OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Operations & Production Management is 19. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Contingency role of a Supplier's operational efficiency in the customer relationship – performance links	150
Improving group problem solving through awareness of members’ problem-solving preferences	129
How leadership for Quality 4.0 affects thriving at work: a multilevel study from the identification perspective	117
(Un)Learning sustainability practices in a multi-tiered supply chain: an interpretive study	113
Impact pathways: managing relational risk in project operations	102
Project managers' reactions to project disruption: sponsor actions versus environmental uncertainty	92
Making agency theory work for supply chain relationships: a systematic review across four disciplines	89
The impact of corporate support programs on environmental and social innovation: empirical insights from the food and beverage industry	80
Developing a learning-to-learn capability: insights on conditions for Industry 4.0 adoption	79
Achieving resilient supply chains: managing temporary healthcare supply chains during a geopolitical disruption	78
Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations	77
Effects of supply chain quality event announcements on stock market reaction: an empirical study from China	73
Do more concentrated supplier portfolios benefit firm innovation? The moderating roles of financial slack and growth opportunities	73
Do ride-hailing drivers' psychological behaviors influence operational performance?	71
How do governmental wage subsidies enhance SME resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic?	69
Let's talk about it: the impact of nurses' implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care	69
Bridging sustainability knowledge management and supply chain learning: evidence through buyer selection	63
Leveraging the circular economy with a closed-loop supply chain and a reverse omnichannel using blockchain technology and incentives	60
Fostering workplace safety with a gender-diverse workforce	57
What are the root causes of material delivery schedule inaccuracy in supply chains?	57
How do customers’ environmental efforts diffuse to suppliers: the role of customers’ characteristics and suppliers’ digital technology capability	55
Coordinating multi-level collective action: how intermediaries and digital governance can help supply chains tackle grand challenges	54
Sociopolitical and financial goals in state-owned manufacturers' expansion of production capacity: evidence from China	54
Guest editorial: The 6th world conference on production and operations management	52
How do engineering suppliers create project value for buyers? A micro-foundational perspective	51

Modelling ragpickers’ productivity at the bottom of the pyramid: the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs)	50
The spillover effects of supply chain corruption practices on stock returns	44
The role of absorptive capacity in the adoption of Smart Manufacturing	43
Linking government interventions to firm performance: the influence of stringency and support during the COVID-19 pandemic	43
Breaking the mould: achieving high-volume production output with additive manufacturing	43
Additive manufacturing in the medical sector: from an empirical investigation of challenges and opportunities toward the design of an ecosystem model	42
Supplier–supplier coopetition and buyer innovation: a perspective of learning and competitive tension within the focal buyer's supplier network	42
Preparing supply chain for the next disruption beyond COVID-19: managerial antecedents of supply chain resilience	39
Supply chain network structures and firm financial performance: the moderating role of international relations	37
Unboxing product returns: What drives return policy leniency in the fashion industry?	37
Guest editorialEmerging research and future pathways in digital supply chain governance	37
Testing service infusion in manufacturing through machine learning techniques: looking back and forward	36
Impact pathways: unravelling the hybrid food supply chain – identifying the relationships and processes to drive change	35
Impact pathways: improving supply chain sustainability by due diligence acts? Insights from a German case	35
Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case	34
Lean supply chain management: a contextual contingent reconceptualization and Delphi method study	33
Global value chains, trade facilitation and the use of environmental management practices in SMEs	33
Complex supply chain structures and multi-scope GHG emissions: the moderation effect of reducing equivocality	33
How to empower analytics capability to tackle emergency situations?	32
Balancing structural IT capabilities for organizational agility in digital transformation: a resource orchestration view	32
The roles of performance measurement and management in the development and implementation of business ecosystem strategies	30
Navigating through geopolitical risk: the role of supply chain concentration	30
Guest editorial: EurOMA 2023 – a systems lens on operations	30
Impact pathways: walking a tightrope—unveiling the paradoxes of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in sales and operations planning	30
Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives	29
How does supplier digitalization improve customer resource allocation efficiency? The role of supply chain entrainment	29
Using not-for-profit innovation networks to transition new technologies across the valley of death	29
Front- and back-end employee satisfaction during service transition	29
Service modularity in e-learning programs: an analysis from the perceived usefulness perspective	29
The metaverse as a breakthrough for operations and supply chain management: implications and call for action	28
Understanding competition, cooperation and their interplay in supplier network: implication on manufacturer’s innovation	28
How performance measurement systems enable or hinder organizational ambidexterity	28
Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?	28
Impact pathways: technology-aided supply chain planning for resilience	28
To complete or terminate smart manufacturing projects: a prospect theory perspective	28
From supply chain learning to the learning supply chain: drivers, processes, complexity, trade-offs and challenges	27
Does organizational readiness matter in lean thinking practices? An agency perspective	27
Are common directors guilty of corporate fraud contagion from the customer side?	27
Tuning value chains for better signals in the post-COVID era: vaccine supply chain concerns	27
The relational focus of small and medium sized actors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF)	27
The effects of performance measurement system uses on organizational ambidexterity and firm performance	26
Swimming against the tide: supplier bridging roles in diffusing sustainability upstream and downstream in supply networks	26
Exploring the application of blockchain to humanitarian supply chains: insights from Humanitarian Supply Blockchain pilot project	26
Configurations of financing instruments for supply chain cost reduction: evidence from Chinese manufacturing companies	25
Why project managers’ knowledge hiding is harmful to NPD projects: resilient team resource caravans as an explanatory mechanism	25
Sustainability of transport and logistics companies: an empirical evidence from a developing country	25
Carbon neutral announcements and Chinese stock market reaction: a supply chain network-based perspective	25
Supplier selection at the base of the chain: navigating competing institutional logics for shared mutual value	24
Effects of supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 on shareholder value	24
Toward a moral approach to stakeholder management: insights from the inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in the operations of social enterprises	24

Social enterprises in supply chains: driving systemic change through social impact	24
Direct and mediation effect of supply chain complexity drivers on supply chain performance: an empirical evidence of organizational complexity theory	24
Publisher’s note	24
Public procurement as an attractive customer: a supplier perspective	24
The interplay of integration, flexibility and coordination: a dynamic capability view to responding environmental uncertainty	24
Institutionalization of a collaborative governance model to deliver large, inter-organizational projects	23
More or complex actions? Effects of supply networks on firms' competitive aggressiveness	23
Realizing operational and innovation benefits in buyer–supplier relationships: the role of close ties to the partner's partners	23
Beyond Industry 4.0 – integrating Lean, digital technologies and people	23
Supply chains' sustainability trajectories and resilience: a learning perspective in turbulent environments	22
The role of digital technologies in configuring circular ecosystems	22
Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions	22
Publisher’s note	21
Informal governance in the digital transformation	21
Is there a theory of supply chain resilience? A bibliometric analysis of the literature	21
A chief supply chain officer matters – but only when you are in trouble!	21
Embracing supply base complexity: the contingency role of strategic purchasing	21
Guest editorial	21
The impact of abandoning social responsibility certifications: evidence from the decertification of SA8000 standard	20
Navigating supply chain disruptions: a purchasing portfolio matrix analysis of Chinese manufacturing SMEs in the context of COVID-19	20
Role of personal anxiety in individual kaizen behaviour and performance: evidence from Japan	20
Supply chain design for industrial additive manufacturing	20
Theorising circular economy and sustainable operations and supply chain management: a sustainability-dominant logic	19
Examining the link between integrated management systems and firm performance: do the integration strategies matter?	19
Impact pathways: the hidden challenges of Scope 3 emissions measurement and management	19
Capability configurations for successful advanced servitization	19
Paradoxical tensions impacting small-series production implementation in high-cost contexts: insights from the EU apparel industry	19
Service supply chain resilience: a social-ecological perspective on last-mile delivery operations	19
To err is human: developing error competence and driving innovation in manufacturing operations	19