Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the processing of product returns at five case companies using a complex adaptive systems (CAS) logic to identify agent interactions, organization, schema, learning and the emergence of adaptations in the reverse supply chain....

Purpose: General theories have been criticized for their inability to explore the mechanics of more specific domain knowledge and understand how, when and where general theory applies to and extends domain knowledge in supply chain management (SCM). Middle-range theorizing (MRT) is a potential...

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) discipline identity. The purpose is threefold: to identify research topics in logistics and supply chain management where one...

Purpose: The authors explore complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory as an updated theoretical perspective for managing product returns that better matches the chaotic nature of recent consumer behaviors. CAS theory highlights the importance of agents who create and self-organize to help systems...

The importance of logistics in the new product development process is examined under the aegis of Logistics Early Involvement (LEI) and the basics of good management are presented in the light of their relevance to logistics executives.

The use of logistics as a tool with which to secure competitive advantage is revealed in two studies within the transportation sector. The first to evaluate the impact of deregulation and technology within transportation; the second study offering a “big” picture of third party logistics and...

Looks at different aspects of competitiveness emerging from this year′s new books – the international race for supremacy, the contribution of logistics towards commercial success, and benchmarking vis‐a‐vis both the company and the customer.

This paper introduces a new identification‐ and singularity‐robust conditional quasi‐likelihood ratio (SR‐CQLR) test and a new identification‐ and singularity‐robust Anderson and Rubin (1949) (SR‐AR) test for linear and nonlinear moment condition models. Both tests are very fast to...