...Claudia Carrijo Ravaglia; Annibal Scavarda; Ana Dias; Haydee Silveira Purpose The objective of this paper is to investigate how Industry 4.0 technologies can contribute to solve the problems of managing materials and medicines in the hospital supply chain, identifying opportunities...

... in the buyer–supplier dyad. Originality/value This study provides important insights into how supplier firms can facilitate buyer innovation as and how relational factors suggested by social embeddedness theory act to strengthen this effect. Through a theoretical-based empirical examination of supply chain...