John-Patrick Paraskevas

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Tennessee at Knoxville

This article conducts an in‐depth review of the existing literature on network evolution, with an emphasis on understanding how supply chain networks change and evolve. This review has identified a total of 1148 articles in the area of network evolution, comprising 120 articles from business literature and 1028 articles from non‐business literature...

The digital divide is an area of significant concern as society increases its reliance on the internet for everyday tasks. Retail operations are no exception to this trend where the use of the online sales channel has become ubiquitous. As retailers seek to provide a high-quality customer experience across socioeconomic groups to maximize sales pot...

Research Summary Pipeline hiring, repeatedly hiring individuals from the same external source organization, is a common recruiting practice. Yet, whether this pipeline approach improves incoming human capital quality or performance has limited empirical evidence. We argue that, in cooperative source‐hiring organization contexts, pipelines reduce th...

Global supply chains operate in a volatile environment characterized by risks like the 2008–2009 financial crisis, trade disputes, and the COVID‐19 pandemic. Maritime shipping firms, the backbone of global supply chains, are particularly affected by this volatility. In response, these firms have pursued two strategies. First, they have acquired tan...

This study investigates the drivers of product quality failures as manifested through recalls. More specifically, the research develops theory regarding supply chain and operations management (SCOM) representation in organizational top management teams (TMT) and this representation’s association with the frequency of recalls, the type of recalls, a...

Digital Supply Chains (DSCs) are highly integrated global internet communities of customers, distributors, producers, and suppliers. DSCs have increasingly incorporated Internet of Things (IoT) innovations such as field sensors and real time condition monitoring; and have served as effective platforms for IoT technology diffusion. However, as IoT h...

Previous research demonstrates numerous benefits of mutual commitments between parties. However, less is understood about the effect of unilateral commitments, when one party (the committer) makes a relationship‐specific investment without an established current or forthcoming reciprocal commitment by the other party (the recipient). This problem i...

Purpose – This study investigates the relationship between buyer-supplier top management team (TMT) demographic misalignment (defined as differences in TMT composition based on background, age, and gender) and environmental performance. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical setting is publicly held U.S. manufacturing firms that are present i...

As the importance of maintaining a proactive environmental agenda gains significance, an understanding of the impact of the characteristics of the top management team (TMT) on environmental strategy is of critical importance. Given the impact of environmental initiatives on the supply chain, experience in this area can benefit decision‐making in TM...

We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of focal firm and supplier financial dependence on focal firm financial performance using the lens of resource dependence theory. We further investigate the moderating impact of dependence asymmetry on the relationship between lean inventory strategy and focal firm financial performance. We use an...