Digital Supply Chains: Technologies, Resilience and Sustainability
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Item type: Item , Exploring the Oppositional Forces In Digital Product Passport Implementation(2026-01-06) Jussen-Lengersdorf, Ilka; Möller, FrederikDigital Product Passports (DPP) are novel types of digital representations for physical goods that digitally collect product-related data throughout the supply chain. They can be administered either by the Economic Operator (EO) (the entity putting the product in the market) or by a DPP Service Provider (DPPSP). The existence of DPPSPs poses a set of issues for DPP implementation. While they can take over some responsibilities, they are an additional actor that potentially centralizes the product-related data and the associated power. In this paper, we explore the issues prevailing in DPPSPs from a practice perspective using a dialectical inquiry lens. We analyzed 50 responses to a call by the European Commission for feedback on the rules for DPPSPs by companies, business associations, and NGOs. Our paper contributes a systematic understanding of the prevailing issues in implementing DPPSPs.Item type: Item , Sensing for Transformation: A Typology of Strategic Resilience Responses in Supply Chains(2026-01-06) Goertler, Thomas; Papert, Marcel; Laube, ChiaraRecent disruptions have highlighted the limitations of traditional, engineering-based approaches to supply chain resilience. In response, scholars have called for a shift toward resilience as transformation – the capacity to fundamentally reconfigure supply chains and business models considering systemic change. This study integrates resilience thinking with the dynamic capabilities framework, focusing on the sensing phase as the critical moment in which firms identify environmental signals that may trigger transformational responses. Drawing on qualitative interviews with firms undergoing strategic supply chain shifts, the study explores how organizations interpret signals from complex and uncertain environments. The findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of sensing under conditions of volatility and offer insights into how firms distinguish between adaptation and transformation. The research advances theory on supply chain resilience and dynamic capabilities, while providing practical implications for managers navigating long-term structural change.Item type: Item , Adoption of AI-Enabled Decision Support Systems for Supply Chain Resilience – An Individual-Level Perspective(2026-01-06) Kokkinou, AlindaIn the context of supply chain management, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is contributing to increasingly performing Decision Support Systems (DSSs) that can support data-driven decision-making, leading to better supply chain resilience. As this is contingent on decision-makers adopting and using such systems, it remains unclear how various technology and individual-level factors interact to influence the adoption and usage of AI-enabled DSSs in the context of supply chain management. Using a 2 (AI vs. no AI) x 2 (confirmation vs. disconfirmation) scenario-based experiment, the study finds that employees with prior experience using AI exhibit a higher intention to adopt and use an AI-enabled DSS when it generally contradicts their opinion of the best course of action. Less experienced employees tend to prefer a non-AI-enabled DSS. Under the confirmation condition, and possibly fearing overreliance on the DSS, employees with more experience using AI prefer a non-AI-driven DSS.Item type: Item , Designing the Hybrid Cooperative: A Socio-Technical Architecture for Scalable, Global Coordination Using Blockchain(2026-01-06) Axelsen, Henrik; Damsgaard, JanBlockchain has been promoted as a remedy for coordination in fragmented, multi-stakeholder ecosystems, yet many projects stall at pilot stage. Using a design-science approach, we develop the Hybrid Cooperative (HC), a digitally native governance architecture that combines smart-contract coordination with a minimal, code-deferent legal interface and jurisdictional modules. This selective decentralization decentralizes rules where programmability lowers agency and verification costs, and centralizes only what is needed for enforceability. A post-case evaluation against two traceability initiatives in supply chains illustrates how the HC improves distributed task management, verifiable information, incentive alignment, institutional interoperability, and scalable, contestable governance. The paper contributes to Information Systems by specifying a socio-technical model for scalable, multi-stakeholder coordination across regulatory and organizational boundaries.Item type: Item , Introduction to the Minitrack on Digital Supply Chains: Technologies, Resilience and Sustainability(2026-01-06) Bodendorf, Freimut; Chen, Haozhe; Pflaum, Alexander; Prockl, Günter