International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 41 Issue 8

The purposes of performance management systems and processes: a cross-functional typology

Allan Hansen

This paper aims to organise, in a general typology, the different purposes of performance management systems and processes (PMSPs) that are discussed across the performance…

Addressing supplier sustainability misconducts: response strategies to nonmarket stakeholder contentions

Sara Hajmohammad, Anton Shevchenko, Stephan Vachon

Firms are increasingly accountable for their suppliers' social and environmental practices. Nonmarket stakeholders nowadays do not hesitate to confront buying firms for their…

Tuning value chains for better signals in the post-COVID era: vaccine supply chain concerns

Daniel J. Finkenstadt, Robert B. Handfield

The authors identify the critical bottlenecks that exist in the vaccine supply chain that are preventing a robust coronavirus disease (COVID) response. The authors posit that…

Major customer network structure and supplier trade credit

Shih-Sian (Sherwin) Jhang, Hung-Chung Su, Ta-Wei (Daniel) Kao

This study investigates how a firm's structural embeddedness, the structural position in a supply network that consists of major customers, influences the acquisition of supplier…

Leveraging interorganizational governance for bridging responses to supply chain disruptions: a polynomial regression analysis

Hua Liu, Shaobo Wei

Drawing on the transactional cost economics (TCE) perspective, we aim to investigate the effects of the balance and imbalance between contractual and relational governance on a…

Contingency role of a Supplier's operational efficiency in the customer relationship – performance links

Yoon Hee Kim, Morgan Swink

Extant studies on the relational capital—performance benefits in buyer–supplier relationships (BSRs) give limited attention to the value of internal resources/capabilities…