The ''Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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published by

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. It covers research in the field of

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and supply management. The journal also publishes a yearly special issue containing selected papers from the annual meeting of the International Purchasing & Supply Education & Research Association. It was established in 1994 as the ''European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management''. The

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are Louise Knight and Wendy Tate. Previous editors are Alessandro Ancarani and George A. Zsidisin, Finn Wynstra, Christine Harland, and the founding editor, Richard Lamming.

Abstracting and indexing

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and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

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