Call for Papers: EDI 2021: Leveraging Multiple Types of Resources within the Supply Chain Network for Competitive Advantage
The purpose of this EDI is to encourage a re-examination of how a firm can leverage resources within its supply chain network to enhance its competitive advantage via both market and non-market based competitive actions. For example, Apple Corporation is able to engage in highly successful product competition with firms such as Samsung because its supply chain network has the needed resources to design, manufacture and bring the firm’s products to market faster than its rivals. Therefore, this EDI is particularly interested in submissions that adopt a competitive dynamics perspective to investigate the role of supply chain networks on firm-level competitive moves and countermoves (Grimm, Lee, and Smith, 2006; Hofer, Cantor, and Dai, 2012). Examples of competitive moves and counter-moves include pricing actions, marketing and advertising actions, facility expansion actions, new product innovation actions (e.g., Ferrier, Smith and Grimm, 1999). Increasingly, firms are also engaging in non-market competitive moves such as political lobbying actions as a way to take a proactive posture towards the public policy environment (e.g., Oliver & Holzinger, 2008).
The Full details can be accessed here: EDI 2021
Timeline
June 2021 - Initial call for submissions
June 2021 - December 2022 - EDI submissions, as well as regular submissions, are welcomed and will be processed upon submission.
January 2022 - Invited papers will appear online, to initiate the discourse.
January 2022 - December 2022: EDI papers will be published, as accepted.
Please direct queries to any of JSCM’s co-editors: Mark Pagell (mark.pagell@ucd.ie), David Cantor (dcantor@iastate.edu), or Tingting Yan (tingting.yan@wayne.edu).
Below are some helpful links related to what an EDI is and a note from our Co-Editors discussing one of our previous EDI.
From the Editors—Introducing JSCM's First Emerging Discourse Incubator for 2018/19