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Supplier environmental stewardship: Unraveling buyer-supplier dynamics through Social Contagion Theory perspective 供应商环境管理：从社会传染理论的角度分析买方-供应商动态

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101088

Prabhjot S. Mukandwal , Fei (Sophie) Song , Laharish Guntuka

This study explores how contagion effects within supply chains are shaped by specific relational and reputational factors, focusing on how buyers influence their suppliers' environmental stewardship. Contagion effects refer to the phenomenon where certain behaviors, reflected through observable practices, spread through buyer-supplier networks, in this case, environmental behaviors from buyers to their suppliers. Drawing upon Social Contagion Theory, we examine both positive and negative contagion effects, driven by a buyer's environmental performance and ESG-related reputational risk, respectively. The study finds that a buyer's strong environmental performance does not directly lead to improved supplier stewardship. However, when suppliers are more relatively dependent on the buyer, the positive contagion effect is more likely to emerge, enhancing suppliers' observable environmental stewardship behaviors. Conversely, a buyer's ESG-related reputational risk does not inherently result in poor supplier environmental stewardship, though the positive contagion effect may be weakened when the buyer faces higher ESG risks. The study employs a Tobit regression model, analyzing data from 678 buyer-supplier dyads within the manufacturing sector. These findings contribute to the literature by highlighting the conditional nature of contagion effects in supply chains and providing managerial insights into how buyers can effectively promote supplier environmental stewardship.

本研究探讨了供应链中的传染效应如何受到特定关系和声誉因素的影响，重点关注买家如何影响其供应商的环境管理。传染效应是指通过可观察到的实践所反映的某些行为通过买方-供应商网络传播的现象，在这里指的是从买方到其供应商的环境行为。根据社会传染理论，我们分别考察了买方的环境绩效和与esg相关的声誉风险所驱动的积极和消极传染效应。研究发现，买方良好的环境绩效并不直接导致供应商管理的改善。然而，当供应商对买方的相对依赖程度越高时，正传染效应越容易出现，从而增强了供应商可观察到的环境管理行为。相反，买方与ESG相关的声誉风险并不必然导致供应商环境管理不力，尽管当买方面临较高的ESG风险时，正传染效应可能会减弱。该研究采用Tobit回归模型，分析了制造业内678对买方-供应商的数据。这些发现通过强调供应链中传染效应的条件性质，并为买家如何有效促进供应商环境管理提供管理见解，从而有助于文献。

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Better together: Leveraging creative climates to enhance innovative sourcing team performance 更好地合作：利用创新氛围来提高创新采购团队的绩效

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101080

Nadine Kiratli , Frank Rozemeijer , Ad de Jong , Evelyne VanPoucke , Ko de Ruyter

In today's complex and challenging business environment, there is a growing need for innovative sourcing solutions to ensure value creation. Consequently, companies are increasingly delegating their sourcing projects to cross-functional sourcing teams, which must leverage their functional expertise and collective creativity to boast innovative performance. This study draws on social cognitive theory and organizational climate research to investigate the drivers, boundary conditions, and performance implications of a team creativity climate. It shows that team members' beliefs in their creative capabilities determine the creative climate in innovative sourcing teams. Our findings reveal that these teams do not only require highly facilitative leaders to impact the creativity climate but also functional diversity within the team to leverage the link between task-related capabilities and the team's creativity climate. Furthermore, our results indicate that the team creativity climate is constitutive of effective sourcing strategies, which explains almost two-third of the variance of a sourcing team's innovative performance. Through this perspective, this study advances scholarly and managerial knowledge regarding the emergence and impact of creative climates within sourcing teams, offering both implications and research directions.

在当今复杂而充满挑战的商业环境中，越来越需要创新的采购解决方案来确保价值创造。因此，公司越来越多地将他们的采购项目委托给跨职能的采购团队，这些团队必须利用他们的职能专长和集体创造力来夸耀创新的表现。本研究利用社会认知理论和组织氛围研究，探讨团队创造力氛围的驱动因素、边界条件和绩效影响。研究表明，团队成员对其创新能力的信念决定了创新采购团队的创新氛围。我们的研究结果表明，这些团队不仅需要高度促进型的领导者来影响创造力氛围，还需要团队内部的功能多样性来利用任务相关能力和团队创造力氛围之间的联系。此外，我们的研究结果表明，团队创造力氛围是有效采购策略的组成部分，这解释了采购团队创新绩效差异的近三分之二。通过这一视角，本研究推进了关于采购团队中创造性气候的出现和影响的学术和管理知识，提供了启示和研究方向。

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Purchasing and supply management education chronicles: crafting future leaders 采购和供应管理教育编年史：培养未来的领导者

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101084

Michela Guida, Alessio Ronchini, Antonella Moretto, Stefano Ronchi

This paper presents an analysis of two courses in the fields of Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). The aim is to investigate how teaching content and methodologies can be adapted to align with evolving global trends in PSM, while also evaluating their effectiveness in developing the skills essential for professionals in this field. Drawing on a longitudinal tracking of six years, we examine the courses at three levels: course topics, teaching methods, and assessment methods. We link these three course components with the skills required in PSM. This model categorizes procurement skills into technical, interpersonal, internal and external (to the company), and strategic skills. The findings highlight the significance of integrating both theoretical foundations and practical applications in PSM education. The study provides insights into how PSM courses can be designed to foster the development of both hard and soft skills that are crucial for procurement professionals. Moreover, the results highlight the importance of regular course reviews to accommodate emerging trends and industry demands. This study makes both theoretical and practical contributions. Theoretically, it offers professors and lecturers a comprehensive framework for designing PSM courses. Practically, it provides managers with guidance on collaborating with academic institutions to promote project-based learning with students, which can help attract talent and advance applied research in the field of PSM.

本文对采购与供应管理（PSM）和供应商关系管理（SRM）这两门课程进行了分析。目的是调查教学内容和方法如何适应PSM不断变化的全球趋势，同时评估其在培养该领域专业人员必备技能方面的有效性。在六年的纵向跟踪中，我们从三个层面检查课程：课程主题，教学方法和评估方法。我们将这三个课程组成部分与PSM所需的技能联系起来。该模型将采购技能分为技术、人际关系、内部和外部（对公司而言）以及战略技能。研究结果强调了在PSM教育中整合理论基础和实际应用的重要性。该研究为如何设计PSM课程以促进对采购专业人员至关重要的硬技能和软技能的发展提供了见解。此外，研究结果强调了定期课程回顾对适应新兴趋势和行业需求的重要性。本研究具有理论和实践意义。从理论上讲，它为教授和讲师提供了一个设计PSM课程的综合框架。在实践中，它为管理者提供了与学术机构合作的指导，以促进学生基于项目的学习，这有助于吸引人才，推进PSM领域的应用研究。

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Oops, they did it again! How do buying firms respond to resurgent supplier sustainability incidents 哎呀，他们又来了！采购公司如何应对供应商可持续性事件

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101106

Andrew P. Kach , Mehrdokht Pournader

Buying firms adopt and utilize various strategies in response to criticism from stakeholders following supply chain sustainability-related disruptions; however, responses to supplier incidents may only be temporary, and over time, incidents tend to re-occur (‘resurgence’). The resurgence of similar supplier sustainability incidents (SSIs), even after perceived attention from various stakeholders, has received limited prior attention. Using a mixed methods approach, we first analyzed global media incident reports from 2007 to 2016 for the top ten most scrutinized corporations in terms of SSIs. We identified thematic patterns across incident severity and institutional distance as a basis for the drivers of resurgent SSIs amongst suppliers. Following this, we developed a framework through which factors that shape sustainability-related supply chain decision making by firms could be tested via factorial designed experiments. The results suggest that firms are less likely to hold suppliers responsible for SSIs when the severity is lower, distance is greater, or the incident has not previously occurred (i.e., not resurgent). Furthermore, these incidents tend to be taken more seriously contingent upon the firm's relationship with their supplier, particularly when environmental incidents occur.

采购公司采用并利用各种策略来应对供应链可持续性相关中断后利益相关者的批评；然而，对供应商事件的反应可能只是暂时的，随着时间的推移，事件往往会再次发生（“死灰复燃”）。类似的供应商可持续性事件（ssi）的复苏，即使在各种利益相关者意识到关注之后，也得到了有限的事先关注。采用混合方法，我们首先分析了2007年至2016年全球媒体事件报道中最受关注的十大安全攻击企业。我们确定了事件严重性和机构距离之间的主题模式，作为供应商之间ssi复苏的驱动因素的基础。在此之后，我们开发了一个框架，通过该框架，可以通过析因设计实验来测试影响企业可持续发展相关供应链决策的因素。结果表明，当严重程度较低、距离较大或事件以前没有发生过（即没有再次发生）时，企业不太可能要求供应商对ssi负责。此外，这些事件往往更严重地取决于公司与供应商的关系，特别是当环境事件发生时。

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Getting past the desk rejection: five critical gates to clear 通过办公桌拒绝：五个关键的门要通过

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2026.101109

Andrea S. Patrucco, Carmela Di Mauro, Steven Carnovale

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Supply decisions for circular business models: What are they, and why do they matter? 循环商业模式的供应决策：它们是什么，为什么它们很重要？

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101079

Minttu Laukkanen , Nina Tura , Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen

Purchasing and supply decisions face new challenges due to resource scarcity and the urgent need for solutions. While circular business models—which focus on closing, slowing, narrowing, and intensifying resource loops to keep resources in use longer, minimize waste, maximize value, and reduce virgin material consumption—offer essential solutions, little is currently known about supply decisions within such models. This qualitative exploratory study investigates supply decisions and their associated criteria for circular business models. We focus on clothing libraries, a novel circular business model where members borrow curated garments. Drawing on insights from six clothing libraries and 10 suppliers, we developed a framework for supply decisions for circular business models. This framework shows four selection decisions as key decisions for circular business models: 1) supplier, 2) product, 3) material, and 4) supply channel. The results also distinguish between criteria for the upstream and downstream aspects of the supply chain. This highlights the importance of understanding the entire lifecycle of products and materials. While our study identifies a wide range of criteria for supply decisions for circular business models, it does not propose a fixed order for their consideration. Instead, these decisions rely on multiple sets of criteria across different levels (supplier, product, material, channel). The sequence and weighting of these criteria vary, depending on expert knowledge applied case-by-case. This approach allows supply decisions to effectively support circular business models in facilitating more sustainable resource use. As a contribution to purchasing and supply management, our study elaborates on circular sourcing and supplier selection by expanding the scope of circularity criteria and deepening the understanding of individual criteria, but also challenging the conventional approach of identifying and weighting criteria.

由于资源短缺和迫切需要解决方案，采购和供应决策面临新的挑战。虽然循环商业模式——专注于关闭、减缓、缩小和强化资源循环，以保持资源的使用时间更长，最大限度地减少浪费，最大化价值，减少原始材料的消耗——提供了基本的解决方案，但目前对这种模式中的供应决策知之甚少。这个定性的探索性研究调查了供应决策和他们的循环商业模式的相关标准。我们专注于服装图书馆，这是一种新颖的循环商业模式，会员可以借阅经过策划的服装。根据6家服装库和10家供应商的见解，我们开发了一个循环商业模式的供应决策框架。这个框架显示了四个选择决策作为循环商业模式的关键决策：1)供应商，2)产品，3)材料，和4)供应渠道。结果还区分了供应链的上游和下游方面的标准。这凸显了了解产品和材料的整个生命周期的重要性。虽然我们的研究为循环商业模式的供应决策确定了广泛的标准，但它并没有提出一个固定的顺序供他们考虑。相反，这些决策依赖于跨不同层次（供应商、产品、材料、渠道）的多组标准。这些标准的顺序和权重各不相同，取决于具体情况下应用的专家知识。这种方法允许供应决策有效地支持循环商业模式，以促进更可持续的资源利用。作为对采购和供应管理的贡献，我们的研究通过扩大循环标准的范围和加深对单个标准的理解，详细阐述了循环采购和供应商选择，但也挑战了识别和加权标准的传统方法。

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How does supplier integration improve firm performance? Insights from a meta-analytic structural equation modeling study 供应商整合如何提高公司绩效？来自元分析结构方程建模研究的见解

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101055

François C. Giraud-Carrier , Carolee Cosgrove , Hamed Qahri-Saremi

Supplier integration is heralded by researchers as a fundamental supply chain management capability that supports a broad range of firm performance outcomes. Yet open questions remain around how the dimensions of supplier integration (information, operational, and relational integration) shape firm performance. Closing this gap is important as managers need strong evidence and guidance to identify, justify, prioritize, maintain, and defend investments in the broad set of activities needed to turn their supplier integration efforts into a strategic asset, and to guard against cost-cutting mandates that are not in the best interest of the firm. In this study, we draw on 184 primary studies (41,498 observations) and state-of-the-art two-stage meta-analytic structural equation modeling to empirically test our holistic structural model that shows how efficiency, effectiveness, customer experience, and product innovation explain the degree to which information, operational, and relational integration contribute to financial and market measures of firm performance. Our results and subsequent discussion may help supply chain managers better understand and maximize the impact of their supplier integration efforts, troubleshoot issues, and prepare for the opportunities and challenges in modern supply chains. Some recommendations include: (1) prioritize relational integration with suppliers above information integration and operational integration; (2) be cautious when prioritizing efficiency as an end; and (3) stay focused on creating superior customer experiences and innovative products and services when designing and implementing supplier integration initiatives.

供应商整合被研究人员视为一种基本的供应链管理能力，支持广泛的企业绩效结果。然而，关于供应商整合的维度（信息、运营和关系整合）如何影响企业绩效的问题仍然存在。缩小这一差距是很重要的，因为管理者需要强有力的证据和指导来识别、证明、确定优先级、维护和捍卫在将供应商集成努力转变为战略资产所需的广泛活动中的投资，并防止不符合公司最佳利益的成本削减命令。在本研究中，我们利用184项主要研究（41,498项观察）和最先进的两阶段元分析结构方程模型对我们的整体结构模型进行了实证检验，该模型显示了效率、有效性、客户体验和产品创新如何解释信息、运营和关系集成对企业绩效的财务和市场度量的贡献程度。我们的结果和随后的讨论可以帮助供应链管理者更好地理解和最大化他们的供应商整合工作的影响，解决问题，并为现代供应链中的机遇和挑战做好准备。建议包括：(1)优先考虑与供应商的关系集成，而不是信息集成和业务集成；(2)以效率为目的要谨慎；(3)在设计和实施供应商整合计划时，专注于创造卓越的客户体验和创新的产品和服务。

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Co-creation of understanding through early buyer-supplier interaction: Sensemaking and sensegiving in public infrastructure tenders 通过早期的买方-供应商互动共同创造理解：公共基础设施招标中的意义制造和意义传递

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101074

Ruth N.F. Sloot, Leentje Volker, Johannes T. Voordijk

Over the past decades, public procurement has shifted towards strategic, value-based approaches. These methods allow for a better understanding and alignment of interests between buyers and suppliers in the public domain by fostering early buyer-supplier interaction through formalized dialogues. While extant literature has offered important insights into the benefits of early buyer-supplier interaction, little attention has been given to understanding the practices upon which these actors draw in this interaction. This paper investigates the early interaction between buyers and suppliers in a major infrastructure project using a sensemaking and sensegiving perspective. Drawing on a case study of a Competitive Dialogue procedure in the Netherlands, we identify four interrelated sensemaking and sensegiving practices that form iterative cycles of meaning construction: buyer sensegiving, supplier sensemaking, supplier sensegiving, and buyer sensemaking. By examining how these practices unfold under formal constraints and the competitive pressure of a tender, the study contributes to sensemaking theory by showing how meaning construction operates across organizational boundaries in institutionalized, procedural and competitive settings. We also advance purchasing and supply management research by introducing vocabulary for analyzing early-stage interaction in public tenders. Finally, we contribute to public procurement literature by providing a practice-based perspective on how formal procedures like a competitive dialogue shape the depth, scope, and direction of buyer-supplier interaction in the tender of complex projects.

在过去的几十年里，公共采购已经转向战略性的、基于价值的方法。这些方法通过正式的对话促进早期的买方-供应商互动，从而更好地理解和协调公共领域中买方和供应商之间的利益。虽然现有文献对早期买方-供应商互动的好处提供了重要的见解，但很少有人关注理解这些参与者在这种互动中所依赖的实践。本文从意义制造和意义赋予的角度研究了大型基础设施项目中买方和供应商之间的早期互动。通过对荷兰竞争对话过程的案例研究，我们确定了四种相互关联的意义构建和意义赋予实践，它们形成了意义构建的迭代循环：买方意义赋予、供应商意义赋予、供应商意义赋予和买方意义赋予。通过研究这些实践是如何在正式约束和投标的竞争压力下展开的，该研究通过展示意义构建如何在制度化、程序化和竞争性环境中跨越组织边界运作，为意义构建理论做出了贡献。我们还通过引入词汇来分析公开招标中的早期互动，从而推进采购和供应管理研究。最后，我们为公共采购文献提供了一个基于实践的视角，即竞争性对话等正式程序如何在复杂项目招标中塑造买方-供应商互动的深度、范围和方向。

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Supply network attention by SMEs – a theory elaborating study 中小企业对供应网络的关注——一个理论阐发研究

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101013

Chris Ellegaard, Jim Lozinski, Hanne Kragh

This paper examines SME managers’ attention to operations and supply chain management issues and their decision-making process. To generate insights on this process, we carried out a qualitative theory-elaborating study, seeking to elaborate on established theory on strategic attention, but in the context of SMEs making operations and supply management decisions. We find that SME attention and decision-making is constrained by supplier agency in what we term outside-in attention. In addition, SME decision-makers pay attention to the capabilities, resources, and relationships with suppliers, as they evaluate issues and answers, but frequently fail to take the present and future interconnectedness of issues into account. We contribute to the established literature on SME supply management by developing a model of SME operations and supply chain management attention and decision-making and present a series of propositions subject to further research.

本文考察了中小企业管理者对运营和供应链管理问题的关注及其决策过程。为了深入了解这一过程，我们进行了一项定性的理论阐述研究，试图在中小企业进行运营和供应管理决策的背景下，阐述关于战略注意力的既定理论。我们发现中小企业的注意力和决策受到供应商代理的约束，我们称之为由外而内的注意力。此外，中小企业决策者在评估问题和答案时，会关注能力、资源和与供应商的关系，但往往没有考虑到问题的当前和未来的相互联系。我们通过建立中小企业运营和供应链管理关注和决策的模型，对中小企业供应管理的现有文献做出贡献，并提出了一系列有待进一步研究的命题。

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Advancing green supply chains through downstream digitalization: An information processing theory perspective 通过下游数字化推进绿色供应链：信息处理理论视角

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101015

Graça Miranda Silva , Andrea S. Patrucco , Paulo J. Gomes

Environmental sustainability has become a critical priority in supply chain management, driven by evolving customer expectations and regulatory pressures. While digitalization's role in improving operational efficiency is well-established, its specific impacts on environmental performance through downstream supply chain processes remain underexplored. Drawing on Information Processing Theory (IPT), this study investigates how downstream supply chain digitalization (DSCD) enhances information processing capabilities, enabling firms to effectively implement distinct green supply chain management (GSCM) practices—internal environmental management, eco-design, green purchasing, and investment recovery. Using structural equation modeling on data collected from 373 manufacturing firms in Portugal, our findings demonstrate that internal and external GSCM practices mediate the relationship between DSCD and EP. Specifically, internal environmental management systems are foundational in facilitating external GSCM practices, thus amplifying DSCD's impact on EP. This research contributes to the supply chain management literature by highlighting how downstream digitalization enables firms to address customer-centric sustainability challenges and by emphasizing the essential role of internal structures in supporting environmental goals. Practically, the study guides supply chain managers in aligning downstream digitalization investments strategically with targeted sustainability initiatives to enhance environmental outcomes.

在不断变化的客户期望和监管压力的推动下，环境可持续性已成为供应链管理的关键优先事项。虽然数字化在提高运营效率方面的作用已经确立，但其通过下游供应链流程对环境绩效的具体影响仍未得到充分探讨。本研究以资讯处理理论（IPT）为基础，探讨下游供应链数位化（DSCD）如何提升资讯处理能力，使企业能有效实施不同的绿色供应链管理（GSCM）实践，包括内部环境管理、生态设计、绿色采购和投资回收。通过对葡萄牙373家制造企业的数据进行结构方程建模，我们的研究结果表明，内部和外部GSCM实践介导了DSCD和EP之间的关系。具体而言，内部环境管理系统是促进外部GSCM实践的基础，从而扩大DSCD对EP的影响。本研究通过强调下游数字化如何使企业能够应对以客户为中心的可持续性挑战，并强调内部结构在支持环境目标方面的重要作用，为供应链管理文献做出了贡献。实际上，该研究指导供应链管理者将下游数字化投资与有针对性的可持续发展举措战略性地结合起来，以提高环境成果。

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