Guest editorialEmerging research and future pathways in digital supply chain governance

Over the past 20 years, the management of supply chain (SC) relationships and, particularly, governance theories, instruments and mechanisms have received increasing attention operations management research (cf. Pilbeam et al., 2012; Bonatto et al., 2020). The of fragmented and globally dispersed supply chains has laid the foundation for forms of interorganizational governance (Gereffi et al., 2005) that utilize contractual relational mechanisms to balance interdependencies and individual interests in a way allows effective collaboration and control for improved performance (Pilbeam al., 2012).