Supply Chain Management: Volume 24 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Richard Wilding, Beverly Wagner

Information sharing in supply chains: a review of risks and opportunities using the systematic literature network analysis (SLNA)

Claudia Colicchia, Alessandro Creazza, Carlo Noè, Fernanda Strozzi

The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the most important research areas on information sharing in supply chains and related risks, taking into account their…

The self-thinking supply chain

Agustina Calatayud, John Mangan, Martin Christopher

An emerging theme in the practitioner literature suggests that the supply chain of the future – enabled especially by developments in ICT – will be autonomous and have predictive…

Impact of IoT challenges and risks for SCM

Hendrik Sebastian Birkel, Evi Hartmann

The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive overview of challenges and risks of the Internet of Things (IoT) in supply chain management (SCM) and provide a structured…

Understanding blockchain technology for future supply chains: a systematic literature review and research agenda

Yingli Wang, Jeong Hugh Han, Paul Beynon-Davies

This paper aims to investigate the way in which blockchain technology is likely to influence future supply chain practices and policies.

Traceability for sustainability – literature review and conceptual framework

Sofia Garcia-Torres, Laura Albareda, Marta Rey-Garcia, Stefan Seuring

This paper aims to examine how companies enact traceability in their global supply chains (SCs) to achieve sustainability goals and how this so-called traceability for…

Swarm intelligence approaches in supply chain management: potentials, challenges and future research directions

Gunjan Soni, Vipul Jain, Felix T.S. Chan, Ben Niu, Surya Prakash

It is worth mentioning that in supply chain management (SCM), managerial decisions are often based on optimization of resources. Till the early 2000s, supply chain optimization…

Smart industry and the pathways to HRM 4.0: implications for SCM

Lara Bartocci Liboni, Luciana Oranges Cezarino, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour, Bruno Garcia Oliveira, Nelson Oliveira Stefanelli

The purpose of this paper is to address the potential impacts of Industry 4.0 on human resource management (HRM) – with a particular focus on employment, job profile and…

Facing disruptive technologies: aligning purchasing maturity to contingencies

Britta Søgaard, Heather Dawn Skipworth, Michael Bourlakis, Carlos Mena, Richard Wilding

This paper aims to explore how purchasing could respond to disruptive technologies by examining the assumptions underlying purchasing strategic alignment and purchasing maturity…

A look into the past and future: theories within supply chain management, marketing and management

David Gligor, Siddik Bozkurt, Ivan Russo, Ayman Omar

Although supply chain scholars have acknowledged the fundamental disruptive changes experienced by today’s supply chains and the ensuing novelty of the research problems worthy of…