Wiley

Journal Of Supply Chain Management

(ISSN 1745-493X)

Overview

The Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) was launched as the International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management in 1965. Like its title, the Journal’s mission has consistently adapted to reflect the changing nature of the discipline. Our global economic system is facing an unprecedented transformation and supply chains play a key role in this journey. Therefore, JSCM is the journal of choice among supply chain management scholars by attracting high-quality, high-impact empirical research focusing on theory building and empirical methodologies. As a global journal, the Journal welcomes submissions from researchers with a diversity of demographic (i.e. gender, nationality, etc.) and professional (i.e. university, academic discipline, research methodologies, etc.) backgrounds. JSCM welcomes inter-disciplinary studies that push the boundaries of knowledge by focusing on emerging phenomena and/or using novel approaches to examine established phenomena.

Research published in the Journal should:

Extend or test existing theoretical bases or develop new theories in supply chain management;

Use rigorous empirical methods; and

Create useful knowledge that could improve practice, policy and/or social-ecological systems.

Aims and Scope

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Journal of Supply Chain Management is to be the journal of choice among supply chain management scholars across disciplines, by attracting high-quality, high-impact behavioral research focusing on theory building and empirical methodologies. Research should…

> Extend or test existing theoretical bases in supply management or contribute to theory building in supply chain management;

> Use rigorous empirical methodologies and analyses which address the multiple dimensions of validity; and

> Clarify and enhance understanding of the role of various aspects of supply chain management in the global competitiveness of organizations.

CRITERIA FOR PUBLICATION

An article published in JSCM is expected to make contributions in three areas. First, it must make a strong contribution to supply chain management theory. This contribution can occur through an inductive, theory-building process, a deductive, theory-testing approach, or an abductive theory elaboration approach. All of these approaches can occur in a variety of ways including, falsification of conventional understanding, theory-building through inductive or qualitative research, empirical testing of a theory, theoretically based meta-analysis, constructive replication that clarifies the boundaries or range of a theory, interpretive approaches, or social-constructionist studies. Manuscripts should explicitly convey the theoretical contribution relative to the existing supply chain management literature and, where appropriate, the existing literature outside of the supply chain management discipline (for example, management theory, psychology, economics, ecology).

Second, supply chains function within larger social-ecological systems. Therefore, research published in JSCM is expected to make contributions that positively impact these systems (e.g., the environment, communities, workers, governance). Research published in the journal is also expected to produce useful knowledge for managers, policy makers or both. Hence, the third area where research published in JSCM is expected to contribute is to practice and/or policy. For example, a manuscript addressing the implications of novel supply chain practices in the context of climate crisis should also articulate contributions to policy and social-ecological systems. With the exception of conceptual articles, these contributions need to be based on the empirical results, not conjecture.

While all manuscripts are expected to contribute to theory, not every paper will be able to contribute to social-ecological systems, practice and policy. For instance, an article on supply network structure would be unlikely to make contributions to policy. However, research that could have contributed to social-ecological systems, practice or policy and did not, would have limitations. For example a manuscript that measured only the financial implications of novel supply chain practices without empirically exploring the impact of these practices on policy or social-ecological systems would have limitations. These limitations must at a minimum be acknowledged and preferably justified for the article to be published in JSCM.

Empirical manuscripts published in JSCM must use a robust research design that is appropriate for answering the research question. For most empirical manuscripts, whether quantitative or qualitative, authors must adequately assess validity, the sine qua non of empirical research. All empirical methodologies, be they quantitative, qualitative or a combination of both, are welcome. Finally, while purely conceptual manuscripts are welcomed, the expectation is that these articles will substantially advance theory in the discipline of supply chain management.

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