Benchmarking Adaptive Supply Chains: Performance Metrics, Maturity Models, and Socio-Technical Configurations

Call for Papers

Benchmarking Adaptive Supply Chains: Performance Metrics, Maturity Models, and Socio-Technical Configurations

JOURNAL : Benchmarking: An International Journal

PUBLISHER: Emerald Publishing

SUBMISSION OPENS: 01 June 2026

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 December 2026

ABOUT THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

Adaptive supply chains have become a strategic imperative as organisations confront persistent disruptions, sustainability pressures, and accelerating digital transformation. While research on supply chain resilience, sustainability, and digitalisation has expanded rapidly, the field remains fragmented in terms of how adaptive performance is measured, compared, and benchmarked across organisations and contexts.

This special issue responds directly to BIJ's mission by prioritising explicit benchmarking logic — focusing on performance metrics, maturity models, typologies, and performance frontiers that support meaningful cross-organisational and cross-contextual comparison.

The special issue adopts a socio-technical configuration perspective, recognising that adaptive supply chain performance emerges from the interaction of human decision-making, digital technologies, governance mechanisms, and sustainability practices. Rather than treating adaptation as an abstract capability, contributions are expected to operationalise adaptability through measurable constructs and benchmarking frameworks that reveal performance gaps and configuration-based differences.

Theoretically, the special issue encourages the use of performance configuration theory, contingency-based performance measurement, socio-technical performance systems, and benchmarking maturity and frontier perspectives. Empirically, the issue welcomes rigorous comparative designs employing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches to benchmark adaptive supply chains across industries, countries, and institutional environments.

SCOPE & THEME AREAS

We invite submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:

1. Benchmarking adaptive supply chain performance — Cross-industry and cross-regional benchmarking of adaptive supply chain capabilities and outcomes.

2. Performance metrics and composite indices — Development and application of metrics and composite indices for adaptive, sustainable, and resilient supply chains.

3. Supply chain maturity models and benchmarking trajectories — Frameworks for assessing and comparing supply chain maturity levels and developmental pathways.

4. Socio-technical configurations and comparative performance outcomes — How the interaction of human, technological, and governance elements shapes differential supply chain performance.

5. Benchmarking digital and AI-enabled supply chain systems — Comparative performance evaluation of digitally transformed and AI-integrated supply chain operations.

6. Performance frontiers and efficiency analysis — Frontier-based and efficiency analysis approaches to assessing adaptive supply chain performance.

7. Cross-country and institutional benchmarking — Comparative analysis of supply chain adaptability across different national and institutional contexts.

8. Governance, collaboration, and coordination as performance drivers — Benchmarking the role of governance structures and collaborative arrangements in shaping supply chain performance.

9. Sustainability and resilience performance trade-offs — Comparative analysis of the trade-offs and synergies between sustainability and resilience performance in adaptive supply chains.

GUEST EDITORS

Dr. Aamir Rashid City University of New York, USA ✉️ arashid6@york.cuny.edu

Dr. Rizwana Rasheed City University of New York, USA ✉️ rizwana.rasheed@csi.cuny.edu

KEY DEADLINES & DATES

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

How to submit: Manuscripts must be submitted via ScholarOne Manuscripts, strictly following the journal's author guidelines.

Selecting the special issue: At the appropriate submission step, authors must select the special issue title from the drop-down menu in response to "Please select the issue you are submitting to."

Eligibility: Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication elsewhere while under review.

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