Aline Seepma, Dirk Pieter van Donk and Carolien de Blok win JSCM Best Paper Award

Aline Seepma, Dirk Pieter van Donk and Carolien de Blok have won the 2021 JSCM Best Paper Award during the 82nd Academy of Management Conference held in August in Seattle. Their paper titled ‘On publicness theory and its implications for supply chain integration: The case of criminal justice supply chains’ was found to be the best paper that was published in the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) in 2021.

The paper is part of the line of research Aline Seepma started during her PhD on investigating supply chain management principles in public settings, specifically in the criminal justice context. Seepma obtained her PhD at the Faculty of Economics and Business in 2020, where she is now an Assistant Professor. Dirk Pieter van Donk (Professor in Operations Management at FEB) and Carolien de Blok (senior researcher at Rekenkamer Metropool Amsterdam) were Seepma´s PhD supervisors.

The paper

In their paper, the authors answer the following questions: Is supply chain integration as understood in a private setting applicable in a pure public context such as criminal justice? Is supply chain integration used for similar purposes? Is supply chain integration shaped by the specific interorganizational characteristics of criminal justice supply chains, and if so, how? Through these questions, the authors extend publicness theory to its application at the interorganizational level. An important first step toward a supply chain publicness theory and broadening supply chain management theory.

JSCM is a journal with the highest impact factor in the field of Operations and Supply Chain Management, and is ranked among top 1% of all management journals in the world. Seepma, Van Donk and de Blok’s paper was published in this journal accompanied by a video on the authors research .

More information:

Seepma, A.P., van Donk, D.P., de Blok, C. (2021). On publicness theory and its implications for supply chain integration: The case of criminal justice supply chains . Journal of Supply Chain Management, 57(3), pp. 72-103.

Questions? Please contact Aline Seepma .