discipline: What are the implications of moving from the current endless growth paradigm to a post-growth paradigm for businesses and their supply chains? Using the umbrella term “post-growth,” this article identifies three key post-growth principles—(i) <i>socio-ecological wellbeing</i>, (ii) <i>selective downscaling</i>, and (iii) <i>systems thinking</i>—and then examines their implications for supply chain management research and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"60 4","pages":"92-106"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449153","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}
Hugo de Tarragon, Christina Theodoraki, Martine Hlady-Rispal, Gauthier Casteran
{"title":"Unraveling the Urban Ecosystem: An Ethnographic Study of Logistics Service Providers","authors":"Hugo de Tarragon, Christina Theodoraki, Martine Hlady-Rispal, Gauthier Casteran","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12333","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although there is a growing interest in developing sustainable cities, a significant knowledge gap persists regarding the concrete logistics choices necessary to achieve such cities. Grounded in ethnographic research on city logistics, this study examines how logistics service providers (LSPs) navigate sustainability challenges within the urban ecosystem while also meeting the efficiency demands of their business ecosystem. By repositioning LSPs as a sub-ecosystem nested within the broader urban ecosystem, the article demonstrates how LSPs adeptly address the intricacies of the urban environment and respond to pressures from their business ecosystem. This investigation greatly enhances the understanding of the underlying issues affecting city logistics' sustainability. It deepens insight into the concept of city logistics as a sub-ecosystem within the urban ecosystem, highlighting how its sustainability is intertwined with the structure of the urban ecosystem. From a societal perspective, this research conceptualizes city logistics as a business activity and a vital social service that bolsters urban well-being. The findings suggest a need for further research into the role of city logistics actors as key contributors to urban sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"60 4","pages":"75-91"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449151","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}