Applying Theories from Other Disciplines to Logistics and Supply Chain Management: A Systematic Literature Review

Swanson, David; Goel, Lakshmi; Francisco, Kristoffer; Stock, James R.

doi:10.5325/transportationj.56.3.0299

Cited by 32 publications

(20 citation statements)

References 55 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The SCM academic discipline has matured rapidly to keep up the growth of professional practice (Maloni & Carter, 2018). SCM scholars have a much better understanding of processes from other disciplinary theories such as the resource-based view from management (Swanson et al, 2017), supply chain design (Fawcett et al, 2018) and interorganizational relationships (Krainer et al, 2018).…”

Section: Supply Chain Management Associationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-criteria analysis of professional education on supply chain management

Tramarico

Karpak

Salomon

et al. 2019

Prod.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Paper aims: This paper presents an analysis of professional education programs on Supply Chain Management (SCM). The purpose of this study is to analyze six professional education programs offered by the leading SCM associations, including Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster, Certified Production and Inventory Management, Certified Professional in Supply Management, and Supply Chain Professional. The analysis of professional education programs shall consider relevant criteria. There are multiple relevant criteria; some are tangible, and some others are intangible. Originality: In 2007 Prof. Lummus researched professional education influence to SCM practices. This work is an extension of Prof. Lummus research, updating it, including more professional education programs and analyzing with AHP. Research method: This paper applied the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a method for multi-criteria analysis, considering individual benefits and organizational benefits as the two main criteria, and professional education programs as alternatives. Main findings: The two major contributions of this paper are: first, it presents individual benefits and organizational benefits that must be met by professional education programs; second, it evaluates the programs from multiple perspectives. Implications for theory and practice: The approach proposed evaluates both tangible and intangible benefits of the programs.

show abstract

Section: Supply Chain Management Associationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-criteria analysis of professional education on supply chain management

Tramarico

Karpak

Salomon

et al. 2019

Prod.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Over twenty years ago the late Tom Mentzer, in conjunction with different co-authors, began publishing a series of papers about the need for research rigour, relevance and the proper use of appropriate theories and frameworks in several LSCM and marketing journals (see for example Mentzer and Kahn, 1995;Mentzer and Flint, 1997;Mentzer et al, 2001;Mentzer et al, 2004;Mentzer, 2008). These papers stimulated other authors to also discuss issues in logistics and supply chain theory, methodology and methods (see for example New and Payne, 1995;Näslund, 2002;Grant, 2004;Spens and Kovács, 2006;Halldórsson et al, 2007;Flynn, 2008;Halldórsson et al, 2015;Swanson et al, 2017).…”

Section: Accepted For Publication In European Business Review On 4 Ocmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding theories used in LSCM research, Swanson et al (2017) found that seven theories are primarily used: the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm (17.8%), transaction cost economics (TCE) or transaction cost theory (11.8%) game theory (10.0%), contingency theory (8.3%), institutional theory (6.3%), and organization and agency theory (5.0% each).…”

Section: Accepted For Publication In European Business Review On 4 Ocmentioning

confidence: 99%

Questionable research practices in academia: antecedents and consequences

Grant

Kovács

Spens

2018

EBR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

PurposeThis paper is a viewpoint and its objective is to discuss questionable research practices in business research, particularly in the logistics and supply chain management discipline, in light of antecedents influenced by the current academic environment and the consequences for academic rigour and relevance in order to stimulate thinking and debate among the academic community. Design/methodology/approachA literature review and autoethnographic approach were used to examine these issues based on over sixty years' collective academic experience of the authors. Data was collected from discussions among the paper's authors as well as recounting open discussions with other academics and journal editors to collate their observations. FindingsEvidence is provided of issues the authors have seen first-hand where antecedents in the academic environment influences questionable research practices, which then detrimentally affect research rigour and relevance, integrity and proper contributions to ground-breaking research and knowledge advancement. Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is based on personal observations and experiences of the three authors as well as open-ended discussions with others in the academic community. Suggestions are provided for various academic stakeholders to address these issues. Practical implicationsPractical implications are only provided for academics in their roles as authors, journal editors and reviewers.2 Social implicationsEncouraging the academic community to eliminate questionable research practices to improve the rigour, relevance and quality of research will provide more credibility and integrity resulting in better impact and outcomes for society at large. Originality/valueThe value of this paper is in stimulating thinking and debate amongst academics to return to core issues and values in academia opposed to focussing on narrow university goals focussed on other antecedents of questionable research practices.3 researchers and authors, i.e. from either a business and marketing or industrial engineering perspective. We have adopted this approach and as we believe we can only comment on things we know and understand, however we have used the corollary disciplines to provide additional examples.Our paper is structured as follows. After discussing the method used we begin by reviewing the nature of 'incentives' towards publish or perish in this 21 st century academic landscape and discuss the role of authors, reviewers, journals and editors, and indeed business schools in driving these incentives at the role. We identify and discuss QRPs related thereto and their effect on research rigour, relevance and integrity. We then conclude the paper with suggestions for all academic stakeholders to address these issues in order to improve the state of academic research and its impact on rigour and relevance as well as on ethical behaviour and integrity. Figure 1 provides a 'conceptual model' to graphically show these issues and provide a roadmap for this paper's flow. Insert Figure...

show abstract

“…This may lead to an unwanted and unforeseen discrepancy between what a company rationally formulates as its supply chain strategy and the practices actually implemented. Recent literature reviews have pointed to intense use of TCE and RBV as the theoretical foundation of logistics and SCM studies (Sachan and Datta, 2005;Defee et al, 2010;Swanson et al, 2017). Being under increasing pressure to cut costs and improve return on investments, companies face the dilemma of whether to keep key functions in-house or outsource them to third-party suppliers.…”

Section: Supply Chain Strategy Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

The idea of transport independence in the Russian Arctic

Tsvetkova

Gammelgaard²

2018

IJPDLM

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how supply chain strategies emerge and evolve in response to contextual influence. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative single-case study presents the journey of a supply chain strategy, conceptualised as the idea of transport independence in the Russian Arctic context. Data from 18 semi-structured interviews, personal observations and archival materials are interpreted through the institutional concepts of translation and editing effects. Findings The study reveals how supply chain strategies evolve over time and can affect institutional factors. The case study further reveals how contextual conditions make a company reconsider its core competencies as well as the role of supply chain management practices. The findings show that strategy implementation through purposeful actions can represent a powerful resistance to contextual pressures and constraints, as well as being a facilitator of change in actual supply chains and their context. During the translation of the idea of transport independence into actions, the supply chain strategy transformed itself into a form of strategic collaboration and thereby made supply chains in the Russian Arctic more integrated than before. Research limitations/implications More empirical studies on strategy implementation in interaction with contextual and institutional factors are suggested. An institutional process perspective is applied in this study but the authors suggest that future research should include a human dimension by an exploration of day-to-day routines and challenges that employees face when strategising and the actions they take. Originality/value The study provides an understanding of how a new supply chain strategy emerges and how it changes during implementation. In this process-oriented study – merging context, process and strategy content – it is further shown that a supply chain strategy may affect the context by responding to contextual and institutional challenges.

show abstract

Applying Theories from Other Disciplines to Logistics and Supply Chain Management: A Systematic Literature Review

Cited by 32 publications

References 55 publications

Multi-criteria analysis of professional education on supply chain management

Multi-criteria analysis of professional education on supply chain management

Questionable research practices in academia: antecedents and consequences

The idea of transport independence in the Russian Arctic

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About