Managing supply chain volatility (SCV) is often identified as one of the major challenges of modern supply chain management. While research has predominantly focused on describing the multidimensional areas of SCV and its negative impacts, clear guid...
Amid the profound restructuring of global value chains, supply chain risk has mainly been linked to visible shocks such as pandemics, wars, and geopolitical conflict. Much less is known, however, about whether exchange rate volatility can become a so...
Traditional financial models often fail construction firms by ignoring industry-specific volatility. This study proposes an Explainable AI (XAI) framework to predict Return on Assets (ROA) and Debt-to-Equity (D/E) ratios using KOSPI and KOSDAQ data (...
Oil has historically been the most significant primary energy source for our daily lives and business activities. However, recent skyrocketing oil prices have been one of the greatest concerns among policymakers, business executives, and the general...
Geopolitical conflict, tariff shocks, and rapidly evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulation have made global supply chains markedly less predictable. This study examined how manufacturing supply chain decision-makers perceive si...
Based on the theoretical framework of Multivariate Stochastic Volatility (MSV), this paper combines the Dynamic Generalized Correlation (DGC) model with the t-distribution, establishes the DGC-t-MSV model, and employs the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MC...
The tax burden significantly influences corporate sustainability, making the study of the impact of supply chain transaction volatility on corporate tax burden crucial for alleviating tax pressures and promoting healthy corporate development. Using a...
For decades, food quality standards have attracted the interest of governance institutions and regulation authorities, who have responded to the increasing and demanding societal challenges. In addition, the open debate on significant variability and...
In recent years, the stability of supply chains has been undermined due to many disruptions. Although it is normal for the disruptions in supply chains to occur periodically, they have great impact on the rise of the costs and they create strong imba...
The EU’s green transition hinges on secure access to critical raw materials; vanadium is pivotal for microalloyed steels and emerging long-duration energy storage (VRFBs). Methods: We combine a market and technology review with PESTEL and Porte...
Considering the lifecycle of products, firms are releasing new products through diversified strategic partnerships via the global supply chain. As the uncertainty about the future increases and strategic partnership grows more important, part supplie...
Geopolitical uncertainty represents a growing source of systemic risk that reshapes international markets, disrupts cross-border operations, and challenges firms’ ability to sustain financial performance. This research examines the mechanisms t...
To investigate the effects of carbon trading pricing and overconfidence on supply chain emission reduction decisions, this paper establishes a supply chain model consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer and applies the Stackelberg game model. The...
This study explores how blockchain technology can enhance the resilience of the prefabricated building supply chain in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. The measurement model of the subject, stage, and overall resilienc...
As climate change and energy crises increase, NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) fertilizer supply chains become more volatile. Globally, the Russian attack on Ukraine has caused the cost of gas to rise and fertilizer supplies to decline. This...
Purchasing portfolio models, particularly the Kraljic matrix, are widely used to support sourcing decisions under supply risk. Yet, they are often criticized for relying on subjective assessments and focusing mainly on upstream uncertainty while negl...
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This study examines how supply chain structure diversification drives high-quality enterprise development in the digital economy. Using panel data from Chinese listed non-financial firms (2009–2023), we find that diversification of both supplie...
Grain supply is the lifeblood of a country, and the stability of the supply chain is a crucial prerequisite for ensuring national grain security. This paper draws on the definition of resilience in physics and economics. It takes supply chain fractur...
The coffee industry is encountering a plethora of challenges amidst a rapidly evolving world. We will delve into the multifaceted landscape of the coffee business, highlighting the emerging hurdles that have reshaped its dynamics. Climate change rema...
Under the frequent occurrence of external environmental risks and in the context of breakthrough innovations driving new quality productivity, this study explores the intrinsic mechanisms by which supply chain integration affects enterprise breakthro...
The modern business world operates in the VUCA environment or reality; volatility and unpredictability are the only constants in it. It is challenging for entrepreneurs to predict the future, and the tested routines, proven habits, or the developed p...
The global shift to low-carbon energy systems has significantly increased demand for critical raw materials like lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements, and copper. These materials are essential for renewable technologies and energy storage. Ho...
Supply chain conditions can influence firm risk by shaping operational stability and dependence within customer and supplier relationships. This study examines whether ESG performance mitigates corporate risk in such settings. Using panel data on pub...
One of an organization’s significant challenges in a globalized world is reducing risk by building resilient supply chains (SCs). It is required to realize a competitive advantage in a volatile and fast changing environment. Conversely, the key...
Through an international business risk management lens, the widespread and catalytic implications of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic on the supply chains (SCs) of fashion multinational corporations (MNC) are analyzed to contribute to existing research on...
Background: Ensuring the consistent availability of essential medicines is crucial for effective healthcare systems. However, Ethiopian public health facilities have faced frequent stockouts of crucial medications, highlighting systemic challenges su...
Building a resilient and efficient supply chain system is critical for sustaining firm operations in an increasingly uncertain global environment. This study examines whether the firm-level exposure to industry-wide robot penetration mitigates firm-l...
This study examines how investment efficiency and risk jointly shape sustainable grain supply-chain upgrading. Using firm-level panel data for 25 listed grain supply-chain firms in China from 2015 to 2023, this study examines efficiency–risk st...
Increasing external uncertainty, supply disruptions, and market volatility have made resilience enhancement increasingly important for sustainable agricultural supply chains. While existing studies mainly examine agricultural supply chain resilience...
Today’s perishable food supply chains must be resilient to handle volatile demands, environmental restrictions, and disruptions in order to meet customers’ requirements. The enablers of the perishable food supply chain have not yet been e...
Background: Global supply chains operate in increasingly volatile and technology-intensive environments shaped by digital transformation and artificial intelligence integration. While prior research has emphasized structural and technological enabler...
Copper is a critically important metal for economic security, and its supply chain is influenced by various factors, particularly market prices. This paper aims to uncover the impact of high uncertainty in copper prices on the copper supply chain (CS...
In the context of a complex and volatile domestic and global environment, Chinese enterprises face frequent risks of supply chain disruption that seriously hinder their operations. The rise of the digital economy offers new opportunities to strengthe...
Supply chains operate in increasingly volatile environments, making it essential to understand the mechanisms through which partner characteristics shape risk-response capability. This study examines how compatibility between supply chain partners pr...
Global supply chains are facing many changes after the COVID-19 pandemic. This change impacts the way each supply chain measures its key performance indicators and determinants for its competitiveness. Aquaculture supply chains (SCA) play an essentia...
This work considers the incorporation of renewable ammonia manufacturing sites into existing ammonia supply chain networks while accounting for ammonia price uncertainty from existing producers. We propose a two-stage stochastic programming approach...
This study aims to explore the impact of supply chain risk (SCR) on organizational performance (OP) within the Pakistani auto sector, focusing on the mediating role of supply chain integration (SCI) and the moderating effect of demand uncertainty. Th...
The increasingly dynamic and volatile market environment has elevated the importance of handling operational risks in supply chain networks. Also, black swan risks are constantly evolving and can strike from almost anywhere, including natural disaste...
The healthcare supply chain is a complex adaptive ecosystem that facilitates the delivery of health products to the end patient in a cost-effective way. However, low forecast accuracy and high demand volatility in healthcare supply chains have result...
Pharmaceutical supply chains face high inventory and stockout risks because of short product shelf lives and volatile demand. To enhance coordination efficiency and reduce drug waste, this study examines a two-echelon supply chain comprising a manufa...
Global supply chains face unprecedented challenges from geopolitical conflicts, climate change, economic volatility, and technological disruptions, highlighting the critical role of supply chain resilience as a core strategy for firms to maintain sta...
Supply chain agility and sustainability is an essential element for the long-term survival and success of a manufacturing organization. Agility is an organization’s ability to respond rapidly to customers’ dynamic demands and volatile mar...
This study examines the integrated impacts of cyberattacks, geopolitical, and financial market volatility on rare earth markets during the 2014–2024 period, using Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregression and wavelet analysis. By bridging cr...
The fashion industry’s business is becoming increasingly complicated and active. This industry is expected to be highly competitive, particularly in the retail sector. Therefore, this research aims to examine the impact of supply chain informat...
Two kinds of incentive strategies, cost-sharing and penalty, are examined in dealing with production disruption, with consideration of production process reliability as an endogenous factor for a two-echelon supply chain. Based on the Stackelberg gam...
In today’s intricate and dynamic world, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is encountering escalating difficulties in relation to aspects such as disruptions, globalisation and complexity, and demand volatility. Consequently, companies are turning t...
Supply chain finance has been gaining attention in theory and practice. A company’s financial position affects its performance and survivability in dynamic and volatile markets. Those that have weak financial performance are vulnerable when ope...
Supply chains are increasingly exposed to compounding disruptions, volatile demand, and sustainability constraints, which challenge optimization approaches designed for stable operating conditions. This review synthesizes recent advances in supply ch...
Fresh produce, as a primary source of nutrition, plays a pivotal role in daily life. However, the unique characteristics of fresh produce—such as perishability, widespread production, short shelf life, long distribution cycles, and high volatil...
The spread of blockchain technology is gaining ground worldwide, including in the supply chain and logistics sector. Its proliferation is expected to transform supply chains. Academic research is needed to investigate the reasons for and barriers to...
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