International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 42 Issue 9

Unlocking supply chain agility and supply chain performance through the development of intangible supply chain analytical capabilities

Trevor Cadden, Ronan McIvor, Guangming Cao, Raymond Treacy, Ying Yang, Manjul Gupta, George Onofrei

Increasingly, studies are reporting supply chain analytical capabilities as a key enabler of supply chain agility (SCAG) and supply chain performance (SCP). This study…

Partners' knowledge utilization and exploratory innovation: the moderating effect of competitive and collaborative relationships

Jiuling Xiao, Yuting Bao

Partners' knowledge is an essential source of knowledge for organizations in the collaborative innovation. Exploratory innovation is an innovation strategy that is significant to…

Configurations of financing instruments for supply chain cost reduction: evidence from Chinese manufacturing companies

Lixu Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiande Zhao

Although supply chain finance (SCF) aims to optimize capital flows in the supply chain process, its effectiveness in improving cost performance remains controversial. From the…

Redesigning global supply chains during compounding geopolitical disruptions: the role of supply chain logics

Samuel Roscoe, Emel Aktas, Kenneth J. Petersen, Heather Dawn Skipworth, Robert B. Handfield, Farooq Habib

Why do managers redesign global supply chains in a particular manner when faced with compounding geopolitical disruptions? In answering this research question, this study…

The relational focus of small and medium sized actors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF)

Nichapa Phraknoi, Jerry Busby, Mark Stevenson

This paper aims to investigate small and medium-sized upstream suppliers' and downstream distributors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF) arrangements and their…

An empirical investigation of governance mechanism choices in service outsourcing

Yuan Ye, Xiaosong (david) Peng, Raymond Lei Fan, Arunachalam Narayanan

Drawing on transaction cost economics (TCE) theory and organizational information processing theory (OIPT), this study investigates how the alignments between the characteristics…