Guest editorial
Article Type: Guest editorial From: International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Volume 38, Issue 7
About the Guest Editor
Susan L. GolicicAssistant Professor in the Department of Management at Colorado State University. She received her PhD in Logistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research focuses on managing relationships and sustainability in the supply chain. She has several years of experience in logistics in addition to project management and environmental engineering. She has consulted with numerous firms on supply chain management and forecasting, presented at many academic and practitioner conferences and has published in Journal of Business Logistics,International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management,Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Industrial Marketing Management,Transportation Journal, and Supply Chain Management Review.
This issue of International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM) contains two manuscripts from the third annual Supply Chain Management & Industrial Distribution Symposium(SCMID http://cba.ua.edu/scmid/)held at the Society of Marketing Advances conference. The symposium features invited presentations by executives and scholars including competitive paper presentations by researchers in conjunction with the Supply Chain Management,Logistics and Marketing Channels track of the Society of Marketing Advances Annual Conference. The SCMID provides an unparalleled opportunity for leading supply chain and marketing distribution scholars and senior executives from around the globe to interact and discuss current and emerging trends and challenges through a relaxed, open and low cost format.
To stimulate greater dialog between academic and industry leaders and among various academic streams of research related to distribution (e.g. business to business marketing, supply chain management, marketing channels, logistics operations, and industrial sales distribution), the symposium annually forwards two to five award-winning peer-reviewed research papers for publication in IJPDLM. As the symposium grows each year, we hope to continue to achieve our objective of fostering excellence in research and practice in the field of supply chain management and industrial distribution.
This year’s issue includes two exploratory research manuscripts that address pertinent areas of study in supply chain management – reverse logistics and interfirm relationships. The “Donald J. Bowersox Best Logistics and Supply Chain” Manuscript examines the impact of reverse logistics disposition strategies on performance. Lauren Skinner, Paul Bryant and Glenn Richey present survey results testing the influence of destruction,recycling, refurbishing, remanufacturing and repackaging on financial performance and service quality. The authors also explore the affect of committing resources to reverse logistics, regardless of the specific strategy. The study finds that destruction improves operational responsiveness but recycling worsens responsiveness. Resource commitment moderates the positive impact of destruction and recycling on performance and refurbishing and remanufacturing on responsiveness.
The “Louis Stern and Adel El Ansary Best Marketing Channels”Manuscript explores relational aspects of time-based competition. Rod Thomas presents a grounded theory study on the phenomenon of time pressure and its existence in supply chain relationships. Depth interviews with supply chain managers reveal that both buyers and sellers impose time pressure on other members of a supply chain and that this can adversely affect key elements of a relationship. Time pressure is therefore viewed as a relational cost and may hinder pursuit of relational advantage in the supply chain.
All of the conference organizers and the editorial staff at IJPDLMhope you enjoy these exploratory works and hope they stimulate new research initiatives. Please join us annually at SCMID to engage both professionally and socially with other scholars and industry executives on current and important topics in supply chain management and industrial distribution.
The final two articles in this issue were submitted directly to the journal and were not part of the SCMID Conference.
Susan L. GolicicGuest Editor
