Increased globalization, varying customer requirements, extended product lines, uncertainty
regarding supplier performance, and myriad related factors make supply chains utterly …

Industry and academia are increasingly focusing on sustainability as a competitive
advantage for firms in the supply chain. Despite the increasing research on sustainable …

This study examines the influence of participative leadership and cultural factors on
employees' speaking-up behaviour and knowledge-sharing in supplier development …

Purpose Suppliers are essential partners in innovation projects, as they own resources,
knowledge assets and capabilities that complement those of buying firms. In today's …

Companies are recently facing increasing supply chain disruptions that may influence their
supply base design choices. However, studies investigating how these choices affect the …

Whereas several studies find that financial scarcity has a detrimental impact on cognitive
functioning, some studies find no relationship and others even report beneficial effects. To …

Purpose In the wake of the growing popularity of the open innovation approach, leveraging
suppliers as external sources of innovation has attracted increasing interest from scholars …

Purpose As a popular supply chain finance (SCF) strategy, reverse factoring has been
widely adopted by buyer firms. However, the extant literature provides scant empirical …

This article explores challenges that suppliers experience when being involved in
customers' product development projects, and how these challenges can be mitigated. It …

In buyer-supplier relationships firms may find it convenient or economical to unilaterally
invest in high levels of assets exclusively dedicated to a specific transaction. While they can …