“Goldilocks” Theorizing in Supply Chain Research: Balancing Scientific and Practical Utility via Middle-Range Theory

By Christopher W. Craighead, Dave J. Ketchen, Li Cheng. 2016

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2e51543f6f76d15083aaf1d6563bdf17970abeb7

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In Management Information Systems

1. Christopher W. Craighead
2. Horst Treiblmaier
3. Dave J. Ketchen

In Strategy and Management

1. Christopher W. Craighead
2. Dave J. Ketchen
3. Jessica L. Darby
4. Horst Treiblmaier
5. G. Tomas M. Hult
6. Olli‐Pekka Kauppila
7. Dmitry A. Ivanov

Citations in the corpus

• Pandemics and Supply Chain Management Research: Toward a Theoretical Toolbox* (2020, background): “Although we recognize that theoretical contextualization, including temporal and spatial aspects, may come at the expense of generalizability (Craighead et al., 2016), so be it—pandemics are important enough to warrant deep diving research.”
• The impact of the blockchain on the supply chain: a theory-based research framework and a call for action (2018, background): “As the logistics fi eld has evolved from a rather description-based discipline to one that is founded upon solid theoretical grounding, a need for middle-range theorizing has arisen (Stank et al. , 2017; Craighead et al. , 2016).”