The state of the journal: Purchasing is strong
Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management2023
In their one-year retrospective as Editors-in-Chief (EIC) at the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (JPSM) Tate and Knight (2017:1) established a fundamental goal “… to maintain the upward trajectory of the quality and standing of the journal, building its contribution to the field and its international reputation”. With fear that we will be derivative of our predecessors, lacking the requisite novelty we seek in accepted manuscripts, we are adopting the same goal.
In the year since we have taken over, submissions are up from the year prior, citation metrics and other journal quality measures are continuing to climb, and JPSM maintains its place as a leading outlet for scientific research on purchasing and supply management. We are immensely grateful to Louise Knight for her guidance during the past year, and for sharing with us nuances associated with being editors. This past year together has allowed for a smoother transition between EIC teams, so that we can continue to build and develop the journal on the important achievements that have already been made. Furthermore, we are grateful to Louise for agreeing to stay on as Senior Associate Editor of the Journal. She will surely continue to contribute to the journal in significant ways.
In what follows, we lay out the progress that has been made in the past year, the changes that have been made, and the initiatives that we are advancing over the coming years.
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Guardians of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century: The Global Supply Chain Industry
Rutgers Business Review2022
The length and complexity, the number of geographically distributed firms, as well as the number of products that modern supply chains are tasked with delivering to consumers have grown exponentially over the past several decades. Regional supply chains have transformed into global ones with intellectual property and related proprietary information being dispersed across firms’ extended enterprises. Couple these trends with the increase in digitization and the larger presence of internet-enabled technologies, and the number of attack vectors for malevolent actors has outpaced potential protections and safeguards. Succinctly stated, supply chains are vulnerable to intellectual property theft. But questions remain, such as which parts of supply chains are the most vulnerable?
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Transitions, opportunities and challenges–Change and continuity at JPSM
Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management2022
Purchasing and supply management (PSM) scholarship is experiencing a significant expansion across numerous academic institutions around the globe and is attracting more attention from policy-makers than ever before. After nearly three decades since its inception, the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (JPSM) has stayed true to its founding purpose of advancing and fostering cutting edge research in the PSM discipline, in its broadest sense, and has pursued its mission to be the journal of choice among PSM scholars. This editorial is both retrospective, and prospective: it marks the transition of JPSM's leadership team. Outgoing and incoming Editors together provide an overview of what has been achieved during the past six years, offer perspectives on the journal policies and on growth opportunities, and discuss some critical areas for the evolution of PSM research.
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When the chickens come home to roost: The short‐versus long‐term performance implications of government contracting and supplier network structure
Journal of Business Logistics2023
The old adage “it is not what you know, but who you know” suggests that in connection(s) lies the key(s) to success. But what does success mean, and for how long will it last? What does the choice of partner, and network connections say about the performance implications of contracting, particularly in the case of a public–private partnership? With countries such as the United States accounting for the world's largest buyer (of any and everything), several suppliers eagerly await their opportunity to contract with large government entities, but is it always a wise decision? Such questions remain largely unexplored and require answers. This research provides answers to these questions by integrating congruence, and network theory to investigate how government contracting impacts private suppliers' financial performance and how suppliers' supply chain network connections moderate this relationship.
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Future business and the role of purchasing and supply management: Opportunities for ‘business-not-as-usual’ PSM research
Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management2022
The raison d'être for this article is simple: traditional ways of researching, theorizing, and practicing purchasing and supply management (PSM) are no longer sufficient to ‘meet the moment’. Scholars need to advance a “business-not-as-usual” footing approach to their work, if they are to make a meaningful contribution to addressing the current and future emergencies, as highlighted by recent extreme weather and the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, what can this, or should this, mean for a field rooted in traditional business thinking? This article builds on the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management's (JPSM) 25th Anniversary Special Issue editorial (2019); members of the JPSM's editorial team advance their unique perspectives on what “business-not-as-usual” means for PSM. Specifically, we advocate both thinking much more widely, in scope and ambition, than we currently do, and simultaneously building our ability to comprehend supply chains in a more nuanced and granular way.
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