Supply Chain Management: Volume 17 Issue 6

Dimensions of sustainable value chains: implications for value chain analysis

Andrew Fearne, Marian Garcia Martinez, Benjamin Dent

Value chain analysis (VCA) can expose strategic and operational misalignments within chains, and the consequential misallocation of resources, and hence opportunities for…

The value of upstream recognition of goals in supply chains

Marian Oosterhuis, Taco van der Vaart, Eric Molleman

The literature on supply chain management has focused on the benefits of frequent and strategic communication in supply chains. However, it has paid much less attention to the…

The impact of supply chain integration on company performance: an organizational capability perspective

Baofeng Huo

This paper aims to simultaneously examine the impact of three types of supply chain integration (SCI) on three types of company performance from the perspective of organizational…

Effects of geographic dispersion on intra‐firm supply chain performance

Harri Lorentz, Juuso Töyli, Tomi Solakivi, Hanne‐Mari Hälinen, Lauri Ojala

This article aims to quantify and analyse empirically how the geographic dispersion of a firm's supply chain impacts on intra‐firm supply chain performance.

In‐depth joint supply chain learning: towards a framework

Frank Lambrechts, Tharsi Taillieu, Styn Grieten, Johan Poisquet

The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework for understanding how in‐depth joint supply chain learning can be successfully developed. This kind of learning is…

Demand management in downstream wholesale and retail distribution: a case study

Kwok Hung Lau

This case study aims to examine the role of demand management in balancing distribution efficiency and responsiveness to customer needs in the downstream of a retail supply chain.

Variation and uncertainty buffering: a grocery supply case

Roy Stratton

The key constructs and causal relationships underpinning supply chain dynamics have long been established but this understanding is not readily related to more recently developed…

Strategic analysis of offshore migration of polluting firms and suppliers: an option value perspective

Tzong‐Ru (Jiun‐Shen) Lee, Yenming J. Chen

This paper, being complementary to existing perspectives, aims to examine the behaviors and the strategies of production migration of polluting firms from an economic point of…