[Logprofs] CfP: JBL Special Topic Forum on "Leveraging Logistics Decisions for Effective Buyer- Supplier Relationships"

[Goldsby, Thomas]

Please consider posting the following Call for Papers:  Journal of Business Logistics Special Topic Forum on "Leveraging Logistics Decisions for Effective Buyer- Supplier Relationships":


Logistics has long been recognized as a boundary spanning function that links planning and operational departments across the firm and businesses across the supply chain.  In serving as the physical linkage that connects companies, logistics decisions hold great promise for improving the effectiveness of buyer-supplier relationships.  In turn, effective buyer-supplier relationships contribute to the operational and financial well-being of both the buyer and the supplier.

Against this backdrop, this Special Topics Forum invites articles focusing on the role of logistics in facilitating or hindering the development, maintenance, and, as appropriate, dissolution of buyer-supplier relationships.  In particular, we are interested in how and why logistics management strategies and activities, performed in-house or by third-parties, affect buyer-supplier relationship evolution, structure, and performance.  Exemplary topics include, but are not limited to:


*         Logistics decisions and their impact on emerging governance and structural forms of buyer-supplier relationships;

*         Broader/emerging forms of buyer-supplier relationships (triads, etc.);

*         Role of the logistics function and logistics service providers in managing cross-cultural buyer-supplier relationships;

*         Adoption and success of logistics strategies for distributing and mitigating risks within a buyer-supplier relationship;

*         Logistics' role in power and dependence among buyers and suppliers in supply chain relationships;

*         Success and hindrance factors in leveraging technology to integrate logistics decisions or logistics service providers into buyer-supplier relationships; and

*         Forms of benefits sharing and magnitude of shared benefits in collaborative buyer-supplier relationships involving logistics service providers.

Suitable submissions can be primarily theory-building or theory-testing in purpose and employ empirical research, analytical, or simulation methods.


All papers submitted and deemed to be topically appropriate will be subjected to the typical double-blind JBL review process.  Submission date for full consideration will be June 30, 2013.  Interested authors can learn more, or submit a paper, by e-mailing one of the guest editors at Goldsby_2 at fisher.osu.edu, petersen at utk.edu, or rungtusanatham_1 at fisher.osu.edu.  We ask that paper submissions be directed to an individual with whom you have not had a working relationship.

Co-Editors of the Special Topic Forum:


*         Thomas J. Goldsby, The Ohio State University

*         Kenneth J. Petersen, The University of Tennessee

*         Johnny Rungtusanatham, The Ohio State University





Thank you.


-          TJG



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Thomas J. Goldsby, Ph.D.
Professor of Logistics
Department of Marketing & Logistics
Fisher College of Business
The Ohio State University
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