The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 30 Issue 4

Toward a conceptualization of humanitarian service providers

Diego Vega, Christine Roussat

Service development and outsourcing are growing trends in humanitarian logistics (HL). Humanitarian organizations (HOs) have developed specialized units to perform logistics…

Disentangling cross-border interactions

Andrew Grainger, Cristiano Morini

The purpose of this paper is to disentangle the interactions between logistics operators and government stakeholders in cross-border logistics operations with a specific focus on…

The effect of green shipping practices on multinational companies’ loyalty in Malaysia

Erwind Jozef, Kavigtha Mohan Kumar, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Behzad Foroughi

The globalization of market and production activities with unequal distribution of market demand and resources has accelerated the demand for shipping services. Public concerns…

Stock keeping unit rationalization: a cross-functional, cross-firm perspective

Matias G. Enz, Matthew A. Schwieterman, Douglas M. Lambert

Although managers have struggled with SKU proliferation for decades, research has provided inconsistent guidance, and the cross-functional and cross-firm aspects of the problem…

Returns management employee development: antecedents and outcomes

Haozhe Chen, Stefan E. Genchev, Geoff Willis, Benjamin Griffis

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the antecedents and impacts of a largely overlooked concept, employee development, within the challenging area of returns…

An evaluation of Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar citations in operations management

Karen Chapman, Alexander E. Ellinger

Ongoing deliberation about how research productivity should be measured is exacerbated by extensive disparity between the number of citations for scholarly works reported by…

Managerial competencies of 3PL providers: A comparative analysis of Indonesian firms and multinational companies

Bayu Khresna Sangka, Shams Rahman, Aswini Yadlapalli, Ferry Jie

The purpose of this paper is to identify and prioritise competencies of Indonesian third-party logistics (3PL) managers from the perspective of multinational corporations (MNCs…

Making dairy supply chains robust against corruption risk: a systemic exploratory study

Xiaojing Liu, Tiru Arthanari, Yangyan Shi

To improve robustness of a dairy supply chain (SC) against corruption, the purpose of this paper is to propose a systemic model of a corruption impacted dairy SC, exposing…

Constrained choice in supply chain relationships: the effects of regulatory institutions

Donna F. Davis, Beth Davis-Sramek, Susan L. Golicic, Teresa M. McCarthy-Byrne

Utilizing a top-down approach of middle-range theorizing (MRT), the purpose of this paper is to integrate relational exchange with institutional theory to examine how companies…