Supply Chain Management: Volume 18 Issue 2

The impact of supply chain risk on supply chain integration and company performance: a global investigation

Li Zhao, Baofeng Huo, Linyan Sun, Xiande Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore the relationships among supply chain risks (SCRs), supply chain integration (SCI), and company performance in a global context.

Motorola's global financial supply chain strategy

Ian D. Blackman, Christopher P. Holland, Timothy Westcott

The purpose of this paper is to define and explore the concept of financial supply chain strategy in a global business environment. The paper aims to illustrate the concepts with…

Exploring synergetic effects between investments in environmental and quality/lean practices in supply chains

Frank Wiengarten, Brian Fynes, George Onofrei

This paper seeks to report the empirical results examining potential synergetic effects between investments in environmental and quality/lean practices within the supply chain.

Isomorphic mechanisms in manufacturing supply chains: a comparison of indigenous Chinese firms and foreign‐owned MNCs

Ting Wu, Elizabeth M. Daniel, Matt Hinton, Paul Quintas

This study aims to demonstrate empirically the varied mechanisms through which supply chain practices of indigenous Chinese companies are influenced by foreign‐owned multinational…

Influences of relationship transparency from intellectual capital reporting on supply chain partnerships with suppliers: a field experiment

Hwan‐Yann Su, Shih‐Chieh Fang, Chaur‐Shiuh Young

This paper aims to explore the intellectual capital (IC) information needed to enable relationship transparency and the influences of relationship transparency on supply chain…

Quality control and supply chain management: a contextual perspective and a case study

Luai E. Jraisat, Ihab H. Sawalha

This paper aims to explore the factors of quality control (QC) among key members of a supply chain and investigate the effect on supply chain management (SCM).

Trust and communication in European agri‐food chains

Christian Fischer

The purpose of this paper is to assess and explain the trust situation in EU agri‐food supply chains in the context of the assumption that the existence of well‐functioning…

Risk and resilience in agri‐food supply chains: the case of the ASDA PorkLink supply chain in Scotland

Philip Leat, Cesar Revoredo‐Giha

The paper examines one of Scotland's major pork supply chains and seeks to identify the key risks and challenges involved in developing a resilient agri‐food supply system…