International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 44 Issue 2

Linking government interventions to firm performance: the influence of stringency and support during the COVID-19 pandemic

Qi Zou, Yuan Wang, Sachin Modi

This study uncovers how government interventions, in terms of stringency and support, shape coronavirus disease 2019's (COVID-19) detrimental impact on organizations' performance…

The effect of SMEs' ambidextrous innovations on supply chain financing performance: balancing effect and moderating effect

Qiang Lu, Yihang Zhou, Zhenzeng Luan, Hua Song

This study empirically investigates how ambidextrous innovations and their balancing affect the supply chain financing performance (SCFP) of small and medium-sized enterprises…

Cracking the code: the effects of codes of conduct and decision frames on supplier selection in financially distressed firms

Christian F. Durach, Mary Parkinson, Frank Wiengarten, Mark Pagell

Firms are increasingly required to make ethical choices when selecting suppliers for their supply chains, and the decisions often rest on individual purchasing managers within the…

Enterprise-wide lean management systems: a test of the abnormal profitability hypothesis

Arnaldo Camuffo, Alberto Poletto

The paper tests if and to what extent lean management system adoption generates abnormal profitability, and how it accrues over time. Configurational approaches to lean management…

Trust and distrust in buyer–supplier relationships: an exploratory experimental study

Jie Chen, Michael Lewis

Although trust and distrust as distinct phenomena are of increasing interest to operations and supply chain management (OSCM) scholars, they have been inconsistently…

Toward suppliers' corporate social responsibility performance: the role of relationship dependence

Zhi Cao, Dong-Young Kim, Yinping Mu, Vinod Singhal

The growing focus on socially responsible supply chain management (SRSCM) has made it crucial to extend corporate social responsibility (CSR) to upstream suppliers. Drawing on…