International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 40 Issue 10

Agility and lean practices as antecedents of supply chain social sustainability

Vishnu Nath, Rajat Agrawal

The present study aims to empirically investigate whether supply chain agility and lean management practices are antecedents of supply chain social sustainability.

Product returns: a growing problem for business, society and environment

Regina Frei, Lisa Jack, Steve Brown

This article sheds light onto the increasing problem of product returns, which is exacerbated by growing e-commerce. Many retailers and academics are oblivious to the nature and…

Innovativeness and lean practices for triple bottom line: testing of fit-as-mediation versus fit-as-moderation models

Wantao Yu, Roberto Chavez, Mark Jacobs, Chee Yew Wong

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the fit between innovativeness and lean practices (LPs) can affect triple bottom line (TBL) performance. Two types of fit are…

Corona virus, tariffs, trade wars and supply chain evolutionary design

Robert B. Handfield, Gary Graham, Laird Burns

Using the constructal law of physics this study aims to provide guidance to future scholarship on global supply chain management. Further, through two case studies the authors are…