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Assistant Professor of Operations Management, @msmatambs.bsky.social, @manchester.ac.uk Researching, teaching, & writing about Collaboration, Technology, & Behaviour in Project-, Service-, & Supply Networks to drive social value.
This paper is now published in the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM; ABS 4). Thank you so much to the EiCs, Guest Editors, reviewers, and everyone who read our previous drafts and helped us improve along the way. Here's the link:
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2. For decomposable problems, adopt multisourcing with clear SLAs; adopt single sourcing with stronger integration for nearly-decomposable problems; and finallly, combine in house expertise and tech partners with consensus-oriented routines for exploratory/non-decomposable problems.
1. Match governance to technology-problem type. Treat alignment as ongoing orchestration with regular reviews, clear escalation routes, and boundary-spanning T-shaped managers.
In a longitudinal study of a multinational bank, we trace how work was decomposed/recomposed across in-house teams and external partners, and how sourcing shifted between single-, multi-, and concurrent (“do-&-buy”) modes.
Some key takeaways:
Hot off the press! If you care about technology sourcing and governance, this new paper by myself and Professor @opsprof.bsky.social might help!
#TechSourcing #TechGovernance #BehavioralStrategy #Strategy #ProblemSolving #CategoryManagement #SourcingStrategy #Outsourcing #Projects #Orchestration
Many thanks to everyone who joined and contributed! Here’s to a productive and inspiring year ahead!
#HigherEducation #AcademicCommunity #AMBS #OriginalThinkingApplied
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Yesterday, colleagues from the Management Sciences & Marketing (MSM) Division @alliancembs.bsky.social gathered at the Hyatt Regency Manchester for our Away Day.
Under the leadership of our new HoD, Prof Michelle Carter, we kickstarted the academic year, & reflected on our vision for the future.
So true! Patience is the key I suppose!
Maybe I’m not using this site to its fullest potential, but I do miss the time when I used to engage with #academictwitter in the pre-X days. Twitter used to be my preferred engagement platform, not LinkedIn. I guess BSky hasn’t been adopted on that level. Miss the old close-knit community feeling.
Some interesting stuff around contracts, projects, manufacturing, capability, domestic vs global, supply chains, PPPs, and conflict.
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Hope you find this useful! If you do dive in, and let’s keep advancing inclusive, impactful supply chains!
#SupplierDiversity #EDI #SupplyChains #SocialValue #Justice #CSR #Reputation
Thank you everyone for their contributions, and huge thanks to Steven Carnovale and Carmela Di Mauro for their incredible support towards this.
The editorial also provides a practical roadmap for future research and practice, structured around foundational, operational, mediating, and outcome-based mechanisms.
Finally, an editorial piece written by us (w/ Ying Yang, and Frank Wiengarten), where we theorise SDI as a multi-level phenomenon, and offer a theory-informed research agenda that spans individual, organisational, and inter-organisational dynamics.
4. Inclusion=reputatation? Think again: A study by Camila L., Mauro Nunes, & Jose A. D. Machuca finds that including war veterans & disabled people in supplier diversity programs does not improve stakeholder perceptions. A must-read for those interested in the reputational dimensions of EDI
3. Fairness perceptions matter: A study by Feigao Huang, Wendy Tate, and Andrea Sordi, revealed that diverse suppliers are more committed when they perceive buyers as fair. Interestingly, procedural fairness (being treated “the same”) can backfire!
2. Mind the gender gap: A systematic review by Biao Yang, Nachiappan Subramanian, and Shaima Al-Harthy, PhD highlights the fragmented state of gender diversity research in SCM and why we urgently need more!
1. Beyond checkbox compliance: A multiple case study by Remko Van Hoek, Antoine Bagot, Shannon Sexton shows how firms can move beyond tickboxing exercises and embed supplier diversity into strategy.
It brings together a range of outstanding contributions that explore supplier diversity not just as a compliance tool but as a strategic and social imperative. If you’re researching or working on Social Value in supply chains, these papers are worth a read:
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Last year, a Special Issue on 'Supplier diversity and inclusion in supply chains' was published in Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, guest edited by Ying Yang, myself, Paul Humphreys, and Frank Wiengarten.
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We are living in 'interesting times' for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI); and naturally, recent events (and decisions!) have extended this conversation quite visibly into supply chains.
Open Access UCL Research: Orchestrating governance reconfiguration of inter-organizational project networks to address coordination failures
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3. Orchestration can reconfigure governance forms through a three-phased process: making implicit dissatisfaction explicit, enabling emergence of new governance forms, and then operationalising new forms.
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2. Orchestrators can drive governance change without formal authority, using subtle and strategic upward and downward influence mechanisms
1. Governance forms in IOPNs don’t have to be fixed, they can be intentionally reconfigured midstream to resolve and recover from coordination failures
We examined how the #middlemanagers, acting as #orchestrators, dynamically reconfigured the governance mode to address and recover from coordination failures in a complex inter-organisational project network (#IOPNs). Here are three key takeaways from our research:
The paper presents an ethnographic study of the UK #GrandChallenges programme, executed by the brilliant Ilias Krystallis @ucl.ac.uk
This open access paper is published in the International Journal of Production Economics.
Grateful to share our (w/ Ilias Krystallis & @giorg.bsky.social ) latest publication, "Orchestrating #governance reconfiguration of inter-organisational #project #networks to address #coordination #failures"
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