Supply Chain Management: Volume 29 Issue 5

How does strategic agenda building affect valuation of supply resources and sourcing policies? A case from the food industry

Karina Hjørringgaard, Poul Houman Houman Andersen

Business strategy issues increasingly concern value realized from supply resources. However, how supply resources are valorized by managerial factions in a strategic issue setting…

Good team players? The impact of team member knowledge, skills and abilities on sourcing teamwork and sourcing task-work effectiveness

Chris Lonsdale, Joe Sanderson, Ali Esfahbodi

The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of the use of sourcing teams (STs) by organisations in their procurement and supply chain management. The paper achieves this by…

Facilitating the circular economy: insights from novel supply network actors

Anne Ratsimandresy, Joe Miemczyk

This research studies circularity brokers, the economic actors facilitating the transition of companies towards circular operations. The purpose of this paper is to extend the…

Leveraging supply chain visibility for implementing just-in-case practices: the roles of knowledge and digital resources bundling

Wantao Yu, Mark Jacobs, Roberto Chavez, Yongtao Song

This study aims to explore how bundling knowledge resources (i.e. knowledge integration mechanisms [KIMs]) and digital resources (i.e. big data-powered artificial intelligence…

Exploring the supply chain ambidexterity: a multilevel micro-foundational perspective

Javad Feizabadi, Somayeh Alibakhshi, David M. Gligor

This study aims to introduce a multilevel micro-foundational perspective on supply chain (SC) ambidexterity, grounded in organizational learning and adaptation research. It…

The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act: impacts on sustainable supply chain management from a stakeholder perspective

Livia Buttke, Sebastian Schötteler, Stefan Seuring, Frank Ebinger

The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (GSCDDA), as a comprehensive regulation for due diligence in supply chains, will exert profound pressure on companies’ sustainable supply…