This study examines the empowerment of low-power, vulnerable stakeholders of global, complex supply chains as one effective strategy to increase value co-creation and to moderate the vulnerabilities that threaten supply chain resilience. Previous sch...
As a representative of Chinese alcoholic drinks, baijiu has developed into a mass-consumption commodity. Its simple industrial chain makes it a suitable target for fraudsters. In order to understand the differences and potential factors of fraud vuln...
In recent years, the continuous spread of the COVID-19 epidemic has impacted the supply chain of enterprises. Mitigating the supply chain’s vulnerability has great significance for the survival and development of enterprises. Optimizing the bus...
The uncertainty environment brought about by COVID-19 has broken the original stable hierarchical network structure and the whole supply and demand system of the tourism supply chain (TSC), which has brought heavy losses to the tourism industry. Usin...
Recently, it has become an important issue to ensure sustainability, especially in food supply chains, against the rapidly growing population, increasing demand, and sudden disruptions caused by uncertain times such as that caused by COVID-19. Since...
Organic foods are frequently targeted by fraudsters. Examination of underlying factors helps to reduce fraud vulnerability and to prevent fraud. In this study, the fraud vulnerability of five actors from each of four chains were examined using the SS...
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 can be vulnerable to sudden disruptions, especially when it emphasizes efficient operation. In this regard, supply chain resilience (SCR) has received attention recently to cope with disruptions and improve competitiveness. This paper p...
This paper develops a procedure for assessing both supply chain processes and strategic criteria in the context of platform-based supply chains, addressing the problem that organizations often invest in digital platforms without a clear understanding...
Supply chains are increasingly vulnerable to disruptions due to the complex and interconnected nature of global business operations. Supply chain nervousness (SCN) leads to inefficiencies and disruptions in the flow of goods and services. Managing SC...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and smart automation are revolutionizing the global supply chain ecosystem at an accelerated pace, providing tremendous potential for resilience, innovation, efficacy, and profitability. This paper examines how AI, machin...
Deficient rainfall due to drought is an inevitable factor triggering maize yield uncertainty, thus affecting the performance and sustainability of the supply chain. Therefore, this paper first uses historical data to quantitatively fit the unfavorabl...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains, including those for essential medicines like paracetamol. This study aimed to assess the resilience and adaptability of Ethiopia’s paracetamol supply chain durin...
Companies must shift from traditional supply chain management thinking to addressing or preventing increases in vulnerability, uncertainty, and unforeseen supply chain disruptions facing complex global supply chains. Systems with a large number of el...
Uncertainties caused by many internal and external factors can lead to supply-chain disruptions, increasing the vulnerability and cost of operations. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic, whose worldwide emergence was not foreseen, has become a major...
Fresh product faces intrinsic vulnerabilities to supply disruptions, given its perishable nature and seasonal dependencies. This underscores the critical importance of supply chain resilience in sustaining a steady and dependable flow of these goods...
The humanitarian aviation supply chain (HASC) serves as a critical conduit for delivering essential aid to populations affected by disasters and conflicts, especially when ground routes are inaccessible. However, HASCs operate in high-risk environmen...
The advent of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies has revolutionized production environments with their application in supply chains, particularly within the agrifood sector. One notable I4.0 technology is blockchain, which holds significant potential f...
The forest-to-bioenergy supply chain is significantly vulnerable to natural disruptions, including wildfires, heavy snowfall, and windstorms. The increased occurrence of these disruptive events has caused severe challenges in forest biomass harvestin...
In today’s competitive environment, managing supply chains (SCs) is becoming increasingly challenging. Demand uncertainty, globalization, shorter product and technology lifespans, and growth in the number of logistics partners result in more so...
Railway transport is the backbone of Canada’s supply chain, valued for its reliability and safety despite its inherent complexity, which brings a variety of associated risks. Considering Canada’s climate, analyzing weather-related risks i...
The COVID-19-induced strain on global supply chains led to significant market imbalances and unprecedented inflation, particularly affecting urban economies. Containment policies and stimulus packages resulted in unpredictable demand shifts, challeng...
Supply chain (SC) disruption risk assessment and mitigation have attracted significant attention in both academia and practice. However, existing research predominantly focuses on unidirectional disruption propagation, either forward or backward, des...
This study examines the adoption of real-time visibility (RTV) technologies in the Australian meat cold supply chain, a sector where sustainability challenges such as food spoilage, energy inefficiency, and waste are acute. RTV technologies offer pro...
As climate variability intensifies, its impacts are increasingly visible through disrupted agricultural systems and rising food insecurity, especially in climate-sensitive regions. This study explores the complex relationships between environmental s...
Building a sustainable and efficient green agricultural product supply chain (GASC) is crucial for ensuring global food security and promoting environmental sustainability. However, at the regional level, the spatial differentiation patterns of its e...
The supply chain for prefabricated buildings (PB) is vulnerable to the operation failure of node enterprises, with frequent damage occurring. Therefore, it is vital to establish an evaluation model of supply chain resilience (SCRE) to improve the abi...
Against the backdrop of global energy landscape restructuring, the advancement of the “dual-carbon” goals, and escalating external uncertainties, coal, as the “ballast stone” of China’s new energy system, faces new chall...
COVID-19 has had unprecedented effects on construction markets globally due to supply chain disruptions and workforce restrictions, etc. However, construction industries in developing countries are more vulnerable to the obstacles associated with the...
After providing a general overview of factors that make businesses economically vulnerable to pandemics (such as COVID-19), this article identifies specific elements that increase the vulnerability of businesses to pandemics. These specifics include...
Batteries are the heart and the bottleneck of portable electronic systems. They power electronics and determine the system run time, with the size and volume determining factors in their design and implementation. Understanding the material propertie...
The reliable operation of a logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is a key factor for improving logistics efficiency and service level, and vulnerability is an important indicator of reliable LSSC operation. Based on complex network theory, we recons...
Phosphate rock is an irreplaceable resource for the production of fertilisers, which are essential for global food security. Its extraction is highly concentrated in a limited number of countries and, together with rising demand and ongoing environme...
Consumers and businesses are often connected online in today’s digitally connected world. Fast and barrier-free communication, easier and faster operation, and automation and networking of robots and production offer many competitive advantages...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant impacts for nearly all industrial and societal sectors in the world. As closures and social distancing mandates were implemented to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus designated as Severe Ac...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of global manufacturing companies to their supply chains and operating activities as one of the significant disruption events of the past two decades. It has demonstrated that major companies undere...
The durable nature of supply chains in the Middle Eastern region is critical, given the region’s strategic role in global trade corridors, yet geopolitical conflicts, territorial disputes, and governance challenges persistently disrupt key rout...
Supply chain resilience (SRES) is essential for firms aiming to alleviate the impact of interruptions and maintain operational continuity and sustainability in performance. In the context of the FMCG industries of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, character...
Sustainable finance and carbon risk have attracted substantial interest from both practitioners and scholars. This paper integrates the income-based environmental responsibility framework with financial asset pricing models to investigate how carbon...
The eyeglass lens manufacturing industry has become increasingly vulnerable to supply chain risks due to overlapping global disruptions, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Suez Canal blockage, the Russia–Ukraine conflict, Red Sea shipping ins...
For several decades, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have offshored their manufacturing activities to low-cost countries to achieve significant productivity gains. However, changes in the relative competitiveness of countries, social effects of dein...
The logistics network is considered the provider of logistics activities in supply chains. The fluctuating requirements of customers and the logistics network’s complex structure are only a few of the factors that cause challenges to its manage...
Bangladesh has frequently been affected by natural hazards, notably, cyclones in coastal areas. Humanitarian organizations are always active in helping affected communities through effective humanitarian supply-chain management by providing humanitar...
In this article, the impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict on food security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is analyzed. With Ukraine being recognized as one of the major global grain producers and exporters, the conflict is s...
Geopolitical instability is increasingly affecting the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure by disrupting energy systems, semiconductor supply chains, and digital infrastructure networks. While existing research h...
The transportation sector faces growing supply chain disruptions driven by workforce shortages, digital skills gaps, and weak cultural readiness for risk. Human Resource Management (HRM) offers a credible path toward stronger supply chain resilience...
This study examines the spatiotemporal evolution of China’s grain supply chain resilience and regional disparities from 2012 to 2022, employing provincial data and a multidimensional framework encompassing resistance capacity, adaptive adjustme...
Overwhelmed by the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, global supply chains are being restructured and improved worldwide. It then becomes essential to accurately assess their vulnerabilities to external shocks and understand the relationships...
Selecting appropriate and resilient suppliers is an important issue in supply chain management (SCM) literature. Making an effective decision on this issue can decrease external risks and disruptions, purchase costs, and delay times and also guarante...
Food security (FS) is one of the most elusive and sought-after objectives worldwide. Securing a country’s self-sufficiency— in the current COVID-19 pandemic era, more than ever—has become a prioritized mission. In the Middle East an...
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