Background: Business continuity entails the potential negative consequences of uncertainty on a firm's ability to achieve strategic objectives. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted business continuity due to lockdowns, travel restrictions, and social distancing measures. Consequently,...

Background: Supply chain risk and resilience in non-profit-seeking industries involving governmental agencies and quasi-governmental agencies have been under-studied. This paper focuses on the military industrial supply chain to demonstrate the development of risk assessment and supplier...

We study the causal effects and policy implications of global supply chain disruptions. We construct a new index of supply chain disruptions from the mandatory automatic identification system data of container ships, developing a novel spatial clustering algorithm that determines real-time...

The COVID-19 outbreak created a global public health crisis to which governments responded with several measures, including a lockdown on social and economic activities. This study assessed: (1) the supply chain disruptions caused by the lockdown, (2) the supply chain disruption effects on the...

In recent years, the concurrent occurrences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have led to global disruptions in supply chains and a surge in commodity prices. Major advanced economies have experienced an increase in inflation rates and a decline in economic activity....

Recent studies have conceptualized the potential for a dark and bright perspective of network complexity in relation to supply chain disruption and resilience respectively. Few empirical studies have been conducted on the relationship among supply chain network complexity, supply chain...

This study aims to design supply chain networks by considering strategic and operational decisions, increasing network efficiency, and reducing costs. Optimizing strategic decisions such as location of facilities, and operational decisions such as vehicle routing, greatly affect the network's...

Purpose: This paper examined supply chain disruptions in the manufacturing industry in South Africa and how additive manufacturing technology was used to help deal with disruptions encountered.Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a qualitative research approach in order to meet the...

Disruptive events with damaging consequences afflict supply chains across industries. The survival of the business and its consequent recovery depend on the supply chain's resilience. This exploratory article discusses how technology-driven real-time decision-making in a connected supply chain...

This paper examines the labor market consequences of recent global supply chain disruptions induced by COVID-19. Specifically, it considers a temporary increase in international trade costs similar to the one observed during the pandemic and analyzes its effects on labor market outcomes using a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an immense economic, social, and environmental impact on Supply Chains (SCs) worldwide. Despite the importance of the impact of the pandemic on SCs, very little research has been conducted on a comprehensive systematic literature review on the COVID-19 pandemic and...

This paper aims to explore the causes of supply chain management disruptions in the manufacturing sector. Supply chain disruptions have become a major concern for companies globally, posing significant risks to business operations, costs, earnings, and customer satisfaction. This review examines...

Enhancing supply chain resilience is fundamental to the stable development of manufacturing enterprises. By comparing three resilience strategies, that is investment in fixed suppliers for stable supply, dual sourcing by adding emergency suppliers, and hybrid strategy, we investigate their...

In today's global landscape, supply chains face a plethora of risks due to the increasingly dynamic and turbulent business environment. Supplier selection under disruption risk has been studied extensively in the literature, and several qualitative and quantitative decision-making approaches...

In recent years, the uncertain environment (UE) such as international political turmoil and frequent public health emergencies have made the global supply chain network threatened by disruption risks. A digital supply chain (DSC) provides effective ideas for firms to reallocate resources and...