Purpose – For the food industry, the depletion of arable land and a growing world population demand controlling the sustainability of agricultural inputs to the industry. Controlling the sustainability of these supplies means controlling the economic, social, and environmental performance of...

Purpose – To examine the conditions under which the proposed benefits of collaboration between a firm and its suppliers will occur. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines buyer‐supplier relationships from the point of view of the buying firm. The paper is based on a Swiss sample...

We develop a structural demand model that endogenously captures the effect of out-of-stocks on customer choice by simulating a time-varying set of available alternatives. Our estimation method uses store-level data on sales and partial information on product availability. Our model allows for...

With all the hype around efficient consumer response (ECR) and the brave new world of technologies, one would believe that retail out‐of‐stocks have gone down over the last ten years. That is wrong. Retailers have been struggling with considerable out‐of‐stocks for decades – with...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) bedeutet konsequente Prozessorientierung zur effizienten Gestaltung der Material- und Informationsflüsse im und zwischen Unternehmen. Aufgrund der Industrie- und Branchenstruktur ergeben sich unterschiedliche Anforderungen bezüglich Produkt, Markt, Technologie und...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) bedeutet konsequente Prozessorientierung zur effizienten Gestaltung der Material- und Informationsflüsse im und zwischen Unternehmen. Aufgrund der Industrie- und Branchenstruktur ergeben sich unterschiedliche Anforderungen bezüglich Produkt, Markt, Technologie und...

With the advent of the resource-based and dynamic capabilities views of the firm, researchers of collaborative relationships have raised the question as to whether superior management of such relationships does indeed explain observed differences in collaborative performance of individual firms....