Chrysalis of crisis: covid-19 as a catalyst for awakening power and justice in a luxury fashion supply chain

Karaosman, Hakan, Marshall, Donna and Villena, Verónica H. 2023. Chrysalis of crisis: covid-19 as a catalyst for awakening power and justice in a luxury fashion supply chain. International Journal of Operations & Production Management 43 (10) , pp. 1634-1666. 10.1108/IJOPM-05-2022-0320

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Structured Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how supply chain actors in an Italian cashmere supply chain reacted to dependence and power use during the Covid-19 crisis and how this affected their perceptions of justice. Design/methodology/approach: The research took a case study approach exploring issues of dependence, power, and justice in a multi-tier luxury cashmere supply chain. Findings: We found two types of dependence: Craftmanship-induced buyer dependence and Market-position-induced supplier dependence. We also identified four key archetypes emerging from the dynamics of dependence, power, and justice during Covid-19. In the repressive archetype, buying firms perceive their suppliers as dependent and use mediated power through coercive tactics, leading the suppliers to perceive interactional, procedural and distributive injustice and use reciprocal coercive tactics against the buying firms in the form coopetition. In the restrictive archetype, buying firms that are aware of their dependence on their suppliers use mediated power through contracts, with suppliers perceiving distributive injustice and developing ways to circumvent the brands. In the relational archetype, the awareness of craftmanship-induced buyer dependence leads buying firms to use non-mediated power through collaboration, but suppliers still do not perceive distributive justice, as there is no business security or future orders. In the resilient archetype, buying firms are aware of their own craftsmanship-induced dependence and combine mediated and non-mediated power by giving the suppliers sustainable orders, which leads suppliers to perceive each justice type positively. Originality: This paper shows how the actors in a specific supply chain react to and cope within one of the worst health crises in living memory, thereby providing advice for supply chain management in future crises. Keywords: Power, Justice, Covid-19, Supply chain management, Multi-tier supply chain, Fashion industry, Resource dependence theory.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Power, Justice, Covid-19, Supply chain management, Multi-tier supply chain, Fashion industry, Resource dependence theory.
Publisher:	Emerald
ISSN:	0144-3577
Funders:	This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 895711.
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 February 2023
Date of Acceptance:	21 January 2023
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2023 15:13
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157071

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