OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Humanizing supply chains: Turning the spotlight towards remediation in modern slavery scholarship	107
Implementing PBC as a procurement strategy in the public sector: Understanding strategy-structure fit	101
Editorial Board	80
Interorganisational project dynamics: A longitudinal study of perceptual distance and client-contractor collaborative relationships	68
How to select a Supply Chain Finance solution?	55
Understanding the dynamics of global supply chain sustainability initiatives: The role of institutional distance from the buyer's perspective	48
Personality differences and buyer-supplier relationships: Psychopathy in executives, gender differences and implications for future research	43
Unveiling the circular procurement Nexus: A hierarchical examination of barriers, interrelationships, and strategic insights	42
The pandemic and SME supply chains: Learning from early experiences of SME suppliers in the U.S. defense industry	41
Total cost analysis in purchasing education: A two-step open-ended teaching case approach	40
Larger, counter-intuitive and lasting – The PSM role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring opportunities for theoretical and actionable advances	38
Investigating supply chain participants’ circular economy action effects on firm financial performance from a stakeholder theory perspective	38
Supplier selection with rank reversal in public tenders	33
From checking the box to driving impact – Perspectives on how to develop a supplier diversity program that is less narrowly scoped and more wholeheartedly adopted	30
Purchasing and supply management in humanitarian settings	29
“Putting your money where your mouth is”: An empirical study on buyers’ preferences and willingness to pay for blockchain-enabled sustainable supply chain transparency	29
Supplier relationship portfolio management: A social exchange perspective	29
The impact of supplier dependence on suppliers' CSR: The moderating role of industrial dynamism and corporate transparency	28
Biodiversity management: A supply chain practice view	28
Practices and strategies for sustainability-related risk management in multi-tier supply chains	24
Advancing Green Supply Chains Through Downstream Digitalization: An Information Processing Theory Perspective	24
What network and performance indicators can tell us about supply chain and sourcing resilience (and what they cannot)	24
Uniting partners to cope with environmental uncertainty: Disentangling the role of social capital in developing supply chain agility	22
Inclusive purchasing and supply chain resilience capabilities: Lessons for social sustainability	21
Editorial: From judge to jury: the potential for crowd reviewing	20

Exploring the circular economy paradigm: A natural resource-based view on supplier selection criteria	20
Closing the loop: The fundamental role of Purchasing and Supply Management in reaching a circular economy	19
Change agents’ cognitive maps of circular supply chain transition – An investigation of barriers, actions, and outcomes	19
A decision framework for inventory- and equipment-based supply chain finance solutions	19
Editorial Board	18
Editorial Board	18
The effectiveness of performance-based contracting in the defence sector: A systematic literature review	18
The role of risk management practices in IT service procurement: A case study from the financial services industry	17
The role of buyer and supplier knowledge stocks for supplier-led improvements in logistics outsourcing	17
Moving Beyond the four walls: The evolving impact of supplier sustainability on firm value	16
The impact of digital technology deployment on mitigating supply chain disruptions: Evidence from Chinese automotive manufacturers during the COVID-19 crisis	16
How online information search behavior and the role of tacit knowledge differ across clusters of purchase situations	15
Editorial Board	15
Determinants of supplier payment times before and during the pandemic: Empirical evidence from UK firms	14
Expanding the boundaries of buyer-supplier agency problems: Moving from dyad to triad	14
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on problem-based learning approach in public procurement in the European Union	13
Can Supply Chain Finance help mitigate the financial disruption brought by Covid-19?	12
Driven by supply chain ambidexterity. Substitutable and complementary effects of supply chain emergence and control on triadic relational performance	12
Retraction notice to “Ambidexterity and IT competence can improve supply chain flexibility? A resource orchestration approach” [J. Purch. Supply Manag. 26 (2020) 100610]	12
How to train supply managers – Necessary and sufficient purchasing skills leading to success	11
Barriers to circular economy: Insights from a small electric vehicle battery manufacturer	11
Rethinking purchasing and supply management education for sustainability and innovation challenges: Crafting a future-ready competency-based curriculum design	11
A contingency-configurational view of purchasing operations: The mediating role between supplier relationship and firm performance	11
Antecedents of changes in an organization's affiliation with group purchasing organization(s)	10
Theory as an engine: Illuminating “white space” of the SCM system of knowledge production	10
Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system	9
Agility, adaptability, and alignment: new capabilities for PSM in a post-pandemic world	9
Base of the chain (BoC) sourcing challenges: The role of institutional voids and social agency problems	8
Future business and the role of purchasing and supply management: Opportunities for ‘business-not-as-usual’ PSM research	8
Are gender diversity issues a hidden problem in logistics and supply chain management? Building research themes through a systematic literature review	8
Editorial Board	8
Understanding the governance of high-performing international buyer-supplier relationships in China using complexity-based contingencies	7
Managing customer attractiveness: How low-leverage customers mobilize critical supplier resources	7
Political ties and information technology: Untangling their impact on supply chain social responsibility and sustainable performance	7
Getting back into the swing of things: The adaptive path of purchasing and supply management in enhancing supply chain resilience	7
Editorial Board	7
The effects of bargaining power on trade credit in a supply network	6
Improving sustainable supply chain performance through organisational culture: A competing values framework approach	6
Robotic Process Automation in purchasing and supply management: A multiple case study on potentials, barriers, and implementation	6
Editorial Board	6
Advancing purchasing as a design science: Publication guidelines to shift towards more relevant purchasing research	6
Buyer-supplier collaboration: A macro, micro, and congruence perspective	6
Reputational enablers for supplier diversity: An exploratory approach on the inclusion of war veterans and disabled people	6
Capturing the value creation in public procurement: A practice-based view	6
Creating resilient supply chains through a culture of measuring	5
The impact of perceived buyer justice on the diverse supplier-buyer relationship building	5
On supplier resilience: How supplier performance, disruption frequency, and disruption duration are interrelated	5
Can digital transformation improve firm resilience to supply chain disruption? The role of diversification strategies	4
Editorial Board	4
When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?	4

Purchasing orchestration practices – Introducing a purchasing-innovation framework	4
Brave new procurement deals: An experimental study of how generative artificial intelligence Reshapes Buyer–Supplier negotiations	4
Driving systemic change research within the PSM community	4
Editorial Board	4
Going beyond supplier diversity to economic Inclusion:Where are we now and where do we go from here?	4
Coordinating supplier-induced disruptions via governance mechanisms: Aligning coordination activities with coordinating requirements	4
How and when do purchasers successfully contribute to the implementation of circular purchasing: A comparative case-study	4
Text mining and network analytics for literature reviews: Exploring the landscape of purchasing and supply management research	4