OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Supply Chain Management-An International Journal is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How do joint ventures and non-equity strategic alliances impact the complexity of the supply chain and thus supply chain performance?	140
Investigating barriers to demand-driven SME collaboration in low-volume high-variability manufacturing	127
Challenges and opportunities of supply chain traceability: insights from emergent agri-food sector	103
Knowledge management in offshoring innovation by SMEs: role of internal knowledge creation capability, absorptive capacity and formal knowledge-sharing routines	99
Drivers of consumer protection practices: implications for operational performance	90
End-to-end sustainability: trade-offs, consumers’ perceptions and decisions beyond B2C interfaces	83
A systematic analysis of quality management in agri-food supply chains: a hierarchy of capabilities perspective	82
Small and medium-sized enterprises’ path to sustainable supply chains: exploring the role of supply chain finance and risk management	78
Uncovering effects of supply chain distance on sustainability adoption: empirical evidence from a multi-stakeholder partnership	77
When digital transformation meets supply chain needs in emerging markets: contributions for social and economic performance	70
The effects of industry 4.0 technologies on relational performance: the mediating role of supply chain emergence in the transitive logistics service triads	61
Managing supplier sustainability risk: an experimental study	60
Achieving supply chain resilience in an era of disruptions: a configuration approach of capacities and strategies	56
A novel coexistent resilience index to evaluate the supply chain resilience of industries using fuzzy logic	54
Let us get contextual: critical realist case studies in supply chain management	50
Impact of modern slavery allegations on operating performance	50
Supply chain stakeholder pressure for the adoption of sustainable supply chain practices: examining the roles of entrepreneurial and sustainability orientations	47
Industry 4.0 technology capabilities, resilience and incremental innovation in Australian manufacturing firms: a serial mediation model	45
Toward a holistic understanding of sustainability in corporations: resource-based view of sustainable supply chain management	44
Managerial political skill and achieved supply chain integration: the mediating effects of supply chain orientation and organizational politics	41
Job role clarity: a missing component of supply chain visibility	40
How artificial intelligence-based supply chain analytics enable supply chain agility and innovation? An intellectual capital perspective	38
Restraining forces and drivers of supply chain collaboration: evidence from an emerging market	38
Highlight risk management in supply chain finance: effects of supply chain risk management capabilities on financing performance of small-medium enterprises	37
Sustainable purchasing supply management assessment in construction supply chains: a design science research approach	34

Examining the moderating role of HIHRP in the relationship between external integration and productivity	33
Overcoming the barriers to food recovery	30
Exploring the value chain of organic pineapple of Assam, India	30
How can supply chain optimization and improvement be achieved in an automotive sector modular consortium?	29
Impact of digital technology usage on firm resilience: a dynamic capability perspective	28
Customer integration and customer value: contingency roles of innovation capabilities and supply chain network complexity	28
A COVID replication and extension of firms’ resilience to supply chain disruptions	28
Unfolding the impact of supply chain quality management practices on sustainability performance: an artificial neural network approach	28
Episodic supply chains at times of disruption	27
Measuring institutional pressures in a supply chain context: scale development and testing	27
Eco-innovation in the upstream supply chain: re-thinking the involvement of purchasing managers	25
Supply chain relational capital for sustainability through governance: the moderating effect of network complexity	24
Factors influencing the acceptance of private and public blockchain-based collaboration among supply chain practitioners: a parallel mediation model	24
The impact of using digital technologies on supply chain resilience and robustness: the role of memory under the covid-19 outbreak	24
Leveraging data-driven decisions: a framework for building intracompany capability for supply chain optimization and resilience	24
Digitalisation in food supply chains to build resilience from disruptive events: a combined dynamic capabilities and knowledge-based view	24
Analyzing the mediating role of organizational ambidexterity and digital business transformation on industry 4.0 capabilities and sustainable supply chain performance	23
Supply chain agility responding to unprecedented changes: empirical evidence from the UK food supply chain during COVID-19 crisis	23
Empirical testing of a model on supply chain management adoption in India using the case study method	23
Contextualizing resilience to critical infrastructure maintenance supply networks	23
Supply chain collaboration and supply chain finance adoption: the moderating role of information transparency and transaction dependence	22
Behavioral operations management and supply chain coordination mechanisms: a systematic review and classification of the literature	22
Does supplier involvement enhance financial performance? The encapsulation effects of product modularity and smartness	22
Enabling supply chain efficacy through SC risk mitigation and absorptive capacity: an empirical investigation in manufacturing firms in the Middle East region – a moderated-mediated model	22
Evaluating firm resilience through responsiveness and logistics outsourcing in the COVID-19 era	22
The role of power-based behaviours on pharmaceutical supply chain resilience	22
Does environmental proactivity make a difference? The critical roles of green operations and collaboration in GSCM	22
The application of digital twin technology in operations and supply chain management: a bibliometric review	21
The outlook for modern slavery in the apparel sector in a post-lockdown economy	20
Examining the rigor of SCM research: the case of supply chain agility	19
A start-up’s collaboration in networks for sustainable freight transport: a micro-meso-macro approach to innovation	19
Networked business models on a nascent market for sustainable innovation	18
Multi-tier sustainable supply chain management: a case study of a global food retailer	18
The “horse-meat” scandal: illegal activity in the food supply chain	18
Challenges in extending sustainability across a transport supply chain	18
The impact of digital transformation of chain-leading enterprises on supply chain efficiency	18
Breaking the cycle of inertia in food supply chains: a systems thinking approach for innovation and sustainability	18
Integrating sustainability and economic perspectives in reshoring: insights from the German automotive industry	17
Leveraging on technology and sustainability to innovate the supply chain: a proposal of agri-food value chain model	17
Decentralization of information and supply chain self-organization: the resulting effect on network performance in the transitive service triads	17
Supply chain 4.0 ambidexterity and lean supply chain management: interrelationships and effect on the focal firm’s operational performance	17
The role of technology in supply chain decarbonisation: towards an integrated conceptual framework	17
Supply network resilience capabilities: a social–ecological perspective	16
Developing net-zero carbon supply chains in the European manufacturing industry – a multilevel perspective	16
Beyond the hype: how blockchain affects supply chain performance	16
Digital project driven supply chains: a new paradigm	15
The relationship between information processing capabilities, Net-Zero capability and supply chain performance	15
Guest editorial	15
The role of cognitive capital in supply chain resilience: an investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
How can green innovation from manufacturers benefit from supplier networks?	14

Animal welfare in fashion: a typology of transparent, translucent and opaque supply chains	14
Blockchain technology for supply chain provenance: increasing supply chain efficiency and consumer trust	14
Risk management behaviour in digital factories: the influence of technology and task uncertainty on managerial risk responses	13
Covid-19 response of an additive manufacturing cluster in Australia	13
Innovation for zero-deforestation sustainable supply chain management services: a performance measurement and management approach	13
Survey of graduate supply chain courses: content, coverage and gaps	12
Eco-innovation analysis of OECD countries with common weight analysis in data envelopment analysis	12
The role of NGOs in sustainable supply chain management: a social movement perspective	12
Managing asymmetrical supply chain relationships: psychological ownership and commitment in the agri-food sector	12
Managing glitches in collaborative product development with suppliers	12
Connecting the dots: uncovering the relationships between challenges confronting Africa's organ transplant supply chain systems	11
Offshore outsourcing of innovation by SMEs: a 4F perspective of governance	10
The partial mediating role of supply chain integration between Industry 4.0 and supply chain performance	10
The role of digital platforms in e-commerce food supply chain resilience under exogenous disruptions	10
The future of sustainable supply chains: a novel tertiary-systematic methodology	10
The big picture on supply chain integration – insights from a bibliometric analysis	10
Facilitating the circular economy: insights from novel supply network actors	10
How can digital technology deployment empower supply chain financing? A resource orchestration perspective	10
Manufacturers’ tailored responses to powerful supply chain partners	10
Insight from industry-early lessons learned about AI adoption in core procurement processes, directions for managers and researchers	10
Research on the construction process of supply chain ecosystem led by digital platform enterprises from the perspective of dynamic capability	10
Supply chain digitalization and performance improvement: a moderated mediation model	10
Different paths to improving together: a taxonomy of buyer-supplier collaborations for sustainability in food supply networks	10
Cognitive frames held by supply chain managers: implications for the management of sustainability in supply chains	9
Unlocking resilience and performance: the dynamic impact of collaborative social media integration in operations, marketing and sales	9
A graph-theoretic approach for assessing the leanness level of supply chains	9
Blockchain for compliance: an information processing case study of mandatory supply chain transparency in conflict minerals sourcing	9
A maturity model for supply chain risk management	9
The role of capabilities in shaping sustainable supply chain flexibility and enhancing circular economy-target performance: an empirical study	9
Exploring the nexus between GSCM and organisational culture: insights on the role of supply chain integration	9
Guest editorial: The interplay between new innovations, sustainability and food supply chains	9
The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act: impacts on sustainable supply chain management from a stakeholder perspective	8
Empirical research on the relationships between demand- and supply-side risk management practices and their impact on business performance	8
The relationship between internal supply chain structure and operational performance: survey results from Japanese manufacturers	8
The impact of supply chain finance on corporate social responsibility and creating shared value: a case from the emerging economy	8
The impact of digital traceability on sustainability performance: investigating the roles of sustainability-oriented innovation and supply chain learning	8
Linkages between technologies and supply chain performance: benefits, power and risk reduction	8