[Logprofs] Journal of Supply Chain Management, Volume 61, Issue 4

[Andreas Wieland]

Dear colleagues,

The Journal of Supply Chain Management’s latest issue (Volume 61, Issue 4) is now available. As always, the issue tackles timely theoretical puzzles with strong managerial and societal implications. Beyond tariffs, it spans recovery from environmental incidents, resilience prerequisites, sustainability brokerage, activist investors’ influence on recalls, worker responses to CSR decoupling, and a new network measure for pinpointing critical supply nodes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1745493x/current

(1) John-Patrick Paraskevas, Robert Wiedmer & Christopher W. Craighead: An Examination of the Tariff-Induced “Tug of War” Between Inventory Buffering and Inventory Leanness.
Using a new importer database and difference-in-differences around the 2018 U.S. tariffs, the authors find tariff-exposed firms became leaner and more inventory efficient. The study sharpens the buffering-versus-leanness debate under policy shocks. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.70004

(2) Lisi Guan, Evelyne Vanpoucke & Tim Hilken: Dynamic Attribution in Chain Liability: Managing Recovery From Environmental Supply Chain Incidents.
Vignette evidence shows incident severity has distinct dimensions (environmental impact, health risk, proximity) that shape repurchase intentions; monitoring and restitution help, but bundling them can blunt gains. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12349

(3) Ethan Nikookar, Imran Ali, Mark Stevenson & Sajjad Shokouhyar: Necessary Antecedents of Supply Chain Resilience: The Nonnegotiable Influence of Supply Chain Responsiveness and Collaboration.
Necessary-condition analysis of 479 Australian manufacturers finds responsiveness and collaboration are required for resilience, supporting a two-tier maturity model of resilience capabilities and investment priorities. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.70000

(4) Eugenia Rosca, Madeleine Pullman & Mark Pagell: Brokering for the Benefit of Others: How Purpose-Driven Organizations Create Sustainable Supply Chains.
Across 31 coffee-supply-chain cases, purpose-driven organizations bridge structural holes via aligning, empowering, educating, and mobilizing, and by legitimating novel practices through single-direction or multi-stakeholder brokerage. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.70002

(5) Jessica L. Darby, Kaitlin D. Wowak, David J. Ketchen Jr & Brian L. Connelly: An Agency Theory Perspective on Activist Investors and Supply Chain Failures: The Case of Product Recalls.
In 5,427 medical product recalls, activist-investor ownership is associated with faster recalls, especially for design-related and high-severity defects – evidence of a socially beneficial spillover effect. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.70003

(6) Tra-My T. Le, Chikako Oka, Valentina Carbone & Aurélien Acquier: Workers’ Responses to CSR Decoupling in Garment Supply Chains: A Hirschmanian Perspective.
Hirschman’s exit–voice–loyalty–neglect lens yields four worker responses to CSR decoupling shaped by outside options and mobilization, illustrated in a longitudinal Cambodian garment case. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.70001

(7) Yusoon Kim & Hyunwoo Park: Theorizing Critical Locus of Supply: A Material Flow Perspective.
The new “critical locus of supply” (CLS) weights upstream nodes by reroutability/substitutability of material flows and outperforms standard centrality across 12 pharmaceutical networks in flagging continuity risks. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.70008

We hope these contributions spark new research, teaching, and practice conversations across our community.
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We would like to take this opportunity to send you our best wishes for the holidays and a great start to the new year.

Davide Luzzini, Hannah Stolze, and Andreas Wieland
Co-Editors-in-Chief, Journal of Supply Chain Management
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