OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management is 5. 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
Larger, counter-intuitive and lasting – The PSM role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring opportunities for theoretical and actionable advances	112
Uniting partners to cope with environmental uncertainty: Disentangling the role of social capital in developing supply chain agility	110
Inclusive purchasing and supply chain resilience capabilities: Lessons for social sustainability	83
“Putting your money where your mouth is”: An empirical study on buyers’ preferences and willingness to pay for blockchain-enabled sustainable supply chain transparency	74
Retraction notice to “Ambidexterity and IT competence can improve supply chain flexibility? A resource orchestration approach” [J. Purch. Supply Manag. 26 (2020) 100610]	57
Rethinking purchasing and supply management education for sustainability and innovation challenges: Crafting a future-ready competency-based curriculum design	49
A decision framework for inventory- and equipment-based supply chain finance solutions	48
Moving Beyond the four walls: The evolving impact of supplier sustainability on firm value	44
Agility, adaptability, and alignment: new capabilities for PSM in a post-pandemic world	44
The role of risk management practices in IT service procurement: A case study from the financial services industry	44
Brave new procurement deals: An experimental study of how generative artificial intelligence reshapes buyer–supplier negotiations	42
The effectiveness of performance-based contracting in the defence sector: A systematic literature review	42
A Delphi study on the supply risk-mitigating effect of additive manufacturing during SARS-COV-2	36
Practice makes perfect: Using the total cost of ownership to teach global locational decision making	36
Political ties and information technology: Untangling their impact on supply chain social responsibility and sustainable performance	36
Text mining and network analytics for literature reviews: Exploring the landscape of purchasing and supply management research	34
Driving systemic change research within the PSM community	33
The impact of public procurement on the adoption of circular economy practices	33
How and when do purchasers successfully contribute to the implementation of circular purchasing: A comparative case-study	30
The role of blockchain technology in supply chain relationships: Balancing efficiency and relational dynamics	30
Editorial Board	29
Continuity in the face of disruptions: Purchasing and supply management Research's persistence amidst COVID-19	29
Supply network attention by SMEs – a theory elaborating study	26
The grey side of procurement: Measuring the prevalence of questionable purchasing practices	25
Use or nonuse? The role of possessed power and realized power on innovation	24

One crisis, different paths to supply resilience: The case of ventilator procurement for the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Editorial Board	21
Procurement and innovation risk management: How a public client managed to realize a radical green innovation in a civil engineering project	21
Scale development and validation of Transaction Cost Economics typology for contracts: A systems thinking approach	20
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in purchasing and supply management: A mixed-methods review of the state-of-the-art in literature and practice	20
Protect me not: The effect of tariffs on U.S. supply networks	20
The role of buyers justice in achieving socially sustainable global supply chains: A perspective of apparel suppliers and their workers	20
Understanding supplier motivation to engage in multiparty performance-based contracts: The lens of Expectancy theory	20
Humanizing supply chains: Turning the spotlight towards remediation in modern slavery scholarship	19
The supply chain financing ecosystem: Early responses during the COVID-19 crisis	19
Biodiversity management: A supply chain practice view	19
Practices and strategies for sustainability-related risk management in multi-tier supply chains	18
The impact of supplier dependence on suppliers' CSR: The moderating role of industrial dynamism and corporate transparency	17
Future business and the role of purchasing and supply management: Opportunities for ‘business-not-as-usual’ PSM research	17
Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system	17
Editorial Board	16
How online information search behavior and the role of tacit knowledge differ across clusters of purchase situations	16
Driven by supply chain ambidexterity. Substitutable and complementary effects of supply chain emergence and control on triadic relational performance	16
Reputational enablers for supplier diversity: An exploratory approach on the inclusion of war veterans and disabled people	15
On supplier resilience: How supplier performance, disruption frequency, and disruption duration are interrelated	15
Capturing the value creation in public procurement: A practice-based view	14
Getting back into the swing of things: The adaptive path of purchasing and supply management in enhancing supply chain resilience	13
Coordinating supplier-induced disruptions via governance mechanisms: Aligning coordination activities with coordinating requirements	13
When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?	12
Framing Sustainable Supply Chain Finance: how can supply chain sustainability practices and supply chain finance solutions be integrated?	12
Navigating the socio-technical impacts of purchasing digitalisation: A multiple-case study	11
Editorial Board	11
Weathering the tempest: Supply chain network position, natural disasters, and firm performance	11
Leveraging digital data spaces in purchasing and supply management: Paving the way to the circular economy exemplified by Catena-X	10
Supply chain disruption response and recovery: The role of power and governance	10
Developing design principles for the implementation of AI in PSM: An investigation with expert interviews	10
The impact of suppliers' CSR controversies on buyers' market value: The moderating role of social capital	10
Antecedents and performance outcomes of circular procurement: An empirical study in China	10
On what is being funded: A response to ‘“to fund” as a new purpose of supply chain management: Making a case for supply chain financing’ by Leuschner et al. (2023)	9
What drives managers to insource production? Evidence from a behavioural experiment	9
Editorial Board	9
A view from the eye of the storm: An analytic autoethnographic account of ventilator procurement during COVID-19 first wave	9
Editorial: Purchasing and innovation: Past, present and future of the field of research	9
Theory as an engine: Illuminating “white space” of the SCM system of knowledge production	8
The pandemic and SME supply chains: Learning from early experiences of SME suppliers in the U.S. defense industry	8
Design principles for corporate sustainability due Diligence: An investigation with expert interviews	8
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on problem-based learning approach in public procurement in the European Union	8
Base of the chain (BoC) sourcing challenges: The role of institutional voids and social agency problems	7
Can digital transformation improve firm resilience to supply chain disruption? The role of diversification strategies	7
Advancing purchasing as a design science: Publication guidelines to shift towards more relevant purchasing research	7
Improving sustainable supply chain performance through organisational culture: A competing values framework approach	7
Editorial Board	7
Creating resilient supply chains through a culture of measuring	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	6

Towards a theory of supplier embeddedness: Contextualized mechanisms, contingent conditions, interactive properties and unorthodox observations	6
Editorial Board	6
Gaining from disorder: Making the case for antifragility in purchasing and supply chain management	6
Guest Editorial: A purchasing and supply management view of supply resilience for better crisis response	6
Editorial Board	6
AI meets spend classification: A new frontier in information processing	6
Strategic adaptability negotiation training in purchasing and supply management: A multi-method instructional approach	6
“Love thy neighbor, but don’t pull down your hedge”: The influence of interdependence with major customers on supplier productivity	5
‘To fund’ as a new purpose of supply chain management: Making a case for supply chain financing	5
Improving resilience of the healthcare supply chain in a pandemic: Evidence from Europe during the COVID-19 crisis	5
Does purchasing recognition help or hinder purchasing quality performance in developing market SMEs? Effects of resource conditions	5