... of governance, which act as proactive information sharing behaviors in weakening the impact of SCD asymmetry. Design/methodology/approach The authors collect dyadic survey data from 412 matched SCF enterprises and core companies in China and analyzed them using multiple regression models. Findings...

...Christopher Pesterfield Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the form vertical supply chain governance has taken in response to the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Specifically, this study asks whether relational governance has developed to counteract the shortcomings of using contractual...

...Larissa Statsenko; Kirstin Scholten; Mark Stevenson Purpose Diversity – or having a range of different options – is an important part of being resilient. Yet research has not considered how diversity in terms of the governance relationship types that exist within a supply base or across a supply...

...Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury; Mesbahuddin Chowdhury; Eijaz Ahmed Khan; Shahriar Sajib Purpose This study aims to investigate the conditional direct and indirect effects of supply chain relational capital (RC) on supply chain sustainability via sustainability governance. Design/methodology/approach...

...Mohammad Tarikul Islam; Doren Chadee; Michael Jay Polonsky Purpose This study aims to integrate social capital theory and the knowledge-based view of firms to develop and test a theoretical framework of the mechanisms that explain the influence of relational governance (RG) on lead-time...

... in the context of offshore outsourcing SMEs. To test the hypotheses, the authors collected and analysed survey data from 200 European manufacturing SMEs that have existing offshore supplier relationships. Findings The results suggest that both complex contracts and relational trust as governance structures...

...Tatiane Pellin Cislaghi; Douglas Wegner; Luciana Marques Vieira Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the use of governance mechanisms in buyer-supplier relationships in the supply chain (SC) are related to the maturity of relationships and the generation of relational rents...

... such certifications, it has not closely examined the strategic motivations associated with their adoption. This paper aims to investigate an environmentally-friendly certification, VIVA, examining its role as an alternative form of supply chain governance. The aim is to investigate the drivers affecting the adoption...

... and discusses the findings. Finally, Section 6 provides the policy and managerial implications, limitations, directions for further research, contributions and concluding remarks. Contract arrangements, sometimes called “governance structures,” refer to the organization of transactions within supply...

... of a niche food commodity. Research limitations/implications The findings have implications in terms of supply chain design perspectives. In fact, while an approach, which would consider only a transactional or governance perspective would have tackled the problems of misalignment – for example, between...

...Jas Kalra; Michael Lewis; Jens K. Roehrich Purpose This paper aims to investigate governance in service triads, specifically studying significant steering and connecting coordination failures, to reveal typically hidden characteristics and consequences. Design/methodology/approach This study...

...Artur Swierczek Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether brokered network governance, run by the manufacturer, affects relational embeddedness and thus contributes to yielding the Coleman rent in the triadic supply chains. Design/methodology/approach Building upon...

...Melissa van der Merwe; Johann F. Kirsten; Jacques H. Trienekens Purpose This paper aims to make an empirical contribution by investigating the enforcement mechanisms and governance structures required to protect and govern a regional food product when public certification fails. As one...

...Larissa Statsenko; Alex Gorod; Vernon Ireland Purpose This paper aims to propose an empirically grounded governance framework based on complex adaptive systems (CAS) principles to facilitate formation of well-connected regional supply chains that foster economic development, adaptability...

... factors, the environmental dynamism and the stakeholder pressure on sustainability. Design/methodology/approach Four configurations of governance mechanisms are identified according to the different levels of implementing supplier assessment and supplier collaboration. The performances of the four...

...Pietro Cunha Dolci; Antonio Carlos Gastaud Maçada; Ely Laureano Paiva Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop models and analyse the influence of supply chain governance (SCG) and its conceptions (contractual, relational and transactional) on supply chain performance (SCP). Design...

...-GMO standards, with the intention of avoiding the presence of GMOs in their products. This paper aims to understand how the implementation of these new retailer-driven standards affects governance structures along the supply chain and the determinants of such change focusing on transaction cost...

...Richard Wilding; Beverly Wagner; Colin Pilbeam; Gabriela Alvarez; Hugh Wilson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish what is known regarding how supply network governance leads to network outcomes, what mechanisms underlie this relationship, and how context impacts it. Design...

...Gabriela Alvarez; Colin Pilbeam; Richard Wilding Purpose Within the context of a sustainable supply chain, the purpose of this paper is to report on empirical longitudinal research on supply chain network evolution and dynamics of governance in a multi‐stakeholder supply chain sustainability...

...Miguel Hernández‐Espallardo; Augusto Rodríguez‐Orejuela; Manuel Sánchez‐Pérez Purpose Inter‐firm knowledge sharing and learning constitute one of the main avenues to improve supply chains' performance in today's business environment. This paper aims to examine how effective different governance...