Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Is There a Right Research Design for Your Supply Chain Study?

   • Stefan Seuring, Martin Müller, Gerald Reiner, Herbert Kotzab

   Pages 1-12

3. Substantive Justification for Theory Building

   1. A Balanced Approach to Research in Supply Chain Management

      • Susan L. Golicic, Donna F. Davis, Teresa M. McCarthy

      Pages 15-29

   2. A Critical Discussion on the Theoretical and Methodological Advancements in Supply Chain Integration Research

      • Dirk Pieter van Donk, Taco van der Vaart

      Pages 31-46

   3. Measuring Supply Chain Integration — Using the Q-Sort Technique

      • Sakun Boon-itt, Himangshu Paul

      Pages 47-58

   4. Supply Chain Management and the Challenge of Organizational Complexity — Methodological Considerations

      • Stig Johannessen

      Pages 59-73

   5. The Configurational Approach in Supply Chain Management

      • Axel Neher

      Pages 75-89

   6. Conducting a Literature Review — The Example of Sustainability in Supply Chains

      • Stefan Seuring, Martin Müller, Magnus Westhaus, Romy Morana

      Pages 91-106

   7. Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management — What Do We Know?

      • Árni Halldórsson, Jan Stentoft Arlbjørn

      Pages 107-122

4. Surveys in Supply Chain Management

   1. The Role and Importance of Survey Research in the Field of Supply Chain Management

      • Herbert Kotzab

      Pages 125-137

   2. Web-based Surveys in Logistics Research: An Empirical Application

      • David B. Grant, Christoph Teller, Wolfgang Teller

      Pages 139-154

   3. SCM Research Methodologies: Employing Structural Equation Modeling

      • Cristina Gimenez, Rudolf Large, Eva Ventura

      Pages 155-170

   4. Structural Equation Modeling as a Basis for Theory Development within Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research

      • Carl Marcus Wallenburg, Jürgen Weber

      Pages 171-186

   5. Customers’ Perceptions of Service Quality by TPL Service Providers in the United Kingdom — A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

      • Harlina Suzana Jaafar, Mohammed Rafiq

      Pages 187-202

   6. Third Party Logistics in Thailand — From the Users’ Perspective

      • Pornpen Setthakaset, Chuda Basnet

      Pages 203-218

   7. A Market-Oriented View of SCM — Researching Criteria and Instruments in the Public Procurement Process

      • Edeltraud Günther, Ines Klauke

      Pages 219-232

5. Case Study Research in Supply Chains

   1. Case Study Research in Supply Chains — An Outline and Three Examples

      • Stefan Seuring

      Pages 235-250

   2. A Proposal for Case Study Methodology in Supply Chain Integration Research

      • Teresa M. McCarthy, Susan L. Golicic

      Pages 251-266

   3. Using Case Study Methods in Researching Supply Chains

      • Marie Koulikoff-Souviron, Alan Harrison

      Pages 267-282

   4. Multilevel Issues in Supply Chain Management

      • Marian Oosterhuis, Eric Molleman, Taco van der Vaart

      Pages 283-297

For reseach in all subjects and among different philisopical paradigms, research methodologies form one of the key issues to rely on. This volume brings a series of papers together, which present different research methodologies as applied in supply chain management. This comprises review oriented papers that look at what kind of methodologies have been applied, as well as methodological papers discussing new developments needed to successfully conduct research in supply chain management. The third group is made up of applications of the respective methodologies, which serve as examples on how the different methodological approaches can be applied. All papers have undergone a review process to ensure their quality. Therefore, we hope that this book will serve as a valid source for current and future researchers in the field. While the workshop on “Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management” took place at the Supply Chain Management Center, Carl von Ossietzky Univ- sity in Oldenburg, Germany, it is based on a collaboration with the Supply Chain Management Group of the Department of Operations Management at the Cop- hagen Business School and the Department of Production Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. We would like to thank all those who contributed to the workshop and this book.

• Global Operations
• Research Methodology
• Supply Chains
• logistics
• management
• network management
• supply chain
• supply chain management

• Department of Operations Management SCM-Group, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

  Herbert Kotzab

• Supply Chain Management Center, Institute of Business Adaministration, Oldenburg, Germany

  Stefan Seuring, Martin Müller

• Department of Production Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria

  Gerald Reiner

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