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Call for Papers

Special Issue: Research in Supplier Development and Global Supply Chain Quality

Guest Editor:
S. Thomas Foster, Jr.
Area Leader and Professor of Global Supply Chain Management
Ford Motor Company Fellow in Quality Management
Brigham Young University

Deadline: September 30, 2009

An upcoming special issue of the Quality Management Journal (QMJ) aims to publish papers that provide greater insights into how decisions about quality management, quality assurance, and quality control need to be recast to improve supply chain performance.

Papers may be either conceptual or empirical in nature, pursuing either theory-building or theory-testing. Papers will typically be based on empirical methodologies, such as case research or survey research, and should align with the mission of the QMJ to encourage research that is relevant to practitioners. Interdisciplinary papers in terms of content or in terms of methodologies are strongly encouraged.

Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:

  1. Global supply chain quality management. Companies are struggling to improve supply chain performance in a global environment. This includes working with suppliers in emerging economies such as the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
  2. Supplier development in either a domestic or global context. What are firms doing to improve supplier performance? What does and doesn’t work?
  3. Supplier evaluation. What are effective methods for evaluating suppliers? Do these relate to improved performance?
  4. Global supply chain quality strategy. Strategy relates to both content and process when managing suppliers in global supply chains.

Submission guidelines for this special issue:

  • Submit manuscripts by September 30, 2009, to manuscripts@asq.org.
  • Clearly note that you are submitting your paper for the special issue on Research in Supplier Development and Global Supply Chain Quality.
  • Follow standard QMJ author guidelines and format requirements.
  • Manuscripts will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion and according to QMJ review procedures. The guest editor in consultation with the editor-in-chief of QMJ will make all final decisions as to the suitability of manuscripts for the special issue.