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A Systematic Literature Review of Supply Chain Resilience in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A call for further research (2020)
Journal Article
Bak, O., Shaw, S., Colicchia, C., & Kumar, V. (in press). A Systematic Literature Review of Supply Chain Resilience in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A call for further research. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management,

With the increased disruptions faced by businesses and the occurrence of natural disasters in the world, supply chain resilience remains a major challenge especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Despite the relevance of SMEs to the... Read More about A Systematic Literature Review of Supply Chain Resilience in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A call for further research.

Information sharing in supply chains: a review of risks and opportunities using the Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA) (2018)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., Noè, C., & Strozzi, F. (2019). Information sharing in supply chains: a review of risks and opportunities using the Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA). Supply chain management, 24(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-01-2018-0003

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the most important research areas on information sharing in supply chains and related risks, taking into account their evolution over time. This paper sheds light on what is happening tod... Read More about Information sharing in supply chains: a review of risks and opportunities using the Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA).

Managing cyber and information risks in supply chains: insights from an exploratory analysis (2018)
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Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., & Menachof, D. A. (2019). Managing cyber and information risks in supply chains: insights from an exploratory analysis. Supply chain management, 24(2), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-09-2017-0289

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how companies approach the management of cyber and information risks in their supply chain, what initiatives they adopt to this aim, and to what extent along the supply chain. In fact, the increasing le... Read More about Managing cyber and information risks in supply chains: insights from an exploratory analysis.

The impact of supplier sustainability risk on shareholder value (2018)
Journal Article
Kim, S., Wagner, S. M., & Colicchia, C. (2019). The impact of supplier sustainability risk on shareholder value. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 55(1), 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12188

Business scandals like sweatshop labor have received growing attention in the field of supply management. Yet little is known about how detrimental such scandals are to buying firms. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the magnitude of the... Read More about The impact of supplier sustainability risk on shareholder value.

An empirical analysis of supply and manufacturing risk and business performance: a Chinese manufacturing supply chain perspective (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, V., Bak, O., Guo, R., Shaw, S. L., Colicchia, C., Garza-Reyes, J. A., & Kumari, A. (2018). An empirical analysis of supply and manufacturing risk and business performance: a Chinese manufacturing supply chain perspective. Supply chain management, 23(6), 461-479. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-10-2017-0319

Purpose: This study aims to explore the importance and impact of supply and manufacturing risk management upon business performance within the context of Chinese manufacturing supply chains. Design/methodology/approach: A two-phased multi-method appr... Read More about An empirical analysis of supply and manufacturing risk and business performance: a Chinese manufacturing supply chain perspective.

Literature review on the ‘Smart Factory’ concept using bibliometric tools (2017)
Journal Article
Strozzi, F., Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., & Noè, C. (2017). Literature review on the ‘Smart Factory’ concept using bibliometric tools. International Journal of Production Research, 55(22), 6572-6591. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2017.1326643

The objective of this paper is to depict a landscape of the scientific literature on the concept of the ‘Smart Factory’, which in recent years is gaining more and more attention from academics and practitioners because of significant innovations in t... Read More about Literature review on the ‘Smart Factory’ concept using bibliometric tools.

Is environmental sustainability a strategic priority for logistics service providers? (2017)
Journal Article
Evangelista, P., Colicchia, C., & Creazza, A. (2017). Is environmental sustainability a strategic priority for logistics service providers?. Journal of environmental management, 198(1), 353-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.04.096

Despite an increasing number of third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) regard environmental sustainability as a key area of management, there is still great uncertainty on how 3PLs implement environmental strategies and on how they translate... Read More about Is environmental sustainability a strategic priority for logistics service providers?.

Lean and green supply chain management through intermodal transport: insights from the fast moving consumer goods industry (2017)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., & Dallari, F. (2017). Lean and green supply chain management through intermodal transport: insights from the fast moving consumer goods industry. Production planning & control, 28(4), 321-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2017.1282642

Combining efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability is crucial for companies to succeed in today’s context of fierce competition. This paper investigates how intermodal transport can be adopted for managing supply chains according to a Lean and Gr... Read More about Lean and green supply chain management through intermodal transport: insights from the fast moving consumer goods industry.

Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education (2017)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., & Strozzi, F. (2018). Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education. Studies in higher education, 43(9), 1637-1653. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1276550

Continuous improvement in Higher Education can be supported by effective literature reviews to unveil contemporary and current educational needs and lay the foundations of programmes of study. As no discipline remains static, the aim of this paper is... Read More about Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education.

Ethical sourcing : an analysis of the literature and implications for future research (2016)
Journal Article
Kim, S., Colicchia, C., & Menachof, D. (2018). Ethical sourcing : an analysis of the literature and implications for future research. Journal of Business Ethics, 152(4), 1033–1052. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3266-8

The purpose of this study is to present a rigorous, focused review on how this field of ethical sourcing research has grown and evolved over the decades, providing implications for future research. We combine two research methodologies in this study:... Read More about Ethical sourcing : an analysis of the literature and implications for future research.

Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study (2015)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., Dallari, F., & Melacini, M. (2016). Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study. Production planning & control, 27(3), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2015.1090030

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper presents a supply chain network design framework that is based on multi-objective mathematical programming and that can identify 'eco-efficient' configuration alternatives that are both efficient and ecologically... Read More about Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study.

Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management (2015)
Journal Article
Strozzi, F., & Colicchia, C. (2015). Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management. Journal of Scientometric Research JSCIRES ; official publication of SciBiolMed.Org, 4(3), 195-205. https://doi.org/10.4103/2320-0057.174860

The field of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has recently gained considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. This has caused an exponential growth in the number of publications related to different aspects of sustainability in... Read More about Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management.

Designing the venue logistics management operations for a World Exposition (2014)
Journal Article
Creazza, A., Colicchia, C., & Dallari, F. (2015). Designing the venue logistics management operations for a World Exposition. Production planning & control, 26(7), 543-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2014.929190

World Expositions, due to their size and peculiar features, pose a number of logistics challenges. This paper aims at developing a design framework for the venue logistics management (VLM) operations to replenish food products to the event site, thro... Read More about Designing the venue logistics management operations for a World Exposition.

The logistics service providers in eco-efficiency innovation: An empirical study (2013)
Journal Article
Rossi, S., Colicchia, C., Cozzolino, A., & Christopher, M. (2013). The logistics service providers in eco-efficiency innovation: An empirical study. Supply chain management, 18(6), 583-603. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-02-2012-0053

Purpose: Sustainability and the search for solutions that are both efficient and ecologically sound (eco-efficient) have become topics of great interest. However, companies seeking to develop supply chain solutions that are eco-efficient are often ha... Read More about The logistics service providers in eco-efficiency innovation: An empirical study.

Supply chain risk management: a new methodology for a systematic literature review (2012)
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Strozzi, F., & Colicchia, C. (2012). Supply chain risk management: a new methodology for a systematic literature review. Supply chain management, 17(4), 403-418. https://doi.org/10.1108/13598541211246558

Purpose perspective and as a research area. Given the relevance of the topic, the aim of the present paper is to present a focused literature review, investigating the process of knowledge creation, transfer and development from a dynamic perspective... Read More about Supply chain risk management: a new methodology for a systematic literature review.

A simulation-based framework to evaluate strategies for managing global inbound supply risk (2011)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Dallari, F., & Melacini, M. (2011). A simulation-based framework to evaluate strategies for managing global inbound supply risk. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 14(6), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2011.644270

Supply chain risk management(SCRM)has emerged as an issue of critical importance for today’s globalised supply chains. This topic still presents obstacles in practice, especially in terms of evaluating alternatives for managing risks. Therefore, the... Read More about A simulation-based framework to evaluate strategies for managing global inbound supply risk.

Increasing supply chain resilience in a global sourcing context (2010)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Dallari, F., & Melacini, M. (2010). Increasing supply chain resilience in a global sourcing context. Production planning & control, 21(7), 680-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537280903551969

Managing risk has emerged as an issue of critical importance for today’s globalised supply chains. This article focuses on inbound supply risk in a global sourcing context, where increased distances between sources of supply and final markets add unc... Read More about Increasing supply chain resilience in a global sourcing context.

Building environmental sustainability : empirical evidence from Logistics Service Providers
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Marchet, G., Melacini, M., & Perotti, S. Building environmental sustainability : empirical evidence from Logistics Service Providers. Journal of cleaner production, 59, 197-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.06.057

Environmental sustainability has recently become more and more of a concern among both academics and practitioners. In particular logistics services operations can play a significant role in reducing the environmental burden of the supply chain. Alth... Read More about Building environmental sustainability : empirical evidence from Logistics Service Providers.