Showing papers in "Journal of Operations Management in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, the state-of-the-science regarding validity threats using a representative sample of 468 recent experiments from 258 articles published in top-tier journals is discussed. And the importance for journals and authors to follow what they identify to be best-practice methodological suggestions (i.e., the "ten commandments" of experimental research).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an inductive research on three supply networks in the automotive, electronics, and consumer product/pharmaceutical industries and collected data on three leading sustainable MNCs and a subset of 9 tier-one suppliers and 22 lower-tier suppliers and complemented that information with data on several NGOs and industry organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize recent OM literature with respect to the treatment for endogeneity by reviewing studies published in leading OM journals between 2012 and 2017, and provide an empirical illustration tailored to OM researchers for using instrumental variable regression in the post-design (data analysis) phase.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a background and context from the wider literature to provide research opportunities in socially responsible supply chains, and outline case studies in emerging countries where large companies engage the poor as producers and the rich as distributors.

TL;DR: The results from this experiment suggest that selecting models judgmentally results in performance that is on par, if not better, to that of algorithmic selection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the promise of ship-to-store capabilities by analyzing transactional data from a national jewelry retailer to study impacts of introducing shipto-stores on a retailer's operating performance, in terms of sales and customer returns.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a longitudinal multiple case study method to explore multiple intermediary dyads in South India's knitwear garment industry and drew upon constructs of behavioural economics to find that the way in which intermediaries frame social sustainability requirements and their associated procedures influenced both the way sub-suppliers perceive the procedural fairness of those requirements and the way they thus reciprocate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of various crowdsourced delivery system designs related to driver disclosure and ethnicity on customers' attitudes towards the drivers and retailers, and found that disclosing drivers' identity increase customers' trust, satisfaction, and repurchase intentions only when customers perceive the drivers to be similar to them, particularly with regard to ethnicity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether financial dependence upon a few customers is negatively related to the allocation of innovation resources of supplier firms and investigated whether these negative effects of supplier dependence on research and development (R&D) intensity are reduced when the supplier leverages social capital conceptualized in terms of eigenvector centrality and interconnectedness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a multi-method approach to explore the nature of suppliers' CSR heterogeneity based on the various components of CSR in emerging countries, and the choices of multinational enterprises for extending CSR to different types of suppliers in dynamic environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study was conducted to investigate the institutional process of supply chain localization in four multinational enterprises (MNEs) in China and found that SC localization is an institutional process, taking place at both actor and field levels, where continuous ideation of new operations practices leads to structuring of both the SC and SC field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of buyer-supplier flexibility fit (i.e., the match between the level of flexibility the customer expects from its supplier and the supplier's level of flexibleness) and explore its impact on the suppliers' financial performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how purchasing managers evaluate the trade-off between short-term economic (i.e., purchasing cost reduction) and social/environmental sustainability criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the systemwide impact of waiting on customer behavior and resulting revenue by analyzing data obtained from 94,404 customers visiting a popular Indian restaurant during a 12-month period.

TL;DR: This study characterize the dynamic relationship between the structural mechanisms on a longitudinal dataset of 2221 unique firms and 13,668 firm-year observations spanning 25 years, and finds empirical support for negative crossover effects between two key structural properties of supply chain alliance networks.

TL;DR: This study provides empirical evidence that instead of merely adoption, assimilation of EHRs at a hospital-wide level can improve the efficiency with which patients are treated, with benefits from such an assimilation being far more pronounced for patients with a greater degree of health complexities.

TL;DR: The authors found that product competition is positively associated with manufacturing-related recalls, providing evidence of a possible downside to competition in the pharmaceutical industry, which may encourage companies to relax quality standards during the manufacturing process, leading to lower quality products.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a set of factors that may influence the recall decision, including a physician's ability to detect a defect prior to product use, understanding of the root cause of the defect, and cost of the recall.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the direct and indirect effects of two critical component supply-disruption attributes (CONTROLLABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY) on supplier non-retention post disruption using a scenario-based role-playing experiment with 253 purchasing professionals.

TL;DR: A multi-method exploratory approach is adopted to understand the nature and existence of IRI between cycle counts in a multi-channel environment based on continuous, daily IRI-related observations, and a system dynamics model is developed to explore the interaction between employees and the rest of the inventory system.

TL;DR: Study of how supply network asset flows are impacted during a mega disaster response and finds that resource fluidity, the capability to reallocate resources quickly, impacts both mega disaster and ROW program asset flows within these supply networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify antecedents of inventory agility (i.e., the capability to quickly adapt inventories to changes in demand) upon demand shocks based on the awareness-motivation-capability (AMC) framework and explore the link between inventory agility and financial performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to transfer weather risks to risk takers and reduce sales volatility using weather index-based financial instruments, and demonstrate its efficiency in reducing cash-flow uncertainty and potential losses caused by adverse weather.

TL;DR: The ways simulation methods can augment and answer questions that are not addressed through traditional empirical methods are looked at, and a framework regarding how and when to use simulation methods for a given research objectives and design is offered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how organizational alignment between professionals and organizations, and the organizations in which they work, influence the supply management efficiency of the organization, based on a cross-sectional sample of hospital data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of national culture on the effectiveness of incentive contracts in supply chain exchanges and find that suppliers associated with collectivist cultures exert more effort and shirk less in incentive contracts.

TL;DR: Overall, expanding decision making about patient prioritization from only considering the patient's clinical condition to also including operational data can improve performance dramatically, even without improved service times.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors model the value of responsiveness as the cost premium worth paying to reduce the decision lead time (the justified cost premium), and fit their model to two data sets, first publicly available demand data from Reebok, then point-of-sale data from a supermarket chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model the financial features of a supply chain based on industry reports and empirical findings from the finance literature, and show that payment variability occurs and propagates, even if orders are constant, in a cash-constrained supply chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the optimal contracting derived from a parsimonious analytical model with actual behaviors observed in an experiment, focusing on how project uncertainty, buying company effort share, and buyer risk aversion influence three contractual decisions: total investment level, revenue share and fixed fee.