Toward Greater Validation of Supply Chain Management Theory and Concepts: The Roles of Research Replication and Meta-Analysis
评估了供应链管理领域中研究复制和元分析的进展，指出通过重复研究和元分析可以积累和综合研究发现，从而增强理论的可信度，对学者和实践者均有价值。
Although researchers have been working for over three decades to identify, construct, and test the critical concepts and theories that comprise the supply chain management (SCM) discipline, the field’s theoretical basis has yet to be thoroughly vetted through repetitive, rigorous study. Emerging theories in SCM offer great explanatory potential, but if they are to stand the tests of time, place, and reason, research findings must be accumulated and synthesized. For the field to prosper, we advocate the execution of multiple studies that replicate findings across contexts while simultaneously encompassing relevant theoretical extensions. Furthermore, as SCM research streams mature, scholars should then employ meta-analytic techniques to gain consensus across studies, such that findings can be more confidently extolled to both academic and practitioner constituencies. In this article, we evaluate the progress of replication and meta-analysis to date within the SCM field and provide some prospects for thematic research that could perpetuate accelerated validation.