Supply Chain Management in Emerging Economies

Dear Colleagues,

Supply chain management forms the bedrock of economic growth by facilitating the seamless exchange of goods and services between businesses and consumers. It has many moving parts, requiring systems and tools that help streamline processes, improve efficiency, strengthen accuracy, and ensure that businesses have access to the information they need to make the right business decisions.

Unprecedented events like COVID-19, geopolitical tensions/regional conflict, and trade wars have caused significant and ongoing disruptions to global supply chains and generated a ripple effect on the economy all over the world. Additionally, rapidly changing customer needs have further compounded the challenges faced in supply chain management. At the same time, technological advancements in blockchain, IoT, and artificial intelligence have brought new opportunities for collaboration/cooperation, innovation, digital transformations, and sustainable operations.

Although research on supply chain management has made significant progress, there is a dearth of empirical evidence and theoretical reflection on the characteristics of supply chains that operate mainly in emerging economies, in countries where over 80% of the world’s population live. Developing supply chains in these markets, however, goes far beyond adapting the traditional approaches that have been successful in developed countries.

To better understand the unique challenges of entering or operating in emerging markets, this Special Issue calls for valuable, insightful, and relevant research to address the issues and challenges in supply chain management in emerging markets in Latin America, Africa, Asia, etc.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Supply chain risk management;
• Resilient supply chain;
• Blockchain and supply chain management;
• AI and supply chain management;
• Green and sustainable supply chain management;
• Socially responsible supply chain;
• Applications of digital technologies in supply chain management;
• Supply chain collaboration and innovation;
• Supply chain quality management;
• Supply chain integration;
• Supply chain relationship management;

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Dr. Sarah J. Wu
Prof. Dr. Haiju Hu
Guest Editors

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• supply chain management
• emerging economies
• risk management
• collaboration
• integration
• innovation
• information technology
• sustainability