Supply Chain Management: Volume 19 Issue 4

The impact of supply chain integration on firm performance: The moderating role of competitive strategy

Baofeng Huo, Yinan Qi, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiande Zhao

This paper aims to provide empirical evidence of the effectiveness of various supply chain integration (SCI) practices under different competitive strategies in terms of cost…

Sex and salary: Does size matter? (A survey of supply chain managers)

Paul D. Larson, Matthew Morris

This paper aims to develop and test hypotheses on determinants of supply chain managers’ salaries. While women make up about half the workforce, there is evidence in the trade…

Supply chain orientation in SMEs as an attitudinal construct: Conceptual considerations and empirical application to the dairy sector

Birgit Schulze-Ehlers, Nina Steffen, Gesa Busch, Achim Spiller

The paper aims to advance the conceptual understanding of supply chain orientation (SCO) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) as a general attitude and to empirically…

Using organisational theories to further our understanding of socially sustainable supply chains: The case of fair trade

Claire Moxham, Katri Kauppi

This paper aims to use organisational theories to frame research questions examining how to embed social sustainability in supply chain management (SCM) by focusing on fair trade…

Digital manufacturing-driven transformations of service supply chains for complex products

Jan Holmström, Jouni Partanen

The purpose of this paper is to explore the forms that combinations of digital manufacturing, logistics and equipment use are likely to take and how these novel combinations may…

Exploring agency, knowledge and power in an Australian bulk cereal supply chain: A case study

Romona Byrne, Damien Power

The purpose of this paper is to explore how information sharing practices influenced inter-firm relationships. This was done specifically in relation to bulk commodity supply…

Global supply chains and transfer pricing: Insights from a case study

Timo Seppälä, Martin Kenney, Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö

The purpose of this paper is to integrate the issue of transfer pricing and logistics costs to understand trade statistics and the operation of supply chains by using…

Who cares wins? A comparative analysis of household waste medicines and batteries reverse logistics systems: The case of the NHS (UK)

Ying Xie, Liz Breen

– The purpose of this paper is to determine how best to reduce, reuse and dispose of household waste medicines in the National Health Service (NHS) (UK).