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Table 9

The five most cited articles

#	Article	Citations	Research question	Findings	Research gaps
1	Zsidisin, Ellram, Carter, & Cavinato (2004)	337	Explore, analyze, and derive common themes in supply risk assessment techniques	Purchasing organizations can assess supply risk with techniques that focus on resolving supplier quality issues, improving supplier processes, and reducing the likelihood of supply disruptions. These techniques make it easier for purchasing organizations to obtain information to verify the supplier's behavior, promoting the congruence of goals between the purchasing and sales companies and reducing the uncertainty of the result associated with internal supply	Longitudinal research can be conducted to determine whether sourcing risk assessment and proactive sourcing management have a significant effect on organizational performance. This type of research would analyze when and what steps organizations take when a supply risk is discovered (a priori) and collect this data over time to gain insights into how the supply risk is best addressed
2	Wilhelm et al. (2016)	200	Distinguish the conditions under which the first-tier supplier acts as an agent to fulfill the sustainability requirements of the leading company and implement them in its suppliers' operations	Several contingency factors influence the coupling of the secondary agency role of the first-level provider. These factors include the availability of resources in the top-tier supplier company, the lead company's focus on the triple bottom line (environmental or social) dimension, the lead company's energy use, and the lead company's internal alignment of sustainability and the role of purchase	Large-scale research investigating the behavioral dimension at the multilayer level would be helpful. Another opportunity is the investigation of dual agencies in exercises that represent the structure of multi-layered supply chains that manipulate motivation
3	Li, Fan, Lee, & Cheng (2015)	116	Identify supplier opportunism as a key construct in understanding retailer-supplier category management relationships and develop a model of important antecedents and consequences of focal supplier opportunism at the category level	The risk information sharing and risk sharing mechanism improve financial performance, and the effectiveness of the former is strengthened by the duration of the relationship and the trust of the supplier, while the latter is strengthened by a shared understanding of supply chain risk management (SCRM)	Examine the effectiveness of risk identification, forecasting, and warning. There may be other collaborative relationship characteristics (e.g. relationship investment and interdependence) that can moderate the effectiveness of joint SCRM practices. Future research can still collect longitudinal data to test causal relationships more rigorously or employ other relevant theories (such as transaction cost theory and resource-based view) to identify different joint practices and their corresponding moderating factors
4	Morgan et al. (2007)	110	Identify supplier opportunism as a key construct in understanding retailer-supplier category management relationships and develop a model of important antecedents and consequences of focal supplier opportunism at the category level	In the supply chain management scenario where a buyer's relationship with a focal supplier allows the supplier to directly influence the buyer's relationships with competing suppliers who continue to supply the buyer with products. In such situations, the opportunistic behavior of a focal supplier provokes responses from other suppliers, in addition to having a direct negative impact on the retailer's performance	Identify: The important components of supplier monitoring systems that cover multiple supply chain participants simultaneously; the degree of customization to individual suppliers required in monitoring systems to make them an effective safeguard against opportunism; monitoring the costs of multiple suppliers in a supply chain simultaneously. Furthermore, to explore the impact of retailers' relationships with one supplier on their relationships with other suppliers
5	Fayezi et al. (2012)	91	How can agency theory be used to inform our understanding of the dynamics around supply chain behaviors and relationships?	Despite the prevailing descriptive and predictive qualities of agency theory, its application to the discipline of SCM is lacking. Agency theory provides valuable insights for relationship engineering in supply chains where social, political, legal, and behavioral dynamics dominate	Study issues such as: information sharing, risk/reward sharing, and establishing/maintaining inter-organizational relationships (as opposed to the dyadic investigations prevalent in the literature). Also, investigate the assumptions underlying agency relationships in supply chains

#	Article	Citations	Research question	Findings	Research gaps
1	Zsidisin, Ellram, Carter, & Cavinato (2004)	337	Explore, analyze, and derive common themes in supply risk assessment techniques	Purchasing organizations can assess supply risk with techniques that focus on resolving supplier quality issues, improving supplier processes, and reducing the likelihood of supply disruptions. These techniques make it easier for purchasing organizations to obtain information to verify the supplier's behavior, promoting the congruence of goals between the purchasing and sales companies and reducing the uncertainty of the result associated with internal supply	Longitudinal research can be conducted to determine whether sourcing risk assessment and proactive sourcing management have a significant effect on organizational performance. This type of research would analyze when and what steps organizations take when a supply risk is discovered (a priori) and collect this data over time to gain insights into how the supply risk is best addressed
2	Wilhelm et al. (2016)	200	Distinguish the conditions under which the first-tier supplier acts as an agent to fulfill the sustainability requirements of the leading company and implement them in its suppliers' operations	Several contingency factors influence the coupling of the secondary agency role of the first-level provider. These factors include the availability of resources in the top-tier supplier company, the lead company's focus on the triple bottom line (environmental or social) dimension, the lead company's energy use, and the lead company's internal alignment of sustainability and the role of purchase	Large-scale research investigating the behavioral dimension at the multilayer level would be helpful. Another opportunity is the investigation of dual agencies in exercises that represent the structure of multi-layered supply chains that manipulate motivation
3	Li, Fan, Lee, & Cheng (2015)	116	Identify supplier opportunism as a key construct in understanding retailer-supplier category management relationships and develop a model of important antecedents and consequences of focal supplier opportunism at the category level	The risk information sharing and risk sharing mechanism improve financial performance, and the effectiveness of the former is strengthened by the duration of the relationship and the trust of the supplier, while the latter is strengthened by a shared understanding of supply chain risk management (SCRM)	Examine the effectiveness of risk identification, forecasting, and warning. There may be other collaborative relationship characteristics (e.g. relationship investment and interdependence) that can moderate the effectiveness of joint SCRM practices. Future research can still collect longitudinal data to test causal relationships more rigorously or employ other relevant theories (such as transaction cost theory and resource-based view) to identify different joint practices and their corresponding moderating factors
4	Morgan et al. (2007)	110	Identify supplier opportunism as a key construct in understanding retailer-supplier category management relationships and develop a model of important antecedents and consequences of focal supplier opportunism at the category level	In the supply chain management scenario where a buyer's relationship with a focal supplier allows the supplier to directly influence the buyer's relationships with competing suppliers who continue to supply the buyer with products. In such situations, the opportunistic behavior of a focal supplier provokes responses from other suppliers, in addition to having a direct negative impact on the retailer's performance	Identify: The important components of supplier monitoring systems that cover multiple supply chain participants simultaneously; the degree of customization to individual suppliers required in monitoring systems to make them an effective safeguard against opportunism; monitoring the costs of multiple suppliers in a supply chain simultaneously. Furthermore, to explore the impact of retailers' relationships with one supplier on their relationships with other suppliers
5	Fayezi et al. (2012)	91	How can agency theory be used to inform our understanding of the dynamics around supply chain behaviors and relationships?	Despite the prevailing descriptive and predictive qualities of agency theory, its application to the discipline of SCM is lacking. Agency theory provides valuable insights for relationship engineering in supply chains where social, political, legal, and behavioral dynamics dominate	Study issues such as: information sharing, risk/reward sharing, and establishing/maintaining inter-organizational relationships (as opposed to the dyadic investigations prevalent in the literature). Also, investigate the assumptions underlying agency relationships in supply chains