The Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status has been introduced by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and its Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade (SAFE) in order to combat terrorism in trade. This article shows the distribution of the AEO programmes in the world.

The Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status is being introduced around the globe in more and more countries in order to combat terrorism by better security measures in World Trade. This paper gives an overview about existing AEO programmes and new AEO programmes which are about to start in...

Recent research has documented that companies are pursuing a variety of strategies to enhance supply-chain resilience. This paper examines how managers actually think about resilience strategies, and then analyzes the relationship between operations, supply-chain characteristics, and the...

How resilient is your supply chain? The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the vulnerability of global supply chains. One of the main business challenges that firms faced was the lack of end-to-end supply chain visibility, which impacts critical operational decisions. If firms are...

Global supply chains have been growing, but also evolving, for decades. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been acquiring an increasingly central role in global value chains, but things might be starting to change. The trade war between the United States (US) and the PRC and, especially,...

In this paper, we offer a characterization of resilience-enhancing measures. We argue that resilience-enhancing measures are either based on using dedicated resources (referred to as "dedicated resilience levers") or on using shared resources (referred to as "shared resilience levers"). By...