Purpose – The logistics and supply chain management discipline has evolved dramatically over the past generation. The rapid pace of change has challenged education providers – e.g., universities, professional associations, and publications – to remain relevant to various stakeholders....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how service perceptions influence customer views of the authenticity of corporate sustainability claims. The goal of this paper is to help supply chain decision-makers better understand boundary conditions in order to design more enduring and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic paradigmatic lens through which the supply chain collaboration phenomena – including collaborative inventory management – can be understood and explained. Design/methodology/approach – As theory‐building research, the paper...

Purpose Over the past two decades, technological advances have spurred companies to design collaborative processes. Yet most such efforts are difficult to implement, with only a few resulting in sustained competitive advantages. The purpose of this paper is to leverage the tenets of...

Purpose Trust has long been viewed as a potential governance mechanism. However, recent research discloses substantive incongruities in trust conceptualization and operationalization – especially in the supply chain buyer/supplier context. The purpose of this paper is to develop an empirically...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate research trends observed in the International Journal of Logistics Management ( IJLM ) during its first 20 years of publication. Design/methodology/approach – A content analysis was conducted of the IJLM 's first 20 years of publication (330...

Co‐production through maquiladora operations has become an increasingly popular approach to meeting the competitive challenges presented by economic globalization. To take full advantage of the benefits available through co‐production, a comprehensive logistics system must be put in place to...

Purpose Supplier codes of conduct (CoC) are the primary mechanism companies use to drive corporate social responsibility (CSR) upstream in their supply chains. Companies have traditionally used CoC to tackle systemic social issues (e.g. forced labor, wages and working conditions). More recently,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to bring awareness to the logistics and supply chain management (L/SCM) community’s broken review process. Design/methodology/approach The authors diagnose some of the core problems that limit the L/SCM community from disseminating high-quality research in...