Supply Chain Management: Volume 26 Issue 1

Managing climate risks through social capital in agrifood supply chains

Imran Ali, Ismail Gölgeci

Despite several contributions to greenhouse gas emission and carbon footprint reduction, the literature lacks empirical insights into the business impact of climate risks, when…

Measuring the financial effects of mitigating commodity price volatility in supply chains

Barbara Gaudenzi, George A. Zsidisin, Roberta Pellegrino

Firms can choose from an array of approaches for reducing the detrimental financial effects caused by unfavorable fluctuations in commodity prices. The purpose of this paper is to…

Personal and organizational level relationships in relational exchanges in supply chains – a bottom-up model

Chen Qian, Stefan Seuring, Ralf Wagner, Paul A. Dion

This paper aims to examine how trust and communication at the personal level relationships conform to trust and communication at the organizational level relationships and which…

Developing a perceptual distance monitor for client-contractor collaborations

H.J. Christian van der Krift, Arjan J. van Weele, Josette M.P. Gevers

This study aims to propose a tool for conceptualizing and operationalizing perceptual distance in client-contractor collaborations: the perceptual distance monitor (PDM). This…

Supply market orientation: a dynamic capability of the purchasing and supply management function

Kai Foerstl, Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen, Constantin Blome, Matthias Goellner

This paper aims to conceptualize supply market orientation (SMO) for the purchasing and supply chain management function and discusses how SMO capabilities are developed and how…

The mediating effects of HRM practices on the relationship between SCM and SMEs firm performance in Thailand

Siriwan Kitchot, Sununta Siengthai, Vatcharapol Sukhotu

This paper aims to investigate the relationships among supply chain management (SCM) implementation, human resource management (HRM) practices and small- and medium-sized…

Food cold chain management: what we know and what we deserve

Shashi , Piera Centobelli, Roberto Cerchione, Myriam Ertz

The purpose of this paper is to present a quantitatively supported explanation of the intellectual development, the schools of thought and the sub-areas of the food cold chain…

Sustaining extended enterprises as a matter of institutional logics: insights from the railway sector

Maria Lammerdina Bobbink, Andreas Hartmann, Geert Dewulf

This paper aims to investigate the effect of institutional logics on the intended resource coordination and integration in extended enterprises (EEs).