Supply Chain Risks and Business Performance

Dear Colleagues,

The globalization of supply sources and demand markets provides many advantages to organizations and individuals around the world. However, the benefits of global supply chains need to be balanced with respect to risks of disruption, as well as challenges of efficient and responsive performance in the face of various operational and strategic complexities. For example, international shipping is highly reliant on the smooth operations of two major infrastructural bottlenecks, the Suez and Panama Canals. Over the past year, both major thoroughfares for global supply chains became significantly restricted due to disruptions: the Suez Canal route at the mercy of wartime tensions around the Red Sea, and the Panama Canal with capacity limits due to low water levels from sustained drought conditions in Central America. These risks might generally be referred to as geopolitical and natural disasters, respectively. Both are commonly cited risks of supply chain globalization. Of course, there are numerous other types of risks for supply chains to navigate such as sudden economic changes, information opacity, exchange rates, regulatory heterogeneity and compliance with principles of corporate social responsibility.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish relevant and rigorous research which intersects supply chain risk(s) with organizational performance. We are open to theoretical and applied papers that bring together perspectives of supply chain risks, mitigation tactics and performance.

Prof. Dr. Gerard J. Burke
Dr. Senali Amarasuriya
Dr. Ta Kang Hsu
Guest Editors

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• sustainability
• economic shifts
• regulatory compliance
• supply chain resilience
• geopolitical risk