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A Guided Tour Through the Qualitative Research City

SCM Research

This is my first Journal of Supply Chain Management editorial. Journal of Supply Chain Management , 60 (1). Wieland, A., Tate, W.L., & Yan, T. A Guided Tour Through the Qualitative Research City.

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Getting Starry-eyed about Journals (Guest Post by Alan McKinnon)

SCM Research

My guest post today comes from Alan McKinnon who for several years has been raising concerns about the academic obsession with journal rankings and low rating of logistics/SCM journals. The literature challenging the principle, practice and application of journal ranking has been steadily expanding and becoming more critical.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

An analysis of improvement, performance, and value of over 500 public companies in 28 industries over a decade. (I Note to the reader: we selected these metrics for the balanced scorecard for the analysis after work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, most closely correlated with market capitalization.

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Egocentric Network vs. Whole Network Level of Analysis

SCM Research

Journal of Management, 33 (3), 479-516 DOI: 10.1177/0149206307302554. An incredibly insightful article by Provan et al. Egocentric theories often focus on the “embeddedness” of an organization in a network and on dyadic relationships. I am certain that supply chain management research can benefit from this valuable contribution.

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Five Ways to Fix Statistics in Supply Chain Research

SCM Research

Here are five answers: (1) Adjust for human cognition : Data analysis is not purely computational – it is a human behavior. 4) Share analysis plans and results : Techniques to avoid false positives are to pre-register analysis plans, and to share all data and results of all analyses as well as any relevant syntax or code. (5)

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Social Network Analysis in Supply Chain Management

SCM Research

It is time to take a closer look at Borgatti & Li’s (2009) important article: On Social Network Analysis in a Supply Chain Context. Last year, it was one of the ten most downloaded articles from the Journal of Supply Chain Management. On Social Network Analysis in a Supply Chain Context. Borgatti, S.P. &

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Global Supply-Chain Effects of COVID-19 Control Measures

SCM Research

The findings can be summarized as follows: “Short, sharp shock: stricter COVID-19 lockdowns imposed earlier have a smaller economic impact than moderate lockdowns that last longer, according to an analysis of global supply chains. It was published in the journal Nature Human Behavior. Hallegatte, S.

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