Purpose The discipline's most common uses for literature reviews—identifying gaps,
developing research agendas, and categorizing the literature—too often fail to challenge …

Purpose Scholars have called for diversity in methods and multi-method research to
enhance relevance to practice. However, many of the calls have only gone so far as to …

While systematic literature reviews (SLR s) have contributed substantially to developing
knowledge in fields such as medicine, they have made limited contributions to developing …

Although researchers have been working for over three decades to identify, construct, and
test the critical concepts and theories that comprise the supply chain management (SCM) …

Purpose Literature review articles have become a frequently applied research approach in
operations and supply chain management (SCM). The purpose of this paper aims to …

Purpose This paper aims to review logistics and supply chain management topics where
theories have been applied to better understand the supply chain management (SCM) …

Purpose The discussion of rigor vs relevance is an ongoing debate in academic
environment. Ambitions to fulfill one of these two objectives might not exclude the other …

Business academics have focused their attention on empirical investigation of programs'
effect on organizational competitive performance. These studies primarily emphasize theory …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is first, to summarize the findings from the book The New
Supply Chain Agenda (Slone, Dittmann, and Mentzer 2010). Second, it reviews associated …

Purpose–Theory is needed for a discipline to mature. This research aims to provide a
summary analysis of the theories being used in contemporary logistics and supply chain …