A review of supply chain transparency research : antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes

Budler, Marko (author), Quiroga, Bernardo F. (author), Trkman, Peter (author)

The growing popularity of "Supply Chain Transparency" (SCT) as an idea has motivated its use as a "buzzword," leading to a lack of terminological clarity. Terms like visibility, transparency, and traceability are used colloquially or as synonyms for one another, yet often without a proper conceptual basis. We argue that the absence of a clear understanding of SCT limits the ability of scholars and practitioners to fully understand the role played by transparency in supply chains and to study its antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes. Therefore, transparency research is at the point where a scoping review of literature on SCT is particularly useful. Our review first provides a formal conceptualization of SCT, allowing us to identify how transparency has been understood, the building blocks of SCT, and what distinguishes SCT from other concepts. In the review, we initially identify relevant concepts underlying SCT with a view to establish a unifying and nuanced framework for SCT. Second, using that unified conceptualization as a basis, primary outcomes such as the benefits and risks of SCT are determined. Third, we systematically detect and classify future research opportunities arising from the building blocks of SCT.

• Language: English
• Keywords: supply chain, information system, transparency, information sharing, technology enablers, visibility
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 28 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 45, iss. 1, article no. 12368
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-159826
• UDC: 659.2:004
• ISSN on article: 0735-3766
• DOI: 10.1111/jbl.12368
• COBISS.SI-ID: 175002371
• Publication date in RUL: 26.07.2024

BUDLER, Marko, QUIROGA, Bernardo F. and TRKMAN, Peter, 2024, A review of supply chain transparency research : antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes. Journal of business logistics [online]. 2024. Vol. 45, no. 1,  12368. [Accessed 17 May 2025]. DOI 10.1111/jbl.12368. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=159826

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of business logistics
• Shortened title: J. bus. logist.
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley)
• ISSN: 0735-3766
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1022236

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: preskrbovalne verige, informacijski sistem, transparentnost

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
• Project number: 11191014
• Name: Bidding Behavior in Complex Auction Environments

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J7-50185
• Name: Transparentnost in digitalizacija v oskrbovalnih verigah