This note complements prior World Bank work analyzing the technical drivers of supply chain disruptions from 2021 onwards. The focus of this note is to shed light on the role of market structure and dynamics by: (a) analyzing how market dynamics and industry structure may have contributed to the...

Der Ausbruch der Coronapandemie 2020 hat die Abhängigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft von globalen Lieferketten off engelegt. Verzögerungen bei der Zulieferung oder der Ausfall von Vorprodukten infolge eingeschränkter Logistikkapazitäten, geschlossener Grenzen oder einer gestörten Produktion...

Shipping accidents and environmental disasters pose a challenge to the reliability of maritime supply chains. With international trade intensifying without a significant diversification of the supply routes the risk of perturbations is likely to increase, because higher atmospheric carbon...

Responding to continued calls for a “circumstance-contingent theory of incumbent response” (Christensen, et al, 2018), this paper develops a formal model of incumbent response to disruptive entry. After developing a typology of incumbent responses identified in prior work, the paper...