Social enterprises are acquiring an increasingly relevant role as focal organizations for managing supply chains to address social problems. We argue that the presence of misaligned institutional logics between these focal organizations and their supply chain stakeholders generates tensions....

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a consolidated purchasing tool applied across different industries. However, in some cases existing models are not satisfactory. The paper addresses the case of the tinting industry supply chain, which is constituted as follows: manufacturers of colorant...

In modern companies, measuring and control suppliers’ performance is a difficult - but fundamental - task. The adoption of inappropriate supplier performance measurement systems can generate undesired supplier behaviors, that can negatively affect buyer (and supply chain) performance. This...