Purpose: Drawing on the transactional cost economics (TCE) perspective, we aim to investigate the effects of the balance and imbalance between contractual and relational governance on a firm's bridging responses to supply chain disruptions. By adopting the institutionally contingent...

The COVID-19 outbreak has magnified the global poverty problem. The socially responsible supply chains plays an important role in poverty alleviation. The leading model of socially responsible agricultural supply chain in China, contract farming, is selected as the subject of investigation....