Best Supply Chain Paper

The ISM Best Supply Chain Paper Award is sponsored by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The selection process has four steps:

  1. The OSCM Division Program Chair nominates a set of four papers that are candidates for this award.
  2. These finalist papers are forwarded to the chair of ISM’s Education Resource Committee (ERC) for evaluation.
  3. The ERC reviews each finalist paper, selects the award winner, and designates the other 3 papers as “Runner Up”.
  4. The award winner is announced by the CEO of ISM at the AOM Annual Meeting.

 

Finalists for the award are selected by the OSCM Division Program Chair based on the ratings and comments received from AOM conference reviewers. The award winner is then chosen from these finalist papers by the ERC following a blind review process. The selection criteria are as follows:

  1. Significance of the paper to the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM);
  2. The extent to which the paper is interesting and managerially relevant;
  3. Theoretical contribution to SCM;
  4. Use of appropriate methodological rigor;
  5. Clarity of writing and/or presentation.


2024 ISM Best Supply Chain Paper Award

Winner: Coordinating supplier-induced disruptions through governance mechanisms

Juliette Engelhart (U. of British Columbia), Jens Roehrich (U. of Bath), Brian Squire (U. of Bath)




Finalists

Second-order learning by supplying

Lisha Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong U.; Xianwei Shi, Shanghai Jiao Tong 

Social sustainability and shareholder value: the role of complex supply networks

Christian Wagner, ETH Zürich; Christoph Schmidt, ETH Zurich; Stephan M. Wagner, ETH Zurich

Challenges in software-related buyer-supplier relationships

Myrna Hantke, U. of Mannheim; Christoph Bode, U. of Mannheim

Influence power of partners and the focal firm and digital knowledge diffusion in supply chain

Tianyu Gong, Tongji U.; Jingyu Li; Yi Hao, Tongji U.; Yuan Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong U 

2024 ISM Best Supply Chain Paper Award Winner Feature

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Past ISM Best Supply Chain Paper Awards

2023 Enrico Fontana, Cranfield School of Management; Mohammad Atif, EDC Paris Business School: "Sub-suppliers’ Customer Share of Production and Sustainability Compliance in Apparel Supply Chains"

2022     Jesus Diego Castillo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Maria J. Montes-Sancho, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Zhaohui Wu, Oregon State University "Cognitive and Structural Embeddedness of the Supply Base: Effects on Buyer Profitability"

2021     Pankaj Kumar, Agnieszka Nowinska, Hans-Joachim Schramm "Supplier’s Network Churn, Buyer-Supplier Embeddedness, and Transaction Price Outcomes"

2020     Yanji Duan, University of North Florida; Christian Hofer, University of Arkansas; John Aloysius, University of Arkansas "Transparency in the Supply Chain: Do Firms Benefit by Disclosing Supplier Monitoring Activities?"

2019     Marcus A. Bellamy, Boston U., Suvrat Dhanorkar, PSU, Ravi Subramanian, Georgia Institute of Technology “Supply Chain Network Structure and Environmental Information Disclosure”

2018     Henrik Franke, German Graduate School of Management and Law; Kai Foerstl, German Graduate School of Management and Law "How Rational are Sourcing Teams? The Effect of Goals and Knowledge on Politics and Rationality"