Jafar Rezaei and Roland Ortt receive 2019 Emerald Award for Excellence for journal article

An article by Jafar Rezaei and Roland Ortt has been selected by the Emerald Publishing editorial board as Highly Commended in the 2019 Emerald Publishing Awards for Excellence. The awarded paper appeared in the International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. In their article 'Supply chain drivers of high-tech SMEs: an empirical study using SEM' Rezaei and Ortt  examine high-tech small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supply chain partnerships. Unique in the article is that partnerships are considered at the level of business function rather than the entire organisation.

About the award
For more than 25 years, the Emerald Awards have celebrated and rewarded the outstanding contributions of authors and reviewers to scholarly research. The Outstanding Paper Awards have been the backbone of the Emerald Awards for Excellence. As the winners are chosen by a journal editorial team, the winning authors have confidence in knowing their paper was one of the most impressive pieces of work from the previous year.