International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 40 Issue 2

Archetypes of sourcing decision-making: The influence of contextual factors on consensus, argumentation and cabal

Martin C. Schleper, Constantin Blome, Alina Stanczyk

The purpose of this paper is to develop taxonomy of sourcing decision-making (SDM) archetypes and explore how different contextual factors influence these archetypes when global…

Building supplier innovation triads: The effects of leadership relationships and alliance partner diversity

Antony Potter, Antony Paulraj

The past decade has seen substantial changes in how organizational leaders work with external stakeholders to improve innovation performance. As leaders have encouraged the…

Strategic and operational remanufacturing mental models: A study on Chinese automotive consumers buying choice

Dirk C. Moosmayer, Muhammad Dan-Asabe Abdulrahman, Nachiappan Subramanian, Lars Bergkvist

Remanufacturing is the only end-of-life (EOL) treatment process that results in as-new functional and aesthetic quality and warranty. However, applying mental model theory, the…

Exploring the dual nature of supplier relationship commitment on buyer behaviors: Considering the levels of buyer-leverage

Anto John Verghese, Xenophon Koufteros, Richard Peters

The authors argue that the supplier’s perspective in managing buyers using relationship commitment is incomplete. The primary reasons for incompleteness are that: the effects of…

When feature-based production capabilities challenge operations: Drivers, moderators, and performance

Pietro De Giovanni

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence that competitors and supply chain (SC) partners have on firms’ feature-based production capabilities (FBPC). Also, it…