Purpose This paper, a pathway, aims to provide research guidance for investigating
sustainability in supply chains in a post-COVID-19 environment. Design/methodology …

The circular economy is gaining momentum in political and academic agendas. However,
little is empirically known about circular economy supply network configurations, dynamics …

Over the past five decades, the global population has doubled and is projected to reach 10
billion by the latter half of this century (Yaroson et al., 2024). With this significant population …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to create knowledge on the intuitive global sourcing
process applied by small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) managers …

While global sourcing often implies that the firm needs to, for example, redesign the
procurement organization and make decisions on what to centralize and what to manage …

Purpose This paper proposes an evaluation approach for analyzing excellence
management practices at a regional level based on experts' assessment …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the global sourcing process of Italian craft
microbreweries, particularly by identifying the main antecedents leading to the perception of …

Many supply chains have pledged to prevent the violation of workers' rights as part of social
sustainability in their far-flung supply chains. This paper provides a way to understand why …

Purpose The study aims to develop an organizational culture typology and explore how
different logistics service provider (LSP) and customer archetypes interact to generate …

Contingency theory is one of the focal theoretical lenses used to study organizations and
has also been the theoretical foundation for a substantial body of empirical research in a …