The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 34 Issue 5

Acting in concert leads to success: how to implement Industry 4.0 effectively across companies

Johannes W. Veile

The purpose of the study is to shed light on how to implement Industry 4.0 effectively across companies in buyer–supplier relationships.

Tie strength, tie brokerage and buyer–supplier co-exploration: a novelty–action trade-off

Qiyuan Zhang, Mengyang Wang, Ziyu Zhao

In the pursuit of co-exploration, the strength and brokerage dimensions of dyadic ties create a novelty–action trade-off: tie strength facilitates coordination but constraints…

The impact of supply chain relationship configurations on supplier performance: investigating buyer–supplier relations in the aerospace industry

Ulrich Schmelzle, Prabhjot S. Mukandwal

A supplier may sell not only to one buyer (sole relationship configuration) but also to the buyers competitors (shared relationship configuration) for a specific product…

Developing relational embeddedness of logistics service provider to enhance supply chain performance in transitive triads

Artur Swierczek

The study seeks to explore the effect of socialization mechanisms on relational embeddedness of logistics service providers (LSP), and relational performance of dyads, and finally…

Net-zero economy research in the field of supply chain management: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

Ruchi Mishra, Rajesh Singh, Kannan Govindan

The purpose of this study is to systematically review the state-of-art literature on the net-zero economy in the field of supply chain management.

Exploring trade-offs between basic and advanced sustainable supply chain practices among consumer electronics: a social media analytics approach

Shima Mirzaei, Sajjad Shokouhyar, Sina Shokoohyar

This study explores the sustainable supply chain trade-offs in the electronics industry.

Supply chain transparency: theoretical perspectives for future research

Tyler R. Morgan, Colin B. Gabler, Pamela S. Manhart

This paper lays the groundwork for future research in supply chain transparency in two ways. First, the authors delineate the construct and explore how it is shifting the business…

From real-time visibility to operational benefits – tensions on unfinished paths

Slawomir Wycislak

Visibility is the need of the hour for each organization involved in the supply chain, and scholars have made few previous efforts to understand patterns driving visibility in…

Putting head-worn displays to use for order picking: a most-similar comparative case study

Michiel Bal, Lander Vermeerbergen, Jos Benders

This paper aims to identify why warehouses do or do not succeed in putting to use digital technologies for order picking.

Towards a contingency theoretic perspective on technology pre-adoption in supply chain management

Stefan Selensky

Emerging technologies and the concept of Industry 4.0 are on the rise. Thus, available solutions for SCM get more complex and dynamic. Technology adoption is crucial for…