Additive manufacturing (AM) is regarded as a technology that has transformative and disruptive potential in nearly all industries. However, AM is not only about new production equipment and processes. Given the decreasing degree of vertical integration in many companies, suppliers add...

This study examined social system failures and sought to identify a plausible mechanism behind these failures. Stretched exponential distributions were observed for failure of marriages in the US, UK, and Germany. In addition, the study provides evidence of power laws in the failure of large...

In a globalized world, buying firms increasingly face criticism regarding sustainability‐related transgressions in their supply chains, yet scholarship concerning whether such negative press has any bottom‐line effects has only just begun emerging. This study develops and tests theory on the...