Purpose This paper aims to investigate small and medium-sized upstream suppliers' and downstream distributors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF) arrangements and their decisions to adopt such schemes. Design/methodology/approach In this paper grounded theory-informed methods are...

Product counterfeiting is a significant supply chain problem: it provides a direct economic challenge to legitimate producers, undermines the signalling value of trademarks and threatens consumer welfare. It affects many industries, including automotives, aerospace and pharmaceuticals, where the...

Purpose: This paper takes a contingency-based approach to internationalization, exploring how global operations are configured (e.g., the path and pace of internationalization) and coordinated (e.g., supply chain coordination). It also considers how internationalization decisions, such as the...

The Customer Enquiry Management (CEM) process is of strategic importance to non-Make-To-Stock companies but few empirical studies have explored the CEM practices adopted by firms in practice. A study on the Italian capital goods sector by Zorzini, Hendry, Stevenson, and Pozzetti (2008) provides...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide new insight into the modern slavery threat and to enhance its detection in supply chains by understanding and addressing barriers to whistleblowing. A broad definition of a whistle-blower is adopted, which includes any witness internal or...