... Disasters are growing in frequency and scale, unmasking the systemic vulnerabilities of modern supply chains and highlighting the need to understand how to respond to such events. In the context of an extreme event such as the COVID-19 pandemic, this research focuses on how networks of organizations...

...Mehrnoush Sarafan; Benn Lawson; Jens K. Roehrich; Brian Squire Purpose Project-based supply networks are an emerging form of organizing used to meet a buying organization's operational and innovation goals. Knowledge sharing among suppliers in the network plays a key role in successful project...

...Kate McLoughlin; Joanne Meehan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how, and by whom, institutional logics are determined in the action of sustainable organisation. The authors analyse a supply chain network structure to understand how multiple stakeholders' perceptions...

... demographically diverse is the field and its communities? The study applies social network analysis (SNA) to web-based EAB data for 38 journals listed under operations management (OM) in the 2010 ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide. The members of EABs of the 38 journals are divided into seven...

... an extended discussion of the notion of indirect capabilities. It potentially provides the basis for an operations and supply strategy more attuned to the demands of shifting inter-organizational networks. In this section, we outline some important aspects of complexity. First, we review some of its...

...Christer Karlsson Companies organize in a way that involves more and more activities that are external to the traditional organizational boundaries and as a consequence managing operations contains more and more issues and actions dealing with external networks. Hence new challenges face managing...

...C.M. Harland; L.A. Knight This paper presents an argument that it is possible for an organisation to manage networks, but understanding this involves consideration of what is meant by “managing”. Based on prior research and data from a major longitudinal action research study in the health sector...

...Richard Lamming; Thomas Johnsen; Jurong Zheng; Christine Harland The articulation of supply networks, as an extension of supply chains, seeks to accommodate and explain the commercial complexity associated with the creation and delivery of goods and services from the source of raw materials...

...Guido Nassimbeni Notwithstanding the extensive body of literature, there is still confusion surrounding the concept of “network” since it encompasses a variety of inter‐organisational relationships. By adopting the Mintzberg’s approach on organisational structures and co‐ordination mechnisms...

... are consistent with the strengths inherent in the firm’s logistics choices. © MCB UP Limited 1998 International trade Logistics Manufacturing Networks Organizational structure Strategy The competitive environment for manufacturing firms has changed drastically in the past ten to 15 years...

...Steve New; Ioannis Mitropoulos In marketing and operations literature, there is an emerging consensus that the inter‐firm network is of strategic significance. Challenges the assumption that supply networks are always “out there” waiting to be investigated. Rather than treat networks as objective...