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Want to reduce the bullwhip? Measure it. Here’s how
Ming Jin, Nicole DeHoratius, Glen SchmidtThe popular “beer game” illustrates the bullwhip effect where a small perturbation in downstream demand can create wild swings in upstream product flows. The purpose of this paper…
Contrasting the governance of supply chains with and without geographical indications: complementarity between levels
Marta Fernández-Barcala, Manuel González-Díaz, Emmanuel RaynaudThe aim of this paper is to explain the organizational changes along supply chains when a geographical brand, i.e. a place name that has value for commercial purposes, becomes a…
Statistical and judgmental criteria for scale purification
Andreas Wieland, Christian F. Durach, Joakim Kembro, Horst Treiblmaier“Scale purification” – the process of eliminating items from multi-item scales – is widespread in empirical research, but studies that critically examine the implications of this…
Enhancing effects of supply chain resilience: insights from trajectory and resource-based perspectives
Jao-Hong Cheng, Kuo-Liang LuThis paper aims to examine the operating frontier, trajectory and absorptive capacity influencing proactive and reactive dimension of supply chain resilience and implementation in…
Towards a classification of supply chain relationships: a routine based perspective
Muhammad Usman Ahmed, Mehmet Murat Kristal, Mark Pagell, Thomas F. GattikerThis paper studies buyer–supplier relationships (BSRs) by taking a routine-based approach and develops a taxonomy of BSRs. Recent advances in the BSR literature have shown that…
Reverse logistics for the end-of-life and end-of-use products in the pharmaceutical industry: a systematic literature review
Elaine Aparecida Regiani de Campos, Istefani Carisio de Paula, Regina Negri Pagani, Patricia GuarnieriThe aim of this paper is to develop a systematic literature review (SLR) aiming to identify reverse logistics (RL) concepts and practices applied to the end-of-life (EOL) and…
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