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Supply chain sustainability risk management in the era of mandatory due diligence: A literature review 强制性尽职调查时代的供应链可持续性风险管理：文献综述

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101083

Charlotte Marie Both, Miriam Wilhelm

The emerging supply chain due diligence regulations share one common objective: Firms must address the potential adverse impacts their supply chain activities pose to people and nature. So far, firms and scholars have framed these supply chain sustainability risks (SCSR) mainly as risks to the enterprise. The required shift toward this outward-facing approach to SCSR calls for new management practices. To investigate the extent to which the current SCSR literature can inform this new approach, we conducted a systematic literature review of 66 articles published between 2004 and 2024 and compared them with the supply chain due diligence outlined in international guidelines. The current SCSR literature is largely misaligned with the outward-facing approach to risk, relying on compliance-based identification measures and firm-centered impact assessments, while overlooking potentially affected stakeholder perspectives and consequences of SCSR management for suppliers and sourcing regions. We outline several future research avenues to bridge these gaps, including stakeholder-led identification, science-based assessment methods, fair cost distribution measures, and responsible disengagement strategies. With this work, our study guides researchers in producing knowledge that can support firms both in preventing the potential adverse impacts of their supply chains and in meeting regulatory requirements.

新兴的供应链尽职调查法规有一个共同的目标：企业必须解决其供应链活动对人类和自然造成的潜在不利影响。到目前为止，企业和学者将供应链可持续性风险主要定义为企业面临的风险。向这种面向外部的企业社会责任方法的必要转变需要新的管理实践。为了研究当前的供应链责任文献在多大程度上可以为这种新方法提供信息，我们对2004年至2024年间发表的66篇文章进行了系统的文献综述，并将其与国际指南中概述的供应链尽职调查进行了比较。当前的企业社会责任文献在很大程度上与面向外部的风险方法不一致，依赖于基于合规性的识别措施和以公司为中心的影响评估，而忽视了潜在受影响的利益相关者的观点以及供应商和采购地区的企业社会责任管理的后果。我们概述了几个未来的研究途径来弥合这些差距，包括利益相关者主导的识别、基于科学的评估方法、公平的成本分配措施和负责任的脱离战略。通过这项工作，我们的研究指导研究人员产生知识，这些知识既可以帮助企业预防供应链的潜在不利影响，又可以帮助企业满足监管要求。

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The state of corporate sustainability due diligence in sustainable supply chain management practices – A social perspective 可持续供应链管理实践中企业可持续发展尽职调查的现状——社会视角

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101089

Matthew Skerritt , Leonard Taylor , Amaya Vega , Amir Hossein Azadnia , George Onofrei

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD) Directive, effective in the EU from 2027, mandates businesses to conduct extensive human rights due diligence in their supply chains, particularly concerning labour issues. This paper examines the relationship between CSDD and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) Practices, and in doing so, explains how CSDD can be understood as a process within SSCM. A systematic, content-analysis-based review of 70 peer-reviewed articles, using contingency analysis, highlights the association between CSDD and SSCM practices. Key findings include a reliance on codes of conduct and auditing as the main drivers for ensuring supplier compliance with working condition standards. However, over-reliance on auditing to identify and track the management of labour abuses in focal firm supply chains is problematic, given widely documented issues with the reliability of audit reports in global supply chains. Through the lens of institutional theory, decoupling was identified at the supplier level in the form of mock compliance, and at the focal firm level through the deployment of strategic ambiguity in reporting practices. To enhance supplier compliance with social standards, the study recommends partner development programs and engaging in joint problem-solving to address the root causes of the violations. The findings of this study highlight significant gaps in the literature, emphasising the need for further research on human rights in the supply chain management field.

《企业可持续发展尽职调查指令》（CSDD）将于2027年在欧盟生效，该指令要求企业在其供应链中进行广泛的人权尽职调查，特别是在劳工问题上。本文考察了CSDD和可持续供应链管理（SSCM）实践之间的关系，并在此过程中解释了CSDD如何被理解为SSCM中的一个过程。使用偶然性分析，对70篇同行评议文章进行了系统的、基于内容分析的综述，强调了CSDD和SSCM实践之间的联系。主要发现包括依赖行为准则和审计作为确保供应商遵守工作条件标准的主要驱动力。然而，考虑到全球供应链中审计报告可靠性的广泛记录问题，过度依赖审计来识别和跟踪重点公司供应链中劳工滥用的管理是有问题的。通过制度理论的视角，在供应商层面以模拟合规的形式确定了脱钩，在焦点公司层面通过在报告实践中部署战略模糊性来确定脱钩。为了加强供应商对社会标准的遵守，该研究建议合作伙伴发展计划，并共同解决问题，以解决违规行为的根本原因。本研究的发现突出了文献中的重大差距，强调了在供应链管理领域进一步研究人权的必要性。

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Individual behavior in sustainable supply chain management: A systematic literature review 可持续供应链管理中的个体行为：系统文献综述

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101037

Rüdiger Hahn , Regina Hahn , Anna Land , Thomas Gattiker

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A practice-based view to supply chain sustainability learning: A systematic literature review 供应链可持续性学习的实践视角：系统文献综述

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101060

Dhanushi Rodrigo , Gabriela Gliga , Sarah Diffley , Graham Heaslip , George Onofrei

Progress towards the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly within supply chains remains slow. One reason is the lack of sustainability awareness and understanding due to limited sustainability learning. Sustainability learning involves acquisition of sustainability-related knowledge and behaviours. Supply chain sustainability practices underpinned by supply chain sustainability learning mechanisms are likely to have lasting effects than those driven by compliance, which can be superficial and short term oriented. However, it is unclear what learning mechanisms enable the effective deployment of supply chain sustainability practices. Conducting a systematic literature review adopting a practice-based view of supply chain sustainability, this study examines the intersection of supply chain sustainability learning and supply chain sustainability practices literature. Employing content, frequency and contingency analysis techniques on fifty-five peer-reviewed journal articles, we reveal: (1) frequently studied supply chain sustainability practices, learning mechanisms and associated outcomes, (2) configuration of learning mechanisms impacting the levels of the supply chain and phases of learning and development, (3) three distinct clusters of learning mechanisms that enable specific supply chain sustainability practices and outcomes. Undertaking a practice-based view and positioning learning mechanisms as mediators of supply chain sustainability practices, this study contributes to theory and practice by identifying learning mechanisms supporting supply chain sustainability. Future research should investigate 1) digital platforms as emerging learning tools, 2) learning mechanisms in social settings such as communities of practice and, 3) identification and development of individual champions and institutional entrepreneurs as drivers of sustainability learning.

实现联合国可持续发展目标（sdg）的进展仍然缓慢，尤其是在供应链方面。其中一个原因是由于可持续发展学习有限，缺乏可持续发展意识和理解。可持续性学习涉及可持续性相关知识和行为的获取。以供应链可持续性学习机制为基础的供应链可持续性实践可能比那些由遵从性驱动的实践具有持久的影响，后者可能是肤浅的和短期导向的。然而，目前尚不清楚哪些学习机制能够有效地部署供应链可持续性实践。采用基于实践的供应链可持续性观点进行系统的文献综述，本研究考察了供应链可持续性学习与供应链可持续性实践文献的交集。通过对55篇同行评议期刊文章的内容、频率和偶然性分析，我们发现：(1)频繁研究的供应链可持续实践、学习机制和相关结果；(2)影响供应链水平和学习与发展阶段的学习机制配置；(3)实现特定供应链可持续实践和结果的三个不同的学习机制集群。本研究采用基于实践的观点，将学习机制定位为供应链可持续发展实践的中介，通过识别支持供应链可持续发展的学习机制，为理论和实践做出贡献。未来的研究应该探讨：1)数字平台作为新兴的学习工具；2)实践社区等社会环境中的学习机制；3)识别和发展个人冠军和机构企业家作为可持续发展学习的驱动力。

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Unpacking supplier diversity in purchasing and supply management: what do we know and what should we know about? 分析供应商在采购和供应管理中的多样性：我们知道什么，我们应该知道什么？

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101078

Priscila L.S. Miguel , Andrea Lago da Silva , Minelle E. Silva

To further understand supplier diversity (SD), a buyer-oriented initiative for disadvantaged groups, this study investigates the resources available and needed for SD and how power relations shape the dynamics of such a program. Through the lens of the resource dependence theory (RDT), grounded on organizational interdependence, a review of 56 published peer-reviewed papers was conducted. To extend the theory, we have developed an in-depth, deductive analysis. Our findings demonstrate that SD is a concept whose interest consistently grew over time. We found multiple resources available and needed for SD that are often discussed in RDT, such as human and financial resources. Surprisingly, the relational resource, related to interaction-based decision-making, was mapped as an extension of the literature, which is more focused on traditional resources. In terms of power relations, our results were organized according to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships into private and public, and revealed that although mediated power is still the most prominent to implement an SD program, other sources of active and passive power emerged in our data analysis. Our findings also shed light on the interplay of power sources. These results extend both SD and RDT knowledge as we offer new pathways to both scholars and managers about (re)designing SD programs.

为了进一步了解供应商多样性（supplier diversity， SD），这是一项针对弱势群体的以买家为导向的倡议，本研究调查了供应商多样性的可用资源和所需资源，以及权力关系如何影响这一计划的动态。通过资源依赖理论（RDT）的视角，以组织相互依赖为基础，对56篇已发表的同行评议论文进行了综述。为了扩展这一理论，我们进行了深入的演绎分析。我们的研究结果表明，SD是一个随着时间的推移而不断增长的概念。我们发现在RDT中经常讨论的SD可用和需要的多种资源，例如人力和财力资源。令人惊讶的是，与基于互动的决策相关的关系资源被映射为文献的延伸，而文献更关注传统资源。在权力关系方面，我们根据买卖关系的性质将结果分为私人和公共两类，结果表明，虽然中介权力仍然是实施SD计划最突出的权力来源，但我们的数据分析中出现了其他主动和被动权力来源。我们的发现也揭示了能量来源之间的相互作用。这些结果扩展了SD和RDT知识，为学者和管理人员提供了（重新）设计SD项目的新途径。

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SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL literature reviews driving the field of purchasing and supply chain management forward 特刊编辑文献评论推动采购和供应链管理领域向前发展

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2026.101126

Stefan Seuring, Philipp C. Sauer, Daiane Mülling Neutzling, Leonardo Marques

While literature reviews are now well established in purchasing and supply chain management, there is ongoing debate about how they contribute to theory, which is the core aim of this special issue. In this editorial, building on the methods and content of the articles included in the special issue, we reflect on this along two dimensions: (1) the theoretical stance taken shows that different tools can be applied in systematic literature reviews. This is particularly true in data analysis, which can be positioned along an inductive-to-deductive dimension. We reflect on how the papers in this special issue apply different logics of theory development, modification, refinement or extension. Almost obviously, there is no one best way to organize related arguments. (2) Turning to a content-based approach, the accepted papers are linked to the wider field that is in scope for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Here, four related clusters are present: (1) Individual Learning, Knowledge, and Behavior, (2) Power and Dependence, (3) Corporate Sustainability and Supply Chain Due Diligence, (4) Information and Signaling Mechanisms. The contributions include reflections on both established and emerging topics in the field, which serve as a foundation for reflections on missing topics and suggestions for future research directions.

虽然文献综述现在在采购和供应链管理方面已经很好地建立起来，但关于它们如何对理论做出贡献的争论正在进行，这是本期特刊的核心目标。在这篇社论中，我们以特刊中文章的方法和内容为基础，从两个方面进行反思：(1)所采取的理论立场表明，不同的工具可以应用于系统的文献综述。在数据分析中尤其如此，它可以沿着归纳到演绎的维度定位。我们反思这期特刊的论文是如何运用不同的逻辑进行理论发展、修正、提炼或扩展的。几乎很明显，没有一种最好的方法来组织相关的论点。(2)转向基于内容的方法，被接受的论文与《采购与供应管理杂志》范围内的更广泛领域相关联。本文提出了四个相关集群：(1)个人学习、知识与行为；(2)权力与依赖；(3)企业可持续性与供应链尽职调查；(4)信息与信号机制。这些贡献包括对该领域已建立和新兴主题的反思，这是对缺失主题的反思和对未来研究方向的建议的基础。

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Research on SME involvement in public procurement: A review, critique and conceptual framework 中小企业参与公共采购研究：回顾、批判与概念框架

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101052

Anthony Flynn

SME involvement in public procurement has attracted research interest from inside and outside the PSM community for several decades. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review its progress to date and contribute to its future development. It does so by undertaking descriptive and thematic analyses on 119 academic articles, which help to shed light on the characteristics of the subject and its research themes. Five overarching themes emerge: systemic barriers, policy and practice interventions, SME capacity, SME performance and sustainability in the public sector. The paper subsequently organises these themes into a conceptual framework as a first step towards theorization. The framework identifies the systemic and organisational factors that influence SME involvement and the outcomes for suppliers, public sector organisations and the marketplace that stem from such involvement. By integrating the various strands of research in this way, a clearer picture of SME involvement in public procurement starts to take shape. In addition to the conceptual framework, the paper critically evaluates what research has revealed to date while pinpointing areas that deserve future scholarly attention. Relevant in respect of the latter is explicit theoretical framing of issues like SMEs’ capacity to compete, sensitivity to the heterogeneity of SMEs’ as public sector suppliers, and empirical attention to under-explored aspects like typologies of SMEs’ motivations. Implications for practice are also discussed within the paper.

几十年来，中小企业参与公共采购吸引了PSM社区内外的研究兴趣。本文的目的是系统地回顾其迄今为止的进展，并为其未来的发展做出贡献。它通过对119篇学术文章进行描述性和专题分析来实现这一目标，这有助于阐明该主题的特点及其研究主题。出现了五个总体主题：系统性障碍、政策和实践干预、中小企业能力、中小企业绩效和公共部门的可持续性。本文随后将这些主题组织成一个概念框架，作为理论化的第一步。该框架确定了影响中小企业参与的系统和组织因素，以及供应商、公共部门组织和市场参与的结果。通过以这种方式整合各种研究，中小企业参与公共采购的更清晰图景开始形成。除了概念框架之外，本文还批判性地评估了迄今为止的研究成果，同时指出了值得未来学术关注的领域。与后者相关的是对中小企业竞争能力等问题的明确理论框架，对中小企业作为公共部门供应商的异质性的敏感性，以及对中小企业动机类型学等未充分探索的方面的实证关注。本文还讨论了对实践的启示。

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Power in sustainable supply chain management: A systematic literature review 可持续供应链管理中的权力：系统文献综述

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101082

Andrea Tuni , Flavia Cicerelli , Marianna Giorgetti

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is becoming a strategic necessity for multiple companies. Successful implementation of SSCM is dependent upon inter-firm relationships and inter-organisational coordination instruments. This work aims to explore the role of power in diffusing sustainability along supply chains.

A systematic literature review covering 63 publications in peer-reviewed academic journals was conducted. The literature is reviewed according to several perspectives, including methodologies, units of analysis and theories adopted. The core of the literature explores power in the context of SSCM, contextualising findings against the power matrix and the bases of power, which are adopted as theoretical lenses.

Findings reveal that: (i) power is predominantly viewed as a dyadic concept, with fewer studies exploring power dynamics in multi-tier sustainable supply chains; (ii) buyer dominance is considered an enabler to SSCM and supplier dominance is considered a barrier to SSCM, as a result of focal company-driven SSCM programs and prevailing commercial logics being applied to the sustainability domain; (iii) power symmetries, particularly independence between supply chain organisations, and related implications for SSCM are under-researched themes; (iv) mediated bases of power, particularly coercive power, are effective to diffuse sustainability under context-specific conditions, but limit long-term sustainability management development; (v) non-mediated bases of power favouring a more relational approach are widely considered as an enabler to the diffusion of SSCM.

This work contributes to the sustainable supply chain management literature by providing the first contextualised understanding of the role of power in SSCM, elaborating on the power-related circumstances that enable or impair the diffusion of sustainability in supply chains. The theoretical anchoring of the review allows to elaborate on what power positions and through which mediated and non-mediated bases of power, supply chain sustainability diffusion occurs.

可持续供应链管理（SSCM）正成为许多公司的战略需要。SSCM的成功实施取决于公司间的关系和组织间的协调工具。这项工作旨在探讨权力在供应链上传播可持续性方面的作用。对63份同行评议学术期刊的出版物进行了系统的文献综述。文献是根据几个角度，包括方法，分析单位和采用的理论进行审查。这些文献的核心是探讨SSCM背景下的权力，将研究结果与权力矩阵和权力基础相结合，作为理论视角。研究结果表明：(1)权力主要被视为一个二元概念，探索多层次可持续供应链中的权力动态的研究较少；（ii）买方主导地位被认为是SSCM的推动者，供应商主导地位被认为是SSCM的障碍，因为重点公司驱动的SSCM计划和流行的商业逻辑被应用于可持续性领域；（iii）权力对称，特别是供应链组织之间的独立性，以及对供应链管理的相关影响是有待研究的主题；(4)权力的中介基础，特别是强制性权力，在特定环境条件下对扩散可持续性有效，但限制了长期可持续性管理的发展；(v)非中介的权力基础倾向于更相关的方法，被广泛认为是推动SSCM扩散的因素。这项工作为可持续供应链管理文献做出了贡献，提供了对权力在供应链管理中的作用的第一个情境化理解，详细阐述了与权力相关的环境，这些环境会促进或损害供应链中可持续性的传播。回顾的理论锚定允许详细说明哪些权力位置以及通过哪些介导和非介导的权力基础，供应链可持续性扩散发生。

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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 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 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 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 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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