A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of models beyond the Standard Model. The high intensity of the SPS 400~GeV beam allows probing a wide variety of models containing light long-lived exotic particles with masses below ${\cal O}$(10)~GeV/c$^2$, including very weakly interacting low-energy SUSY states. The experimental programme of the proposed facility is capable of being extended in the future, e.g. to include direct searches for Dark Matter and Lepton Flavour Violation

Influence of Organizational Culture on Service Provider Selection

Although Third Party Logistics Service Provider (3PL) selection literature mentions organizational culture's role in the development as well as in the maintenance of 3PL arrangements, there is a paucity of attempts to underline the significance of organizational culture's influence on the formation and management of 3PL relationships. In this study, the influence of different organizational cultural orientations in uncertainty avoidance, future orientation, performance orientation and paternalism dimensions on the value and the priority that the outsourcing firms give to relation-oriented and success-oriented 3PL selection criteria is investigated. High and low cultural orientation (for each dimension) groups are compared in terms of the value that they give to relation-oriented and success-oriented criteria via t-tests whereas they are compared in terms of the priority that they give to relation-oriented and success-oriented criteria via Wilcoxon rank sum tests. The study reveals that decision makers are influenced by their organizational cultures while valuing and prioritizing relation-oriented versus success-oriented 3PL selection criteria

Relative Deprivation and Resilience in Supply Networks

Dealers may experience and perceive varying levels of beneficiary exchange relations in a manufacturer's network. Low-benefit perceiving dealers may experience relative deprivation as compared to their significant others such as better-off dealers of that manufacturer, better-off dealers of a competitor or better-off itself in previous periods, and demonstrate positive or negative reactions to that deprivation. Although manufacturer-dealer exchange (MDX) relations have been studied previously, research on relative deprivation in those relations is nonexistent. Thus, to fill this gap, this study analyzes dealers' relative deprivation in MDX relations with perceived benefits as antecedents and reactions to deprivation as consequences. A multiple-design case approach has been conducted on two manufacturers and their dealers from the Turkish drapery industry. By analyzing dealers in MDX relations from the automotive industry, validation analyzes have been performed. This study has highlighted the importance of dealers' relative deprivation as an issue to be handled in MDX relations. In addition, resilience of dealers appears to be an essential attribute leading to positive reactions to deprivation

Organisational resilience and relational dynamics in triadic networks: a multiple case analysis

This study aims to analyse resilience and relational dynamics (competitive, cooperative and co-opetitive) within a triadic buyer-supplier-supplier context. Our central goal is to show how a buyer's supplier-supplier relational behaviour leads to and shapes resilience of this triad. We utilised a multiple-design case approach and selected eight buyers and their suppliers from the textile industry in Turkey. By analysing a triadic context from another industry, we conducted validation analyses. Our findings showed a pattern of relationship between the resilience and the relational dynamics of a triad. Built on theory and insights from the cases, we proposed three propositions. We argued that when co-opetition prevails in a triadic context of relations, the triad resilience level is highest. In competitive relational settings the triad resilience level is lowest, and when the relational dynamics are cooperative, the triad resilience level is moderate. This study is the first to introduce and discuss organisational resilience at triadic level. Furthermore, to our knowledge, our insights from cases are among the first attempts to link three types of supplier-supplier relational dynamics to triad resilience via the use of a multiple-design case approach. Therefore, our contributions are likely to extend the organisational resilience and buyer-supplier-supplier relations research

Measuring Supplier Resilience in Supply Networks

This study is an attempt to conceptualize and develop a supplier resilience scale in the context of supplier-buyer relations. There has been a surge in scholarly attention to understand and conceptualize organizational resilience at the theoretical level. Yet, there are also only a few empirical studies investigating organizational resilience in relation to organizational performance. Despite the growing acknowledgement that organizations operate within networks of suppliers, organizational resilience has not been studied at the supplier level and in supplierbuyer relations. Driven by the need to fill this gap, this study aims at adapting the construct of resilience for the context of supplier-buyer relations management and to develop a supplier resilience measurement scale. Supplier resilience is operationalized through an index and its dimensions are measured by data obtained from a sample of 183 supplier firms. The findings of this study conclude that the scale is an adequate and empirically validated measure of supplier resilience across manufacturing and services industries. Further empirical and theoretical implications for supplier resilience measure are discussed

Quality of relationships with alternative suppliers: The role of supplier resilience and perceived benefits in supply networks

Supplier-buyer exchange relationship and quality of that relationship (supplier satisfaction and commitment) have been examined from various angles in the extant literature. Yet, there is a paucity of research investigating the influence of supplier characteristics - especially supplier resilience - on relationship quality. Driven to fill this gap, this study aims to develop theory of the influence of perceived benefits from supplier-buyer exchange relationship and supplier resilience on relationship quality. Data drawn from 97 supplier-buyer dyads were used. Hierarchical regression analyses showed the positive influence of both perceived benefits from supplier-buyer exchange relationships and supplier resilience on relationship quality. Further empirical and theoretical implications, as well as the limitations of the study, are discussed