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Brokering for the Benefit of Others: How Purpose‐Driven Organizations Create Sustainable Supply Chains Open

Eugenia Rosca, Madeleine Pullman, Mark Pagell · 2025

Structural holes in global supply chains isolate suppliers in low‐ and middle‐income economies from buyers and consumers in high‐income economies, hindering the accomplishment of sustainability goals. Previous research has studied how for‐…

Who should manage worker safety to reduce occupational accidents? Open

Frank Wiengarten, Christian F. Durach, Mark Pagell, Paul Humphreys · 2025

Purpose Operations management research and practice has started to embrace sustainability in all its forms, including worker safety. Worker safety is a pivotal component of social sustainability, with accidents occurring largely in a firm’…

Putting the S in Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A People‐Centric Research Agenda Open

Mark Pagell, Miriam Wilhelm · 2025

The aim of this disciplined provocation is to challenge some of the fundamental assumptions in supply chain management research and practice—most notably the discipline’s current conceptualization of supply chain excellence that has proven…

Cracking the code: the effects of codes of conduct and decision frames on supplier selection in financially distressed firms Open

Christian F. Durach, Mary Parkinson, Frank Wiengarten, Mark Pagell · 2023

Purpose Firms are increasingly required to make ethical choices when selecting suppliers for their supply chains, and the decisions often rest on individual purchasing managers within the firm. This study builds on the literature on ethica…

The effect of temporary workers and works councils on process innovation Open

Christian F. Durach, Frank Wiengarten, Mark Pagell · 2022

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effects of temporary workers and works councils on process innovations at manufacturing sites. The impact of temporary workers, commonly viewed as a means of operational flexibility and cost savin…

Testing the shoulders of giants—Replication research using registered reports Open

Thomas F. Gattiker, Julia Hartmann, Finn Wynstra, Mark Pagell, David E. Cantor , et al. · 2021

This editorial encourages supply chain management researchers to conduct and submit replication research for publication consideration to the Journal of Supply Chain Management . The Journal is particularly interested in efforts to replica…

Exploring the performance implications of precarious work Open

Frank Wiengarten, Mark Pagell, Christian F. Durach, Paul Humphreys · 2021

Precarious work, or employment that is associated with temporary contracts, low earnings and limited or no employee representation, is on the rise. From an operations perspective, these practices should enable flexibility and reduce costs.…

From the Editors: Introduction to Managing Supply Chains Beyond Covid‐19 ‐ Preparing for the Next Global Mega‐Disruption Open

Barbara B. Flynn, David E. Cantor, Mark Pagell, Kevin Dooley, Arash Azadegan · 2020

The COVID‐19 pandemic has forced supply chain management researchers and practitioners to question many of our firmly held assumptions about the discipline. Perhaps the most interesting question is, where does supply chain management go fr…

Call for papers for the 2021 Emerging Discourse Incubator: Managing Working Conditions in Supply Chains: Towards Decent Work Open

Vivek Soundararajan, Miriam Wilhelm, Andrew Crane, Mark Pagell · 2020

The topic for JSCM's fourth emerging discourse incubator (EDI) is Managing Working Conditions in Supply Chains: Toward Decent Work. Decent work refers to “opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in th…

Relationship configurations for procuring from social enterprises Open

Osama Meqdadi, Thomas Johnsen, Mark Pagell · 2020

Purpose This paper explores how the procurement function initiates and develops relationships with social enterprises that are intended to induce social impact in the supply networks of for-profit firms. Design/methodology/approach The pap…

Editorial Commentary: Addressing Confusion in the Diffusion of Archival Data Research Open

Jason Miller, Beth Davis‐Sramek, Brian S. Fugate, Mark Pagell, Barbara B. Flynn · 2020

Supply chain management researchers are increasingly using archival data to push boundaries of existing knowledge. Archival data provide opportunities to address new research questions and offer fresh perspectives on old questions. This ed…

Call for papers for the 2021 Emerging Discourse Incubator: Managing Working Conditions in Supply Chains: Towards Decent Work Open

Vivek Soundararajan, Miriam Wilhelm, Andrew Crane, Mark Pagell · 2020

The topic for JSCM's fourth emerging discourse incubator (EDI) is Managing Working Conditions in Supply Chains: Toward Decent Work. Decent work refers to “opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in th…

The Tension Between Worker Safety and Organization Survival Open

Mark Pagell, Mary Parkinson, Anthony Veltri, John Gray, Frank Wiengarten , et al. · 2020

This research addresses the fundamental question of whether providing a safe workplace improves or hinders organizational survival, because there are conflicting predictions on the relationship between worker safety and organizational perf…

From the Editors: Introduction to the Emerging Discourse Incubator on the Topic of Emerging Approaches for Developing Supply Chain Management Theory Open

Barbara B. Flynn, Mark Pagell, Brian S. Fugate · 2020

The Journal of Supply Chain Management ’s 2020 Emerging Discourse Incubator hopes to stimulate the development of supply chain specific theory. Well‐executed case‐based research will always be an appropriate means for developing supply cha…

Issue Information Open

Lawrence D. Fredendall, Anand Nair, Jeffery S. Smith, Anita Tucker J O U R N A L O F, Aravind Chandrasekaran , et al. · 2020

Purchasing and supply management's identity: Crisis? What crisis? Open

Lisa M. Ellram, Christine Harland, Arjan van Weele, Michael Eßig, Thomas Johnsen , et al. · 2019

Deviations from aspirational target levels and environmental and safety performance: Implications for operations managers acting irresponsibly Open

Frank Wiengarten, Di Fan, Mark Pagell, Chris K.Y. Lo · 2019

The relationship between sustainable operations and a firm's financial performance has been an ongoing focus of operations management scholars. Previous literature has extensively explored the impact of acting responsibly on financial perf…

Micro-Foundations of Supply Chain Integration: An Activity-Based Analysis Open

Muhammad Usman Ahmed, Mark Pagell, Mehmet Murat Kristal, Thomas F. Gattiker · 2019

A large body of literature has studied supply chain integration (SCI) at the macro (firm or dyad) level. However, the micro-foundations of SCI that highlight the range of different activities and choices firms have in implementing integrat…

Cultural Research in theProduction and OperationsManagement Field Open

Richard Metters, Donna Marshall, Mark Pagell · 2019

We summarize and categorize Operations Management (OM) research on two inter-related types of â€œcultureâ€ : exogenous, or national culture and endogenous, or organizational culture. OM cultural research is far less than one percent of tot…

Managerial Time Horizons and the Decision to Put Operational Workers at Risk: The Role of Debt Open

Mark Pagell, Frank Wiengarten, Di Fan, Paul Humphreys, Chris K.Y. Lo · 2018

Previous research has established a link between the debt component of capital structure and managers making risky decisions. Literature in finance and strategy has explored the role of debt and concluded that increases in debt focus manag…

Editorial: Survey Research Design in Supply Chain Management: The Need for Evolution in Our Expectations Open

Barbara B. Flynn, Mark Pagell, Brian S. Fugate · 2017

Survey research in supply chain management has been and will continue to be an important methodology in advancing theory and practice. However, supply chain scholars have multiple, divergent views regarding what is acceptable in terms of s…

Complexity and the triple bottom line: an information-processing perspective Open

Frank Wiengarten, Muhammad Usman Ahmed, Annachiara Longoni, Mark Pagell, Brian Fynes · 2017

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of complexity on the triple bottom line by applying information-processing theory. Specifically, the paper assesses the impact of internal manufacturing complexity …

From the Editors—Introducing <i><span>JSCM</span></i>'s First Emerging Discourse Incubatlor for 2018/19 Open

Mark Pagell, Brian S. Fugate, Barbara B. Flynn · 2017

We are excited to introduce JSCM's first yearly Emerging Discourse Incubator (EDI) for 2018/19 on the topic of research where the focal actor in the network is not a for-profit firm. Please see the call for papers for more details. For JSC…

The differing impacts of operational and financial slack on occupational safety in varying market conditions Open

Frank Wiengarten, Di Fan, Chris K.Y. Lo, Mark Pagell · 2017

Operations management scholars have long debated the right level of slack resources required to optimize a production system. Recent research suggests that the right level of operational slack, typically in the form of inventory, is very l…

Editorial Open

Mark Pagell, Brian S. Fugate, Barbara B. Flynn · 2016

Being appointed as the co-editors of JSCM is both a great honor and a significant responsibility. Our heartfelt thanks go to the outgoing editorial team, who worked tirelessly to transform JSCM into a premiere journal, leaving us with a co…

Changing a Leopard's Spots: A New Research Direction for Organizational Culture in the Operations Management Field Open

Donna Marshall, Richard Metters, Mark Pagell · 2016

Operations Management (OM) research on organizational culture has to change to be able to inform practice. Currently, organizational culture research in OM is largely confined to narrow topical and methodological niches and culture is most…

Important factors in common among organizations making large improvement in OHS performance: Results of an exploratory multiple case study Open

Lynda S. Robson, Benjamin C. Amick, Cindy Moser, Mark Pagell, Elizabeth Mansfield , et al. · 2016

This exploratory study sought to identify the factors important to large improvement in workplace occupational health and safety (OHS) performance. Mixed methods were used to systematically identify 12 organizations in a workers' compensat…

Making Sustainability Sustainable Open

Frank Montabon, Mark Pagell, Zhaohui Wu · 2015

The vast majority of research and practice regarding sustainable supply chains has followed an instrumental logic, which has led firms and supply chain managers to place economic interests ahead of environmental and social interests. Evide…

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