Vikram Bhakoo

TL;DR: In this paper, the double agency role of the first-tier suppliers in multi-tier supply chains is investigated, and the conditions under which firsttier suppliers will act as agents who fulfill the lead firm's sustainability requirements and implement these requirements in their suppliers' operations (i.e., the secondary agency role).

TL;DR: The authors provide a systematic and thorough analysis of shared value, focusing on its ontological and epistemological properties, and provide recommendations for defining and measuring the concept, take a step toward disentangling it from related concepts, and identify relevant theories and research methods that would facilitate extending the knowledge frontier on shared value.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how organizations in different tiers in the supply chain (i.e. hospitals, distributors and manufacturers) respond to institutional pressures when implementing interorganizational systems (IOS).

TL;DR: This study highlights the existence of a variety of collaborative arrangements amongst supply chain partners such as the “Ward Box” system (a variant of the vender managed inventory system) between wholesalers/distributors and hospitals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how customers perceive their logistics service providers in terms of achieving the claimed benefits of outsourcing and find that customers place significant value on the services they provide, technologies they use and objectives that transcend just low cost.