Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100895
Kedi Wang , Baofeng Huo , Min Tian , Andy C.L. Yeung
Drawing on information processing theory, this study revisits the interplay between trust and contracts by comprehensively examining the impact of the interaction of different types of trust (i.e., ability trust and goodwill trust) and contracts (i.e., control contract and coordination contract) under different uncertainties (i.e., technology turbulence and dependence disadvantage) on supplier opportunism. We build a moderated moderation model to test the proposed hypotheses using a combined dataset of a survey of 200 Chinese manufacturers and secondary data. The results show that coordination contract weakens the effectiveness of ability trust but strengthens the effectiveness of goodwill trust. When firms face a high level of technological turbulence, both types of contracts weaken the effectiveness of ability trust in curbing opportunism, while under a high level of dependence disadvantage, contracts weaken ability trust but reinforce goodwill trust in curbing opportunism. Our results are found to be robust after being verified by a variety of statistical specifications and estimations. The results provide nuanced insights for both the literature and practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100991
Andrew P. Kach , Vikram Bhakoo , Fiona McGaughey , Martijn Boersma , Justine Nolan , Shelley Marshall Lichtman
As modern slavery and human rights due diligence legislation continues to evolve, businesses are under increased scrutiny to monitor their (global) supply chains. However, research surrounding modern slavery has identified that UK and Australian disclosure-based legislation is ineffective at driving substantive change. Regardless, as governments and policy makers strive toward due diligence, it is imperative that organizations uncover modern slavery incidents in their extended supply chains. After discovery of a violation, remediation is necessary; yet, how businesses handle incidents of modern slavery, particularly throughout their supply chains, is a nascent and prickly issue. We contribute to the conversation within the supply chain modern slavery domain by developing a fertile landscape for future research endeavors connected to modern slavery remediation policy. In doing so, we suggest bold collaboration ideas that PSM scholars can pursue with other disciplines. We hope that this essay will stimulate cross disciplinary scholarship but more importantly facilitate developing meaningful and sustainable solutions for victims/survivors of modern slavery.
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The increasing adoption of blockchain technology (BCT) is transforming operations and relational dynamics within agri-food supply chains. Despite a growing number of studies, the impact of BCT on supply chain relationships remains underexplored. This research identifies the salient elements of the link between BCT and relationships. It explores these empirically to understand the impact of BCT adoption and implementation on supply chain relationships in the agri-food industry, relying on social exchange theory and focusing on trust, formal information flow mechanisms, and quality of information flows and communication.
This study undertakes a multiple qualitative case study analysis of seven Italian companies involved in the agri-food industry operating in the wine, beer, and dairy sectors who are considered pioneers of BCT adoption. The results indicate a positive impact of BCT on the automation of supply chain contracts and operational efficiency, on one hand, and the increased quality of relationships, on the other. Supply chain coordination is required for BCT to be effective. In highly concentrated sectors, the contractual power exerted by big players is a vital factor, while in more fragmented and dispersed industries the role of persuasion, relationships, and supply chain contracts are key.
Three key insights emerge and are discussed. These concern: (i) the rethinking of the role of trust in supply chain relationships impacted by the adoption of BCT; (ii) the enhancement of information-sharing and flow mechanisms in supply chain relationships through the adoption of BCT; and (iii) the optimization of information flow quality and communication dynamics through the adoption of BCT.
This study contributes to the existing literature by providing novel empirical evidence regarding the impact of BCT on relationships. It further contributes to the existing literature by analyzing the impact of blockchain applications on the upstream and downstream levels of the supply chain from a management perspective and by identifying the beneficial exchanges, norms, and principles that shape interactions when BCT is implemented.
{"title":"The role of blockchain technology in supply chain relationships: Balancing efficiency and relational dynamics","authors":"Raffaele Silvestri , Elisa Carloni , Domenico Morrone , Savino Santovito","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100967","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100967","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing adoption of blockchain technology (BCT) is transforming operations and relational dynamics within agri-food supply chains. Despite a growing number of studies, the impact of BCT on supply chain relationships remains underexplored. This research identifies the salient elements of the link between BCT and relationships. It explores these empirically to understand the impact of BCT adoption and implementation on supply chain relationships in the agri-food industry, relying on social exchange theory and focusing on trust, formal information flow mechanisms, and quality of information flows and communication.</div><div>This study undertakes a multiple qualitative case study analysis of seven Italian companies involved in the agri-food industry operating in the wine, beer, and dairy sectors who are considered pioneers of BCT adoption. The results indicate a positive impact of BCT on the automation of supply chain contracts and operational efficiency, on one hand, and the increased quality of relationships, on the other. Supply chain coordination is required for BCT to be effective. In highly concentrated sectors, the contractual power exerted by big players is a vital factor, while in more fragmented and dispersed industries the role of persuasion, relationships, and supply chain contracts are key.</div><div>Three key insights emerge and are discussed. These concern: (i) the rethinking of the role of trust in supply chain relationships impacted by the adoption of BCT; (ii) the enhancement of information-sharing and flow mechanisms in supply chain relationships through the adoption of BCT; and (iii) the optimization of information flow quality and communication dynamics through the adoption of BCT.</div><div>This study contributes to the existing literature by providing novel empirical evidence regarding the impact of BCT on relationships. It further contributes to the existing literature by analyzing the impact of blockchain applications on the upstream and downstream levels of the supply chain from a management perspective and by identifying the beneficial exchanges, norms, and principles that shape interactions when BCT is implemented.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"31 1","pages":"Article 100967"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100956
Artur Swierczek
Logistics service providers (LSPs) can have a profound impact on other companies operating in supply chains. To investigate the role of LSP, we propose and develop the concept of brokered LSP learning (i.e., supply chain learning run by the LSP) as exploitation and exploration practices imposed by the single actor to run organizational learning among supply chain actors. The research examines how supply chain learning run by the LSP affects self-organization of the buyer-supplier dyad and triadic relational performance. Our results provide insight into whether LSP-brokered learning alone is sufficient to improve triadic relational performance. The study shows that LSP-brokered learning, supported by decentralized technologies, has a positive effect on buyer-supplier self-organization. As a resulting effect, the study also operationalizes triadic relational performance composed of the joint impact of relational performances produced by three dyads in the logistics service triads, which can be improved by buyer-supplier self-organization.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100969
Ta-Wei Kao , Hung-Chung Su , Young K. Ro , Wayne Fu
This research examines how mutual and relative dependence on major customers impact supplier productivity. We investigate two research questions: (1) Does the extent of mutual dependence between a supplier and its major customer base exhibit a non-linear impact on supplier productivity? (2) How does the combined influence of the supplier’s relative dependence and mutual dependence on major customers affect supplier productivity? Using major customer relationship data from Compustat segment files, we construct a longitudinal dataset in the manufacturing industry for the period 1998–2017. We estimate supplier productivity accounting for selection bias and employ the fixed effect regression approach to examine the effects of mutual dependence and relative dependence on supplier productivity. Moreover, we address potential endogeneity in the model with the control function approach. Our results indicate an inverted curvilinear relationship between a supplier’s mutual dependence on its major customers and its productivity: While increased mutual dependence initially enhances productivity, the marginal returns diminish. Interestingly, the curvilinear effect becomes more prominent when the supplier’s relative dependence increases. Our study’s findings offer three best-practice strategies including (1) spread and anchor risk, (2) reduce relative dependence, and (3) deepen customer understanding, all of which help suppliers manage the interdependence in major customer relationships.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100973
Ying Yang, Frank Wiengarten, Jas Kalra
{"title":"Improving supplier diversity and inclusion in supply chains","authors":"Ying Yang, Frank Wiengarten, Jas Kalra","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100973"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142720478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100957
Remko van Hoek , Antoine Bagot , Shannon Sexton
Supplier diversity programs are a concrete way for companies to act out Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments and strategies. Literature however suggests that commitment to supplier diversity programs from buyers, suppliers and stakeholders in the business can be less than wholehearted. The scoping of supplier diversity programs can also be narrow and somewhat binary, only partially reflecting the multi-faceted nature of diversity. This paper contributes to this special issue a study of three supplier diversity programs and shares perspectives of supplier diversity leaders in the case companies studied. We find opportunities for companies to move from a focus on D&I compliance, towards a focus on competitive advantage and ESG impact. We suggest approaches for scoping and designing supplier diversity programs that more closely mirror the complexity of diversity and suggest expanded buying criteria. Finally, we contribute future research pathways and managerial suggestions.
{"title":"From checking the box to driving impact – Perspectives on how to develop a supplier diversity program that is less narrowly scoped and more wholeheartedly adopted","authors":"Remko van Hoek , Antoine Bagot , Shannon Sexton","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100957","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100957","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Supplier diversity programs are a concrete way for companies to act out Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments and strategies. Literature however suggests that commitment to supplier diversity programs from buyers, suppliers and stakeholders in the business can be less than wholehearted. The scoping of supplier diversity programs can also be narrow and somewhat binary, only partially reflecting the multi-faceted nature of diversity. This paper contributes to this special issue a study of three supplier diversity programs and shares perspectives of supplier diversity leaders in the case companies studied. We find opportunities for companies to move from a focus on D&I compliance, towards a focus on competitive advantage and ESG impact. We suggest approaches for scoping and designing supplier diversity programs that more closely mirror the complexity of diversity and suggest expanded buying criteria. Finally, we contribute future research pathways and managerial suggestions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100957"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100955
Ernst Johannes Prosman, Nizar Abdelkafi, Verónica León-Bravo
Third-party loop operators play an important role in the circular economy (CE) by closing the resource loops for other firms. These third-party loop operators face a key business model decision: whether to perform CE activities in-house or externally. We adopt the activity-based view (ABV) as a theoretical lens to divide the CE into five activities: collection, sorting, pre-processing, transformation, and integration. By analysing 79 third-party loop operators using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), we found that these activities are performed in two bundles. When third-party loop operators perform the collection activity in-house, they are likely to perform the sorting activity in-house as well. The remaining activities (pre-processing, transformation, and integration) are also performed together, either in-house or externally. Furthermore, we identify some boundary conditions that affect why these activity bundles are performed in-house or externally. When supply concentration is high, third-party loop operators tend to perform collection and sorting in-house because access to highly concentrated sources can result in a competitive advantage. When the uncertainty about waste condition is low, third-party loop operators can develop efficient pre-processing, transformation, and integration activities in-house. Activity gaps emerge when no actor in the market can carry out the activity. In this case, third-party loop operators fill the gap by carrying out the activity internally.
{"title":"The circular business models of third-party loop operators: An activity-based view on performing activities internally or externally","authors":"Ernst Johannes Prosman, Nizar Abdelkafi, Verónica León-Bravo","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100955","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100955","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Third-party loop operators play an important role in the circular economy (CE) by closing the resource loops for other firms. These third-party loop operators face a key business model decision: whether to perform CE activities in-house or externally. We adopt the activity-based view (ABV) as a theoretical lens to divide the CE into five activities: collection, sorting, pre-processing, transformation, and integration. By analysing 79 third-party loop operators using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), we found that these activities are performed in two bundles. When third-party loop operators perform the collection activity in-house, they are likely to perform the sorting activity in-house as well. The remaining activities (pre-processing, transformation, and integration) are also performed together, either in-house or externally. Furthermore, we identify some boundary conditions that affect why these activity bundles are performed in-house or externally. When supply concentration is high, third-party loop operators tend to perform collection and sorting in-house because access to highly concentrated sources can result in a competitive advantage. When the uncertainty about waste condition is low, third-party loop operators can develop efficient pre-processing, transformation, and integration activities in-house. Activity gaps emerge when no actor in the market can carry out the activity. In this case, third-party loop operators fill the gap by carrying out the activity internally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 5","pages":"Article 100955"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100953
Maryam Zomorrodi , Sajad Fayezi , Lydia Bals
Due to various factors, including the institutional context of suppliers, the successful implementation of sustainability initiatives remains a persistent challenge for purchasing and supply management (PSM) professionals. Sourcing from the Base of the Chain (BoC) requires buyers to be cognizant of and assess challenges inherent in engaging with the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) institutional context. Designing governance structures that facilitate the simultaneous pursuit of economic and social goals demands a thorough understanding of these challenges and their contextual antecedents. The literature has addressed institutional voids and incompatibilities between buyer-BoC supplier institutional contexts as critical factors informing interventions aimed at overcoming sourcing challenges. Drawing upon social agency theory, our study advances these debates. We argue that the broader institutional and social context serves as the contextual antecedents to principal-agent (P-A) relationships established between buyers and their BoC suppliers. This perspective provides a more enriched explanation for the antecedents of BoC sourcing challenges. We draw on a multiple case study incorporating 31 interviews and archival data of five BoC sourcing programs within the Australian agribusiness sector. Our findings shed light on how BoC institutional voids cause BoC sourcing challenges across supplier and product domains by inducing hidden information, hidden action, and hidden logic as social agency problems. Hidden logic, a new type of social agency problem identified in our study, refers to the agents' socially constructed sets of assumptions, values, beliefs, and traditions that are invisible to the principals. Consequently, we present insights into why governance structures addressing BoC sourcing challenges may vary across institutional contexts, providing practical guidance for buyers in developed economies concerning the subsequent design and execution of effective BoC sourcing strategies.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100954
Fu Jia (Jeff), Lujie Chen
{"title":"Closing the loop: The fundamental role of Purchasing and Supply Management in reaching a circular economy","authors":"Fu Jia (Jeff), Lujie Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100954","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47950,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management","volume":"30 4","pages":"Article 100954"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1478409224000633/pdfft?md5=2476b720527f7ec2b625c636ad0175dd&pid=1-s2.0-S1478409224000633-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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