{"title":"Normal misconduct in the prescription opioid supply chain","authors":"Paul F. Skilton, Ednilson Bernardes","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12286","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How and when do relationships between supply chain stages normalize misconduct? This question is especially relevant to oversupply, a form of normal misconduct peculiar to supply chains. Oversupply occurs when apparently ordinary production and distribution processes deliver products in excess of the safe needs of a market. Although past research sheds light on firm-level processes of organizational misconduct, it has neglected the question of between-stage influences on systemic phenomena like oversupply. We explore this question by analyzing the oversupply of prescription drugs that fueled the American opioid epidemic during the early decades of the 21st century. Manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, and physicians have settled billions of dollars in claims related to opioid oversupply. These settlements overshadow the fact that many supply chain members made the strategic choice to not participate in oversupply. Focusing on the pharmacy stage of the supply chain, this study finds that participation in opioid oversupply is positively influenced by pressure from supplier pools and by the example of nearby competitors as well as by market characteristics. We test our model using a unique dataset that combines geographic, market, and public health data with prescription opioid transaction data from the United States Drug Enforcement Agency. The study breaks new ground by developing the oversupply construct to explain how pressures within supply chains shape misconduct. The oversupply concept is widely generalizable with the potential to inform a next generation of responsible supply chain research that addresses wicked problems like toxic production and consumption.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 4","pages":"6-29"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6159862","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}
Seongtae Kim, Sangho Chae, Stephan M. Wagner, Jason W. Miller
{"title":"Buyer abusive behavior and supplier welfare: An empirical study of truck owner–operators","authors":"Seongtae Kim, Sangho Chae, Stephan M. Wagner, Jason W. Miller","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12285","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The increase in stakeholder pressure for responsible business draws closer public scrutiny when buyers use their power advantage illegitimately to exploit weaker suppliers. In this study, we develop the novel concept of <i>buyer abusive behavior</i> (BAB) and examine BABs exerted by buyers of trucking services against truck owner–operators as their suppliers. This focus is timely given the recent emergence of online platform businesses where precarious work and associated worker abuse are prevalent. Building on the theory of power imbalance and risk-taking behavior, we elaborate on how BAB can jeopardize supplier welfare that comprises performance and safety. The analysis of the data pertaining to 260 owner–operators in South Korea shows that contract-unrelated BAB (e.g., buyer's request for money and valuables) harms supplier performance and supplier safety while contract-related BAB (e.g., buyer's unfair subcontract price decision) does not. Furthermore, the positive relationship between supplier performance and supplier safety is attenuated by contract-related BAB but reinforced by contract-unrelated BAB. We contribute to the growing body of the literature on decent work by exposing BAB as a major detriment to supplier worker welfare and laying the groundwork for the development of theories on power abuse and working conditions in multi-tiered subcontracting work environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 4","pages":"90-111"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6065702","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}
David E. Cantor, Tingting Yan, Mark Pagell, Wendy L. Tate
{"title":"From the editors: Introduction to the emerging discourse incubator on the topic of leveraging multiple types of resources within the supply network for competitive advantage","authors":"David E. Cantor, Tingting Yan, Mark Pagell, Wendy L. Tate","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12282","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <i>Journal of Supply Chain Management</i>'s 2022 emerging discourse incubator looks to encourage scholars from different disciplines to develop and test new theories to advance our understanding about why and how firms should manage supply network resources for deploying competitive actions and gaining competitive advantage. To start that discourse, this issue offers three invited papers. In “Broadening our understanding of interfirm rivalry: A call for research on how supply networks shape competitive behavior and performance,” Christian Hofer, Jordan Barker, Laura d'Oria, and Jon Johnson discuss the criticality of the supply network to a focal firm's capability in engaging competitive behaviors and the effectiveness of their rivalrous activities, which together affect the firm's competitive advantage. Michael Howe and Yao Jin explore the relational multiplexity theoretical framework in “It's Nothing Personal, or is it? Exploring How Relational Multiplexity in the Supply Chain Can Enhance Competitive Behavior.” In “A theoretical model on how firms can leverage their supply chain strategy through political actions,” Abhay Grover and Martin Dresner use the structure-conduct-performance and competitive dynamics perspectives to theorize about the relationship between political strategies, supply chain risk management strategy, and firm competitive advantage. These invited papers provide a solid foundation to further a discourse that explains how and why changes in supply chain networks can enable firms to rapidly introduce competitive actions such as new product innovations to remain competitive in their respective industries.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 2","pages":"3-7"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12282","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5733705","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 theoretical model on how firms can leverage political resources to align with supply chain strategy for competitive advantage","authors":"Abhay K. Grover, Martin Dresner","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12284","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The success of a firm's supply chain strategy depends on resources in the political environment and the supply network in which it operates. If the political environment is not conducive to a firm's supply chain strategy, a firm can either change its supply chain strategy or seek a political environment that is more favorable to its supply chain. This paper examines this second alternative. The structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm and the competitive dynamics literature are used to explore the relationships between political actions that leverage supply network resources, supply chain strategies, and firm performance. We extend a well-known typology of political actions from the strategic management literature and suggest that beyond influencing or complying with the political environment, firms may choose to moderate the political environment (circumvent or submit) or stay neutral (free ride). An integrated model is developed to explore the relationships between political actions and supply chain strategy, along with a series of propositions outlining how political actions can facilitate supply chain risk management strategies. Finally, suggestions are provided for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 2","pages":"48-65"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12284","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5793191","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":"It's nothing personal, or is it? Exploring the competitive implications of relational multiplexity in supply chains","authors":"Michael Howe, Yao Jin","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12283","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supply chain relationships—both within and between firms—can have significant implications on the firm's ability to successfully compete. Thus, it is increasingly important for supply chain managers to skillfully navigate multiplex relationships to coordinate and manage resources across functions and firms in today's competitive environment. In this work, we describe, in a supply chain context, how the prevalence of multiplex relationships, which exist when multiple, potentially incongruous relationships are present between firms and among individuals within these firms, is an important basis for individual behaviors that influence firm competitiveness. Drawing on recent advances in the relational multiplexity theoretical perspective, we identify and discuss several research opportunities for enriching our understanding of interpersonal level antecedents of firm competitiveness. Specifically, we present research opportunities related to supply chain behavioral implications of individual differences and socio-structural adaptation, informal relationship capitalization and creation, temporal orientation and transience, contemporary multiteam structures, and cross-level relational valence (a)symmetries. Throughout, we emphasize the importance of the informal, interpersonal relationships that overlay formally specified roles and develop representative research questions to spur further exploration in each area.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 2","pages":"26-47"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6030926","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}
Christian Hofer, Jordan M. Barker, Laura D'Oria, Jonathan L. Johnson
{"title":"Broadening our understanding of interfirm rivalry: A call for research on how supply networks shape competitive behavior and performance","authors":"Christian Hofer, Jordan M. Barker, Laura D'Oria, Jonathan L. Johnson","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12281","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In their pursuit of greater performance, firms invariably compete with their rivals for customer demand or scarce resources in factor markets. Firms' competitive behavior—the series of competitive actions taken to create or maintain competitive advantage—thus, is a key predictor of profitability and has received much attention in the strategic management literature. The central tenet of this article is that supply networks and the relationships among firms in these networks fundamentally shape the nature of interfirm competition and, ultimately, firm performance. Although prior research has amply studied the competitive dynamics among (horizontal) rival firms as well as the linkages between supply network characteristics and firm performance, there remain important opportunities to examine how supply networks enable and shape firms' competitive behavior and the effectiveness of their rivalrous activity. The goal of this article, therefore, is to take stock of the advances made in prior literature and to outline topics for future study at the intersection of competition and supply chain management. Collectively, we lay out a comprehensive perspective on the role that supply networks can play in affecting competition that, we hope, will inform and guide efforts to enhance our understanding of firm-level competitive behavior and associated performance outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 2","pages":"8-25"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6072253","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":"Narratives in supplier negotiations—The interplay of narrative design elements, structural power, and outcomes","authors":"Lutz Kaufmann, Moritz Schreiner, Felix Reimann","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12280","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In buyer–supplier negotiations, both parties shape the relational and contractual dimensions of their collaboration. Being able to influence the other party during negotiations is therefore vital to improve performance outcomes. This research takes a configurational approach to investigate how buyers can use narratives in different power situations to influence suppliers and improve their relational and economic negotiation results. In our first study, we conduct narrative writing workshops to identify typical design elements of such narratives. In our second study, we employ fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to determine how different configurations of these design elements influence narratives' effectiveness in different power situations. Our theoretical contributions are twofold. First, we expand narrative transportation theory, showing that narratives consist of interlinked design elements and that narrative effectiveness is a causally complex phenomenon. Second, for the field of supply chain management, we develop theory by introducing narratives as an additional means of influence in buyer–supplier negotiations and by examining the interplay between narrative design elements, structural power, and negotiation outcomes that are specific to the buyer–supplier relationship. Based on the configurations of narratives that we found were effective and ineffective in different power situations, we derive propositions to advance theory on buyer–supplier negotiations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"59 1","pages":"66-94"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5685089","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}
Julia Hartmann, Sebastian Forkmann, Sabine Benoit, Stephan C. Henneberg
{"title":"A consumer perspective on managing the consequences of chain liability","authors":"Julia Hartmann, Sebastian Forkmann, Sabine Benoit, Stephan C. Henneberg","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12279","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Consumers tend to hold a focal firm responsible for its suppliers' unsustainable practices (chain liability), suggesting that firms need effective responses that can mitigate negative consumer reactions. In applying psychological contract theory to investigate recovery efforts related to such chain liability, the current study addresses three broad focal firm responses: Do nothing, choose a nonsubstantive response that verbally clarifies its own and the supplier's roles in the incident, or substantively rectify the supplier's wrongdoing with sustainability-focused responses, such as termination, monitoring or development. With a vignette-based experiment, we examine consumer perceptions and behaviors in three stages: before the unsustainable supplier incident (pre-incident), after the incident (post-incident) and after the focal firm has responded (post-response). A nonsubstantive, clarification response decreases consumers' purchase intentions; substantive focal firm activities increase purchase intentions, though not fully back to pre-incident levels. For consumers, termination, monitoring and development seem like equally adequate responses. Although combining several substantive responses offers even greater effectiveness for recovering purchase intentions, it still falls short of reaching pre-incident levels. Thus, our findings demonstrate the focal firm's capacity to address suppliers' unsustainable practices substantively and recover, at least partially, its damaged relationship with consumers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 4","pages":"58-89"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5771640","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}
Henrik Sternberg, Isidro Linan, Günter Prockl, Andreas Norrman
{"title":"Tragedy of the facilitated commons: A multiple-case study of failure in systematic horizontal logistics collaboration","authors":"Henrik Sternberg, Isidro Linan, Günter Prockl, Andreas Norrman","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12278","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Horizontal logistics collaboration can increase environmental sustainability and reduce shipping costs. Given these benefits—and the fact that few shippers actually opt to collaborate—public sector agencies and industry associations have attempted to sponsor and support the facilitation of horizontal logistics collaboration projects over the past 20 years. The literature, however, has yet to reveal the fact that these efforts have largely failed. Here, we introduce <i>systematic horizontal logistics collaboration</i> and apply Ostrom's theory of the commons and agency theory to extract antecedents on why these projects failed. We present a multiple-case study on unsuccessful horizontal logistics collaboration projects in Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark. We address a gap in supply chain literature with regard to systematic collaboration; we also demonstrate the utility of commons theory in the supply chain domain and contribute to the literature on supply chain collaboration with facilitators. Finally, we discuss managerial implications, both for the practitioners attempting systematic horizontal logistics collaboration and for the policymakers seeking to promote it.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 4","pages":"30-57"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12278","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5898791","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}
Thomas F. Gattiker, Julia Hartmann, Finn Wynstra, Mark Pagell, David Cantor, Tingting Yan, Wendy Tate
{"title":"Testing the shoulders of giants—Replication research using registered reports","authors":"Thomas F. Gattiker, Julia Hartmann, Finn Wynstra, Mark Pagell, David Cantor, Tingting Yan, Wendy Tate","doi":"10.1111/jscm.12276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12276","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This editorial encourages supply chain management researchers to conduct and submit replication research for publication consideration to the <i>Journal of Supply Chain Management</i>. The Journal is particularly interested in efforts to replicate both recently published papers that have the potential to change the direction of the discipline and highly influential or “seminal” papers in the supply chain management discipline, regardless of where they were initially published. The Journal will be using the registered report process for these submissions to create strong incentives for researchers to conduct replication studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51392,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Supply Chain Management","volume":"58 3","pages":"89-94"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jscm.12276","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5780390","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}