The Future of Purchasing and Supply Management Research: About Relevance and Rigor
受邀讨论采购与供应管理研究的未来方向，提出通过融入战略管理文献、扎根于有限管理理论（如利益相关者理论、网络理论）来提升相关性，通过增加复制研究、纵向研究和元分析来增强严谨性。
The Journal of Supply Chain Management ( JSCM ) is a hallmark in the academic field of operations and supply chain management. During the past 50 years, it has contributed substantially to the recognition and adoption of purchasing and supply management ( PSM ) as an academic and strategic business domain. Having been invited by the JSCM editors to provide some ideas on the future directions of PSM research, the authors discuss what can be done to further increase both its relevance and rigor. Rigor and relevance in academic research are interconnected. To improve its relevance, the authors argue that future PSM research should better reflect the strategic priorities raised in the contemporary strategic management literature. Next, future PSM research should be much better embedded in a limited number of management theories. Here, stakeholder theory, network theory, the resource‐based view of the firm, dynamic capabilities theory, and the relational view could be considered as interesting candidates. Rigor is connected with robustness of academic research designs and projects. To foster its rigor, future PSM research should allow for an increase in the number of replication studies, longitudinal studies, and meta‐analytical studies. Future PSM research designs should reflect a careful distinction between informants and respondents and a careful sample selection. When discussing the results of quantitative studies, future PSM research should report on effect sizes and confidence intervals, rather than p ‐values. Adoption of these ideas would have some important implications for both the academic PSM community and academic journal editors.