Review
Business
Chen Qian, Stefan Seuring, Ralf Wagner
Summary: This paper reviews recent literature on inter-firm relationship quality (RQ) in supply chain settings. A content analysis approach was used to analyze 100 English-language scientific publications published from 2006 to 2015. The findings map antecedents, dimensions, and consequences of buyer-seller RQ, with a focus on performance and behavioral intentions of collaborating partners. Insights into the use of relevant constructs in SCs and research gaps were uncovered.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING
(2021)
Article
Business
Assadej Vanichchinchai
Summary: The study shows that customer relationship has significant positive direct effects on all aspects of supply performance. While supplier relationship has a significant positive direct effect on customer relationship, it does not have significant positive effects on supply performance. However, supplier relationship has significant positive total effects and indirect effects on all aspects of supply performance through customer relationship.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING
(2021)
Article
Management
Nayara Louise Carvalho, Juliana Veiga Mendes, Erica Kushihara Akim, Ricardo Coser Mergulhao, Jose Geraldo Vidal Vieira
Summary: The study finds that LSPs are the strongest advocates for collaboration over time, while shippers have the weakest support for collaboration and prioritize relationships of one to three years. Carriers tend to develop short-term relationships and actively participate in meetings and technical visits because they strongly support strategic and interpersonal collaboration.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Valentina Di Pasquale, Raffaele Iannone, Maria Elena Nenni, Stefano Riemma
Summary: Existing models for order allocation mainly consider environmental attributes and neglect economic and social attributes. Therefore, this paper proposes a model for green order allocation in a high operational variability supply chain, which considers uncertainty, limited capacity, minimum levels, and scores of suppliers, as well as emissions related to production, ordering, maintenance, and transport. The validation of the model shows that it achieves lower costs and TBL impacts compared to models that only consider TBL scores in supplier selection, thus helping firms increase sustainability throughout the supply chain.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Management
Zhigang Shou, Yu Gong, Qiyuan Zhang
Summary: This study investigates the moderating role of supply chain boundary spanners' guanxi on the dependence-opportunism relationship. The findings suggest that guanxi weakens the impact of buyer dependence on supplier opportunism and mitigates the effect of supplier dependence. However, unfairness perception and legal inefficiency can attenuate or amplify the value of guanxi in managing dependence and opportunism.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Management
Liwen Wang, Jason Lu Jin, Kevin Zheng Zhou
Summary: This study explores the impact of technological capabilities and institutional factors on supply chain process innovation in China. It finds that technological capability strength has a negative effect, while technological capability asymmetry promotes such innovation. Moreover, the study examines the moderating role of formal and informal institutional factors. Empirical analyses provide strong support for the hypotheses, indicating important implications for the supply chain innovation collaboration literature and managerial practice.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Donghyuk Jo, Chulhwan Kwon
Summary: This study examines the performance of green supply chain management in Korean manufacturing-based SMEs and finds that environmental collaboration plays an important role in driving green innovation capacity, which in turn positively affects financial performance through environmental performance.
Article
Business
Simone Guercini, Andrea Runfola
Summary: This paper focuses on the issue of business model change in industrial markets, particularly in relation to fast-fashion supply chains. Through an empirical study on semi-finished textile suppliers, it identifies key drivers of change in the supplier's business models and discusses the paradoxes in their adaptation to fast fashion clients. The study sheds light on the need for suppliers to adapt and match the business models of their clients, proposing two potential interpretations of this adaptation.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Purushottam L. Meena, Gopal Kumar, M. Ramkumar
Summary: The success of supply chain sustainability relies on the collaborative relationship between a firm and its supply chain partners, with relationship conditions playing a crucial role in achieving greater sustainability. This study examines the linkages between innovation, joint planning and resource sharing (i.e., collaboration) and three dimensions of sustainability (i.e., supply chain, environmental, and social performance), and investigates if these linkages are contingent on relationship conditions. The findings reveal that the difficulty in partner selection significantly moderates the relationship between perceived interdependency and collaboration and innovation. The influence of opportunistic behavior, conflicting interests, and power asymmetry as moderators in the relationships between innovation/collaboration and sustainability dimensions is limited. This paper contributes to the literature on planning and controlling supply chain sustainability by considering negative relationship conditions in an emerging economy context and providing guidance for similar economies to undertake these efforts.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Business
Stephanie M. Mangus, Dora E. Bock, Judith Anne Garretson Folse, Eli Jones
Summary: This study examines the impact of reciprocity on salespeople in B2B exchanges and their emotional experiences of gratitude and indebtedness. The findings demonstrate the differences in relationship characteristics associated with these emotions and their effects on relationship outcomes, providing theoretical and managerial implications and suggestions for future research.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bingyu Niu, Ye Li, Xianfeng Ding, Zhao Fan, Bingping Zhou, Xiaorong Cheng
Summary: Bribery, an illegal conspiracy between two transactional parties, has a wide range of destructive effects on society. This study investigates the role of Guanxi (interpersonal relationships) in influencing individuals, particularly government officials, in accepting bribes. The findings reveal that both direct and indirect Guanxi contribute to individuals' acceptance of bribes, but the mechanisms behind them differ. Direct Guanxi encourages acceptance of bribes due to trust, responsibility, and obligation, while indirect Guanxi is driven solely by trust. This study provides new insights into the lubricant role of relationships in corruption, expanding the understanding of bribery and offering recommendations to combat corruption.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Business
Saeed Najafi-Tavani, Hossein Sharifi, Peter Naude, Elmira Parvizi-Omran
Summary: This study examines the impact of FSCM practices on supply risk, finding that different practices should be implemented based on the quality of the buyer-supplier relationship and the level of buyer relative power to mitigate supply risk. The empirical findings have important implications for both theory and practice.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Xuesong Bai, Arnaldo Coelho, Beatriz Lopes Cancela
Summary: This article examines the influence of green strategic alliances (GSA) on green radical and incremental innovation through green supply chain integration (GSCI). A theoretical model is proposed and evaluated using structural equation modeling. The findings show that GSA have a positive impact on GSCI, thereby affecting both green radical and incremental innovation. The study also explores the role of strategic alliances in corporate green innovation and how alliance members can benefit from superior green innovation through shared value creation, utilizing the frameworks of value creation and stakeholder theory.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhiqing Dong, Yusong Tan, Linhui Wang, Jiali Zheng, Shengming Hu
Summary: The study indicates that GSCM benefits CTI, especially with a stronger effect seen in backward GSCM. Light-polluting and capital-intensive industries are more incentivized to adopt GSCM, while domestic companies outperform foreign companies in this regard.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Business
Ralph Kauffman, Lucille Pointer
Summary: The widespread adoption of digital technology in business-to-business markets accelerates the development speed of buyer-seller relationships, enhances the flexibility of decision-making processes, and improves important attributes of inter-firm relationships such as organizational commitment, organizational embeddedness, trust, and value creation.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING
(2022)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Eric W. K. See-To, Eric W. T. Ngai
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Vincent J. Shea, Kevin E. Dow, Alain Yee-Loong Chong, Eric W. T. Ngai
INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS
(2019)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
E. W. T. Ngai, Chuck C. H. Law, Carlos W. H. Lo, J. K. L. Poon, Shanshan Peng
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Pengkun Wu, Eric W. T. Ngai, Yuanyuan Wu
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
(2018)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Eric W. K. See-To, Eric W. T. Ngai
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
(2019)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Industrial
Angappa Gunasekaran, Nachiappan Subramanian, Wai Ting Eric Ngai
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2019)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Industrial
Angappa Gunasekaran, Rameshwar Dubey, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Thanos Papadopoulos, Benjamin T. Hazen, Eric W. T. Ngai
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Economics
Peng-hui Lyu, Eric W. T. Ngai, Pei-yi Wu
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Ariel K. H. Lui, Chris K. Y. Lo, Eric W. T. Ngai
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2019)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Junyi Chai, Eric W. T. Ngai
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
(2020)
Review
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yuanyuan Wu, Eric W. T. Ngai, Pengkun Wu, Chong Wu
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
(2020)
Review
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Junyi Chai, Eric W. T. Ngai
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2020)
Article
Management
H. L. Yiu, Eric W. T. Ngai, Chun Fong Lei
Review
Business
David T. W. Wong, Eric W. T. Ngai
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2019)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Fei Liu, Eric Ngai, Xiaofeng Ju
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2019)
