Supply Chain Management: Volume 26 Issue 5

The “horse-meat” scandal: illegal activity in the food supply chain

Robert Smith, Gerard McElwee

Food supply chain theory and practice generally assumes that the business practices and processes involved are ethical, legal and value-adding when this is not always so, as…

Supply chain strategies as drivers of financial performance in liquefied natural gas networks

Nasiru Zubairu, John Dinwoodie, Kannan Govindan, Lise Hunter, Saeyeon Roh

The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate supply chain strategies (SCSs) that drive financial performance to guide practitioners, especially in liquefied natural gas…

A neo-institutional view of the transaction cost drivers of construction supply chain risk management

Raymond Obayi, Seyed Nasrollah Ebrahimi

In a departure from the efficiency theory assumptions implicit in most supply chain risk management (SCRM) literature, this study aims to explore the role that external…

Does national culture matter? Understanding the impact of supply chain integration in multiple countries

Shan Liu, Jing Tan, Hongyi Mao, Yeming Gong

With increasing globalization, supply chain management in various national cultures requires understanding. This study aims to examine the moderating effects of individualistic…

Digitalizing procurement: the impact of data analytics on supply chain performance

Jukka Hallikas, Mika Immonen, Saara Brax

This study aims to investigate digitalization as a performance driver in supply chains, especially the role of data analytics in the digitalization of procurement. The study…