...Bin Wang; Changping Zhao; Albert Wang; Yong Wu; Niu Yu Purpose The explosive growth of China’s time-critical express delivery ( TCED ) industry highlights both the potential and the pitfalls of the digital platform economy. While delivering unprecedented convenience, its profit-driven model has...

...Xu Kang Purpose This paper aims to examine how multinational corporations (MNCs) organise labour governance and manage labour-rights risks in global supply chains when operating in politically constrained host-country labour regimes. Focusing on China, it analyses how a German automotive MNC...

...-use rights only Resilience Supply chain disruption Empirical study China E-commerce RQ1. What is the impact of a supplier’s position in the extended supply network on supply chain resilience in e-commerce supply chains? Existing empirical evidence indicates...

... by positioning SCI_Q as a mediator in the SCQL-quality performance relationship, doing a deep dive into a mechanism through which SCQL influences quality performance. This research is set in the context of manufacturing in China, which plays an important role in SCs as the “factory to the world...

... performance China India Thailand Digitalization has touched almost every aspect of humankind across the globe, greatly impacting supply chain processes. The primary focus of firms is to retain and fortify their core proficiencies in a competitive market. In the area of the supply chain, which spans...

... by an examination of the impact of supply chain risks on firm performance and supply chain performance in the context of a Chinese supply chain. China is among 25 economies posing “extreme” supply chain risks (CFO Innovation Asia, 2016), so it provides a suitable context to study supply chain disruptions...

... to the Chinese government’s policy of encouraging international investment since the 1990s: IJVs occupy 90 percent of the automotive industry in China (Richards and Yang, 2007 ; Holweg et al., 2008). Chinese manufacturers have engaged extensively with Germany, the United States, Japan, Korea, France...

...Muhammad Farooque; Abraham Zhang; Yanping Liu Purpose This paper aims to identify and systematically analyze the causal-effect relationships among barriers to circular food supply chains in China. Design/methodology/approach Grounded in multiple organizational theories, this paper develops...

... insights in better understanding the factors that can affect the impact of supply and manufacturing risk management upon business performance in those contexts, such as China, where the institutional aspect presents specific features. A plethora of studies have uncovered differences in the cultural...

...@scut.edu.cn 28 10 2016 16 03 2017 09 06 2017 14 06 2017 15 06 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only China Risk management Supply chain coordination Supply quality management Agriculture Logistics...

...Bin Shen; Xuemei Ding; Lizhu Chen; Hau Ling Chan Purpose This paper aims to discuss the low carbon supply chain practices in China’s textile industry. To curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Chinese government has launched restrict regulatory system and imposed the energy consumption constraint...

... to construct a sequential process model for introducing and implementing these relational practices. Empirical data from three manufacturing organizations in China are utilized to validate the model. Findings Initial results provide a sequence of relational practices for guiding those organizations...

... Group Publishing Limited 2016 China Service supply chain Reverse logistics Consumer motivation Neutralization Value-belief-norm Economic performance in the form of profit and expansion is an important priority for businesses. However, economic growth has also substantially burdened...

...Fu Jia; Ruihong Gao; Richard Lamming; Richard Wilding Purpose – This paper aims to identify problems caused by cultural differences between Japan and China that face supply chain managers by applying Japanese-style supply management practices within supply networks in China and present solutions...

... of integrated green supply chain management (iGSCM) and multiple dimensions of operational performance. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on survey data collected from 126 automotive manufacturers in China. The relationships between theoretical constructs are analysed using structural...

..., as they may be more meaningful in China. Practical implications – The findings clarify the alignment of SCI with competitive strategies for practitioners, so that they can allocate their limited resources to build various SCI capabilities based on their strategic choices. Originality/value...

...Ting Wu; Elizabeth M. Daniel; Matt Hinton; Paul Quintas Purpose This study aims to demonstrate empirically the varied mechanisms through which supply chain practices of indigenous Chinese companies are influenced by foreign‐owned multinational companies (MNCs) operating within China. It also...

...Baofeng Huo Purpose This paper aims to simultaneously examine the impact of three types of supply chain integration (SCI) on three types of company performance from the perspective of organizational capability. Design/methodology/approach Using data collected from 617 companies in China...

...Abraham Zhang; George Q. Huang Purpose Rising production costs in coastal China have caused the popularity of the “China plus one” strategy, and the hike in oil prices favors near‐shore outsourcing to reduce transportation costs. Taking into consideration supply chain strategy, this paper aims...

...Assistant; Federica Cucchiella; Lenny Koh; Malin Song; Shuhong Wang; Zhanhao Jiang; Jie Yang; Yumei Wang Purpose With the function of reconstructing and promoting traditional industries in China, logistic service industry (LSI) still consumes a great deal of energy. The purpose of this paper...