Handbook of Theories for Purchasing, Supply Chain and Management Research

Edited by Wendy L. Tate, William J. Taylor Professor of Business and Ray and Joan Myatt Faculty Research Fellow, Department of Supply Chain Management, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Lisa M. Ellram, University Distinguished Professor and Rees Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, Farmer School of Business, Miami University, US and Lydia Bals, Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management, Mainz University of Applied Sciences, External Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, EBS Universität, Germany and Visiting Scholar, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook of Theories for Purchasing, Supply Chainand Management Research 1Wendy L. Tate, Lisa M. Ellram and Lydia Bals2 Foundations of theory 12Barbara B. Flynn, Mark Pagell, Brian Fugate and David E. Cantor3 Developing purchasing and supply management theory 29Mark Pagell, Barbara B. Flynn, Brian Fugate and David E. Cantor4 Theories relevant to purchasing and supply management research:status quo and future suggestions 48Larry Giunipero and Reham Eltantawy5 Systems levels in purchasing and supply chain management (PSCM)research: exploring established and novel theories to address PSCMproblems and challenges 63Christine M. Harland and Jens K. Roehrich6 Enhancing theorizing in purchasing and supply management throughmiddle-range theories 80Jenny Bäckstrand and Árni Halldórsson7 Transaction cost economics 94Wendy L. Tate and Lisa M. Ellram8 Resource-based view 106Lydia Bals and Eugenia Rosca9 The knowledge-based view 118Tobias Schoenherr10 Resource-advantage theory 140Donna F. Davis and Teresa M. McCarthy-Byrne11 Resource and natural resource dependence theories in supply chains 153Lojain Alkhuzaim, Mahtab Kouhizadeh and Joseph Sarkis12 Resource orchestration: managers’ role in developing and deployingresources to create distinctive advantage 168Stan E. Fawcett, Yao ‘Henry’ Jin, Sebastian Brockhaus, Diego Vega andAmydee M. Fawcett13 Agency theory in purchasing and supply management 186George A. Zsidisin14 Playing to win: applying game theory to purchasing and supply management 199Steven Carnovale and Myles D. Garvey15 Paradox theory 221Sajad Fayezi16 Contingency theory and the information processing view 248Virpi Turkulainen17 Social exchange theory 267Carl Marcus Wallenburg and Robert Handfield18 The relational view 283Feigao (Kelly) Huang, Eugena Rosca, Lydia Bals and Wendy Tate19 Supply networks: dyads, triads and networks 295Zhaohui Wu and Thomas Y. Choi20 Stakeholder theory 310Gyöngyi Kovács21 Institutional theory 320Katri Kauppi22 Complex adaptive systems 335Kevin J. Dooley23 Factor market rivalry: a general theory of supply chain management 345Peter M. Ralston, Matthew A. Schwieterman and John E. Bell24 The industrial network approach and purchasing and supplymanagement research 360Björn Axelsson, Lars-Erik Gadde and Finn Wynstra25 Dynamic capabilities theory 378Anna Land, Tim Gruchmann, Erik Siems and Philip Beske-Janssen26 Supply chains as complex adaptive systems 399Anurag Tewari and Richard Wilding27 Cluster theory and purchasing science: geographical proximity asa strategic decision factor in sourcing 412Holger Schiele28 Organizational learning theory and its application to purchasingmanagement and supply chain management research 425Arash Azadegan and Javad Feizabadi29 Signalling theory 445Christian von Deimling, Michael Eßig and Andreas H. Glas30 Portfolio theory 471Cees J. Gelderman31 Supply chains as dynamic socio-technical systems 491John Gattorna and William Pasmore32 Panarchy theory 502Amanda Bille and Andreas Wieland33 Preferred customer theory: benefiting from preferential treatment fromsuppliers through measures on buyer attractiveness and supplier satisfaction 515Holger Schiele34 On theories for researching sustainability 531Thomas E. Johnsen and Federico CaniatoIndex

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