Supply Chain Management: Volume 21 Issue 4

Contextual factors and lean production implementation in the Brazilian automotive supply chain

Giuliano Almeida Marodin, Alejandro Germán Frank, Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Tarcisio Abreu Saurin

This paper aims to understand the patterns of lean production implementation, and the relationship between three context factors (i.e. firm size, positions within the supply chain…

The impact of ambidexterity on supply chain flexibility fit

Araceli Rojo, Javier Llorens-Montes, Maria Nieves Perez-Arostegui

The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether supply chain (SC) ambidexterity improves supply chain flexibility (SCF) and its impact on SC competence and firm performance. A new…

Dynamic development and execution of closed-loop supply chains: a natural resource-based view

Joe Miemczyk, Mickey Howard, Thomas E. Johnsen

This paper aims to reflect on recent closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) practices using a natural resource-based view (NRBV) and dynamic capabilities (DC) perspective.

Accelerating supply chain management learning: identifying enablers from a university-industry collaboration

Trish Gibson, Donald Kerr, Ron Fisher

There is an acknowledged need to advance the supply chain management (SCM) learning agenda, with an emphasis on integration. This paper discuss an Australian university–industry…

Associating the motivation with the practices of firms going green: the moderator role of environmental uncertainty

Sonia M. Lo, Yu-Anne Shiah

This study aims to explore the moderation effect of environment uncertainties (supply, competition and demand) in the relationship between a firm’s drivers (internal and external…

Dealing with defaulting suppliers using behavioral based governance methods: an agency theory perspective

Ernst-Jan Prosman, Kirstin Scholten, Damien Power

The purpose of this paper is to explore factors influencing the effectiveness of buyer initiated behavioral-based governance methods (BBGMs). The ability of BBGMs to improve…