Published IP manuscripts (from 2020 to mid-2023)
| ID | Authors | Publication year/Vol./No. | IP title | Method | Key insights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | van Hoek, R. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 341–355 | Research opportunities for a more resilient post-COVID-19 supply chain - closing the gap between research findings and industry practice (van Hoek, 2020) | Virtual roundtables with supply chain executives, supplemented with interviews and publicly available datapoints | The COVID-19 crisis has caused major supply chain disruptions, and these can be traced back to basic supply chain risks that have previously been well identified in literature. The paper suggests a pathway for closing the gap between supply chain resilience research and efforts in industry to develop a more resilient supply chain |
| 2 | Li, F. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 6, pp. 809–817 | Leading digital transformation: three emerging approaches for managing the transition (Li, 2020) | Research with a group of global digital champions, including Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, Google, JD.com, Uber, VMWare and Slack | The research finds that at least three new approaches are emerging in leading organisations, which are (1) innovating by experimenting, (2) radical transformation via successive incremental changes and (3) dynamic sustainable advantages through an evolving portfolio of temporary advantages |
| 3 | Frei, R., Jack, L. and Brown, S. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 10, pp. 1613–1621 | Product returns: a growing problem for business, society and environment (Frei et al., 2020) | Multi-case study approach, whereby returns processes were mapped, vulnerabilities identified and a returns cost calculator was developed | Product returns are increasing, due to growing e-commerce. Many retailers and academics are oblivious to the nature and scale of this challenge. Interdisciplinary research is needed to develop supporting theory, and cross-functional teams are required to implement measures addressing economic, ecological and social sustainability issues |
| 4 | Handfield, R.B., Graham, G. and Burns, L. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 10, pp. 1649–1660 | Corona virus, tariffs, trade wars and supply chain evolutionary design (Handfield et al., 2020) | Interviews from case studies in the USA and the UK | Using the constructal law of physics this study provides guidance to future scholarship on global supply chain management. This study suggests how recent events will impact the design of future global supply chains |
| 5 | Seyedghorban, Z., Samson, D. and Tahernejad, H. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 11, pp. 1685–1693 | Digitalisation opportunities for the procurement function: pathways to maturity (Seyedghorban et al., 2020) | Case study of three firms. Interviews with managers, investigation of processes and documentary materials and in-depth follow-up discussions were conducted | The paper investigates how procurement can be reinvented, from being digitised to digitalised to digitally integrated, ultimately contributing in business terms beyond supply chain effectiveness but also to profit generation. This initial research phase led to mapping a model of digital maturity as well as identifying its underlying constructs |
| 6 | Chaudhuri, A., Naseraldin, H., Søberg, P.V., Kroll, E. and Librus, M. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 1, pp. 55–62 | Should hospitals invest in customised on-demand 3D printing for surgeries? (Chaudhuri et al., 2021) | The research design included interviews, workshops and field visits. Design science approach was used | Deploying customised on-demand 3DP can reduce surgical flow time and its variability while improving clinical outcomes. We outline multiple opportunities for research on supply chain design and performance assessment for surgical 3DP |
| 7 | Sarkis, J. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 1, pp. 63–73 | Supply chain sustainability: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic (Sarkis, 2021) | Published literature, personal research experience, insights from virtual open forums and practitioner interviews | Sustainability implications of pandemic events and responses bring short-term environmental sustainability gains, while long-term effects are still uncertain and require research. Sustainability and resilience are complements and jointly require investigation. Substantial open questions for investigation are identified |
| 8 | Finkenstadt, D.J. and Handfield, R.B. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 8, pp. 1302–1317 | Tuning value chains for better signals in the post-COVID era: vaccine supply chain concerns (Finkenstadt and Handfield, 2021) | The supply chain operating reference (SCOR) model is used as a framework, validated through the ongoing research and interviews in the field | The paper identifies the critical bottlenecks in the vaccine supply chain that are preventing a robust coronavirus disease (COVID) response. Improved supply chain signals can result in improved handling and distribution of vaccines in a post-COVID world. Recommendations for redesign of the vaccine supply chain as well as future research questions for scholars are presented |
| 9 | Schleper, M.C., Gold, S., Trautrims, A. and Baldock, D. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 193–205 | Pandemic-induced knowledge gaps in operations and supply chain management: COVID-19's impacts on retailing (Schleper et al., 2021) | Collaborative research based on more than five hours of interviews and several iterative paper writing steps between management scholars and Marks & Spencer's Head of Procurement - Logistics and Supply Chain | This paper highlights the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations and supply chain management (OSCM) in the retail industry, structured in upstream, internal and operational and downstream and customer perspectives. The paper concludes with a practice-infused research agenda, which aims to trigger relevant research about the current and potential future crises |
| 10 | van Hoek, R. and Loseby, D. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 10, pp. 1579–1592 | Beyond COVID-19 supply chain heroism, no dust settling yet - lessons learned at Rolls Royce about advancing risk management thinking (van Hoek and Loseby, 2021) | The co-author from Rolls Royce (RR) illustrates the risks experienced and risk management approaches taken in its manufacturing and supply chain operations | The impact of the pandemic is multi-faceted, global and experienced throughout the entire supply chain, across industries and over an extended timeline with multiple time horizons. In manufacturing operations, there have been major instances of supply chain heroism in the first year of the pandemic and there is a lot more work ahead. This paper aims to posit that at least four more theoretical advancements are needed |
| 11 | de Vries, H., Jahre, M., Selviaridis, K., van Oorschot, K.E. and Van Wassenhove, L.N. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 10, pp. 1569–1578 | Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management (de Vries et al., 2021) | Review of stakeholder reports from six European countries and the academic literature | The paper discusses three pathways of impactful research on drug shortages to which OSCM could contribute: (1) Developing an evidence-based system view of drug shortages; (2) Studying the comparative cost-effectiveness of key government interventions; (3) Bringing supply chain risk management into the government and economics perspectives and vice versa |
| 12 | Huang, Y., Eyers, D.R., Stevenson, M. and Thürer, M. | 2021, Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 1844–1861 | Breaking the mould: achieving high-volume production output with additive manufacturing (Huang et al., 2021) | Abductive reasoning applied to a case of using AM to compete with conventional production, winning a contract to supply 7,700,000 products | It is empirically shown that an AM shop can achieve economies of scale and compete with conventional manufacturing in high-volume, standardised production contexts. Comparing this case to existing theories and contemporary practices reveals new research directions and practical insights |
| 13 | Harland, C.M., Knight, L., Patrucco, A.S., Lynch, J., Telgen, J., Peters, E., Tatrai, T., Ferk, P. | 2021, Vol. 41, No. 13, pp. 178–189 | Practitioners' learning about healthcare supply chain management in the COVID-19 pandemic: a public procurement perspective (Harland et al., 2021) | Interviews with 58 senior public procurement practitioners in central and regional governments, NGOs and leaders of professional organisations from 23 countries | This study shows how increasing system preparedness for future emergencies depends both on developing critical capabilities and understanding how awareness and motivation influence the effective deployment of those capabilities |
| 14 | Wiengarten, F., Durach, C. F., Franke, H., Netland, T., Schmidt, F. | 2023, Vol. 43, No. 13, pp. 50–67 | Towards an updated understanding of the development of operational capabilities (Wiengarten et al., 2023) | Series of repeated in-depth interviews and discussions with the head of continuous improvement and the accountable manager of Lufthansa | Traditional models for operational capabilities building cannot explain (anymore) why some companies succeed and others fail in efficiently developing their capabilities. This paper offers a new model of operational capability building, the “Hub-and-Spoke Capability View,” which sees capabilities as a network structure that is context-specific |
| 15 | Bryde, D.J., Shahgholian, A., Joby, R., Taylor, S., Singh, R. | 2023, forthcoming | Managing relational risk in project operations (Bryde et al., 2023) | Panel of six experts in Project Management and a pilot survey of PM practitioners | This paper provides insights into how Project Relational Risk Management is practiced. Three pathways are identified: 1) how PM deliverables act as a Key Success Factor for effective PRRM, 2) how the duality of roles carried out by PM actors influences PRMM practices, 3) how companies innovate to enhance their PRMM capability |
| 16 | Srai J, Graham G., Van Hoek R., Joglekar N., Lorentz H. | 2023, forthcoming | Unhooking Supply Chains from Conflict Zones – Reconfiguration and Fragmentation Lessons from Ukraine–Russia (Srai et al., 2023) | Six key informant interviews, each with different supply chain interactions with the conflict zone (inbound, outbound and within) | Unlike previous work on “unhooking” and “rehooking” this pathway is the first to develop a supply network reconfiguration perspective. The paper also develops a framework that integrates institutional shifts in trade policy with supply network reconfiguration. As well as “unhooking” firms are having to consider that at some stage, they may need to rehook back into Russia given their huge sunk costs and assets they have invested in and left behind |
| 17 | Pullman, M., McCarthy, L., Mena, C. | 2023, forthcoming | Breaking bad – how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains? (Pullman et al., 2023) | Observations are based on evidence from industry practitioners, law enforcement experts, investigative journalism and academic sources | This pathway aims to provide an understanding of the breadth of illegal supply chain activity and the broad implications for society. Secondly, the authors propose some theoretical approaches to understand the structure and resilience of these chains and, more importantly, potential research in supply chain interdiction that could disrupt illegal activity |
| 18 | Legenvre, H., Hameri, A. | 2023, forthcoming | The emergence of data sharing along complex supply chains (Legenvre and Hameri, 2023) | 14 interviews with representatives from different automotive manufacturers and tier1 and tier2 suppliers, plus secondary data | The paper discusses data sharing along supply chains, showing how the automotive sector is working towards establishing a digital infrastructure for data sharing that could support a wide range of use cases. The article emphasises the importance of studying the governance of data ecosystems using new theoretical approaches and suggests three areas for future research on data ecosystems, including their governance, the learning dynamics that will drive their adoption and their relationship with broader system-level changes |
| 19 | Karaosman, H., Marshall, D. | 2023, Vol. 43, No.13, pp. 226-237 | Impact pathways: just transition in fashion operations and supply chain management (Karaosman and Marshall, 2023) | Multi-level field research approach to investigate multiple fashion supply chains | Fast-fashion giants work with industrial associations to create top-down governance tools, but they exclude workers, while the physiological and psychological effects on the workers are routinely ignored. These issues impede a just transition to a low-carbon fashion industry. This impact pathways paper proposes that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) can help to ensure that the transition in the fashion industry takes place in a just, inclusive and fair way |
| ID | Authors | Publication year/Vol./No. | IP title | Method | Key insights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | van Hoek, R. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 341–355 | Research opportunities for a more resilient post-COVID-19 supply chain - closing the gap between research findings and industry practice ( | Virtual roundtables with supply chain executives, supplemented with interviews and publicly available datapoints | The COVID-19 crisis has caused major supply chain disruptions, and these can be traced back to basic supply chain risks that have previously been well identified in literature. The paper suggests a pathway for closing the gap between supply chain resilience research and efforts in industry to develop a more resilient supply chain |
| 2 | Li, F. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 6, pp. 809–817 | Leading digital transformation: three emerging approaches for managing the transition ( | Research with a group of global digital champions, including Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, Google, | The research finds that at least three new approaches are emerging in leading organisations, which are (1) innovating by experimenting, (2) radical transformation via successive incremental changes and (3) dynamic sustainable advantages through an evolving portfolio of temporary advantages |
| 3 | Frei, R., Jack, L. and Brown, S. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 10, pp. 1613–1621 | Product returns: a growing problem for business, society and environment ( | Multi-case study approach, whereby returns processes were mapped, vulnerabilities identified and a returns cost calculator was developed | Product returns are increasing, due to growing e-commerce. Many retailers and academics are oblivious to the nature and scale of this challenge. Interdisciplinary research is needed to develop supporting theory, and cross-functional teams are required to implement measures addressing economic, ecological and social sustainability issues |
| 4 | Handfield, R.B., Graham, G. and Burns, L. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 10, pp. 1649–1660 | Corona virus, tariffs, trade wars and supply chain evolutionary design ( | Interviews from case studies in the USA and the UK | Using the constructal law of physics this study provides guidance to future scholarship on global supply chain management. This study suggests how recent events will impact the design of future global supply chains |
| 5 | Seyedghorban, Z., Samson, D. and Tahernejad, H. | 2020, Vol. 40 No. 11, pp. 1685–1693 | Digitalisation opportunities for the procurement function: pathways to maturity ( | Case study of three firms. Interviews with managers, investigation of processes and documentary materials and in-depth follow-up discussions were conducted | The paper investigates how procurement can be reinvented, from being digitised to digitalised to digitally integrated, ultimately contributing in business terms beyond supply chain effectiveness but also to profit generation. This initial research phase led to mapping a model of digital maturity as well as identifying its underlying constructs |
| 6 | Chaudhuri, A., Naseraldin, H., Søberg, P.V., Kroll, E. and Librus, M. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 1, pp. 55–62 | Should hospitals invest in customised on-demand 3D printing for surgeries? ( | The research design included interviews, workshops and field visits. Design science approach was used | Deploying customised on-demand 3DP can reduce surgical flow time and its variability while improving clinical outcomes. We outline multiple opportunities for research on supply chain design and performance assessment for surgical 3DP |
| 7 | Sarkis, J. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 1, pp. 63–73 | Supply chain sustainability: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic ( | Published literature, personal research experience, insights from virtual open forums and practitioner interviews | Sustainability implications of pandemic events and responses bring short-term environmental sustainability gains, while long-term effects are still uncertain and require research. Sustainability and resilience are complements and jointly require investigation. Substantial open questions for investigation are identified |
| 8 | Finkenstadt, D.J. and Handfield, R.B. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 8, pp. 1302–1317 | Tuning value chains for better signals in the post-COVID era: vaccine supply chain concerns ( | The supply chain operating reference (SCOR) model is used as a framework, validated through the ongoing research and interviews in the field | The paper identifies the critical bottlenecks in the vaccine supply chain that are preventing a robust coronavirus disease (COVID) response. Improved supply chain signals can result in improved handling and distribution of vaccines in a post-COVID world. Recommendations for redesign of the vaccine supply chain as well as future research questions for scholars are presented |
| 9 | Schleper, M.C., Gold, S., Trautrims, A. and Baldock, D. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 193–205 | Pandemic-induced knowledge gaps in operations and supply chain management: COVID-19's impacts on retailing ( | Collaborative research based on more than five hours of interviews and several iterative paper writing steps between management scholars and Marks & Spencer's Head of Procurement - Logistics and Supply Chain | This paper highlights the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations and supply chain management (OSCM) in the retail industry, structured in upstream, internal and operational and downstream and customer perspectives. The paper concludes with a practice-infused research agenda, which aims to trigger relevant research about the current and potential future crises |
| 10 | van Hoek, R. and Loseby, D. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 10, pp. 1579–1592 | Beyond COVID-19 supply chain heroism, no dust settling yet - lessons learned at Rolls Royce about advancing risk management thinking ( | The co-author from Rolls Royce (RR) illustrates the risks experienced and risk management approaches taken in its manufacturing and supply chain operations | The impact of the pandemic is multi-faceted, global and experienced throughout the entire supply chain, across industries and over an extended timeline with multiple time horizons. In manufacturing operations, there have been major instances of supply chain heroism in the first year of the pandemic and there is a lot more work ahead. This paper aims to posit that at least four more theoretical advancements are needed |
| 11 | de Vries, H., Jahre, M., Selviaridis, K., van Oorschot, K.E. and Van Wassenhove, L.N. | 2021, Vol. 41 No. 10, pp. 1569–1578 | Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management ( | Review of stakeholder reports from six European countries and the academic literature | The paper discusses three pathways of impactful research on drug shortages to which OSCM could contribute: (1) Developing an evidence-based system view of drug shortages; (2) Studying the comparative cost-effectiveness of key government interventions; (3) Bringing supply chain risk management into the government and economics perspectives and vice versa |
| 12 | Huang, Y., Eyers, D.R., Stevenson, M. and Thürer, M. | 2021, Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 1844–1861 | Breaking the mould: achieving high-volume production output with additive manufacturing ( | Abductive reasoning applied to a case of using AM to compete with conventional production, winning a contract to supply 7,700,000 products | It is empirically shown that an AM shop can achieve economies of scale and compete with conventional manufacturing in high-volume, standardised production contexts. Comparing this case to existing theories and contemporary practices reveals new research directions and practical insights |
| 13 | Harland, C.M., Knight, L., Patrucco, A.S., Lynch, J., Telgen, J., Peters, E., Tatrai, T., Ferk, P. | 2021, Vol. 41, No. 13, pp. 178–189 | Practitioners' learning about healthcare supply chain management in the COVID-19 pandemic: a public procurement perspective ( | Interviews with 58 senior public procurement practitioners in central and regional governments, NGOs and leaders of professional organisations from 23 countries | This study shows how increasing system preparedness for future emergencies depends both on developing critical capabilities and understanding how awareness and motivation influence the effective deployment of those capabilities |
| 14 | Wiengarten, F., Durach, C. F., Franke, H., Netland, T., Schmidt, F. | 2023, Vol. 43, No. 13, pp. 50–67 | Towards an updated understanding of the development of operational capabilities ( | Series of repeated in-depth interviews and discussions with the head of continuous improvement and the accountable manager of Lufthansa | Traditional models for operational capabilities building cannot explain (anymore) why some companies succeed and others fail in efficiently developing their capabilities. This paper offers a new model of operational capability building, the “Hub-and-Spoke Capability View,” which sees capabilities as a network structure that is context-specific |
| 15 | Bryde, D.J., Shahgholian, A., Joby, R., Taylor, S., Singh, R. | 2023, | Managing relational risk in project operations ( | Panel of six experts in Project Management and a pilot survey of PM practitioners | This paper provides insights into how Project Relational Risk Management is practiced. Three pathways are identified: 1) how PM deliverables act as a Key Success Factor for effective PRRM, 2) how the duality of roles carried out by PM actors influences PRMM practices, 3) how companies innovate to enhance their PRMM capability |
| 16 | Srai J, Graham G., Van Hoek R., Joglekar N., Lorentz H. | 2023, | Unhooking Supply Chains from Conflict Zones – Reconfiguration and Fragmentation Lessons from Ukraine–Russia ( | Six key informant interviews, each with different supply chain interactions with the conflict zone (inbound, outbound and within) | Unlike previous work on “unhooking” and “rehooking” this pathway is the first to develop a supply network reconfiguration perspective. The paper also develops a framework that integrates institutional shifts in trade policy with supply network reconfiguration. As well as “unhooking” firms are having to consider that at some stage, they may need to rehook back into Russia given their huge sunk costs and assets they have invested in and left behind |
| 17 | Pullman, M., McCarthy, L., Mena, C. | 2023, | Breaking bad – how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains? ( | Observations are based on evidence from industry practitioners, law enforcement experts, investigative journalism and academic sources | This pathway aims to provide an understanding of the breadth of illegal supply chain activity and the broad implications for society. Secondly, the authors propose some theoretical approaches to understand the structure and resilience of these chains and, more importantly, potential research in supply chain interdiction that could disrupt illegal activity |
| 18 | Legenvre, H., Hameri, A. | 2023, | The emergence of data sharing along complex supply chains ( | 14 interviews with representatives from different automotive manufacturers and tier1 and tier2 suppliers, plus secondary data | The paper discusses data sharing along supply chains, showing how the automotive sector is working towards establishing a digital infrastructure for data sharing that could support a wide range of use cases. The article emphasises the importance of studying the governance of data ecosystems using new theoretical approaches and suggests three areas for future research on data ecosystems, including their governance, the learning dynamics that will drive their adoption and their relationship with broader system-level changes |
| 19 | Karaosman, H., Marshall, D. | 2023, Vol. 43, No.13, pp. 226-237 | Impact pathways: just transition in fashion operations and supply chain management ( | Multi-level field research approach to investigate multiple fashion supply chains | Fast-fashion giants work with industrial associations to create top-down governance tools, but they exclude workers, while the physiological and psychological effects on the workers are routinely ignored. These issues impede a just transition to a low-carbon fashion industry. This impact pathways paper proposes that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) can help to ensure that the transition in the fashion industry takes place in a just, inclusive and fair way |
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