Commercial Transport During a Pandemic: Network Analysis to Reconcile COVID-19 Diffusion and Vital Supply Chain Resilience

PurposeThe study identifies nine important research areas and critically maps the structural relationships among supply chain resilience (SCRES) dimensions, namely, vulnerabilities, capabilities, strategies and performance metrics. The analysis also revealed various influential authors, journals, institutions and trending articles, across SCRES literature.Design/methodology/approachThis study performs a bibliometric analysis of 771 articles published over the 32 years from 1988 to 2020, and network analysis in combination with content analysis of 90 most cited articles published in research fronts of SCRES.FindingsThe results demonstrate the underlying research areas within the SCRES, which are clustered into nine research themes: (1) conceptual development of SCRES, (2) recent developments of designing resilient supply chain (SC) networks, (3) focus on identifying drivers of SC vulnerability and risks, (4) impact of risks on network resilience, (5) risk assessment to avoid breakdowns/disruptions, (6) measuring resilience approaches/drivers to improve SC performance, (7) building resilient capabilities by integrating other SC dimensions, (8) quantification of SC network and (9) emphasis on developing robustness in SC networks.Practical implicationsThis research offers implications for classifying the works in literature based on bibliometric information and network analysis techniques. This can help researchers and practitioners to understand the prominent areas in SCRES and provide guidelines for future research in this area.Originality/valueThis study provides an overview of the evolution of SCRES over time in the domain of supply chain management and also outlines a future research agenda claimed by the trending articles to encourage further investigations in the field of SCRES.

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Trends of Research on Supply Chain Resilience: A Systematic Review Using Network Analysis

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12114343 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (11) ◽

pp. 4343

Author(s):

Jin Sung Rha

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Research Trends ◽

Research Articles ◽

Chain Management ◽

Supply Chain Resilience ◽

Wide Range ◽

Future Supply ◽

Scopus Database

Researchers have defined resilient supply chain management in various ways and have analyzed and explained it using many managerial theories. Thus, identifying trends in existing studies could serve as a foundation for future supply chain resilience studies. However, despite the accumulation of a wide body of literature on resilient supply chains, few studies have analyzed the research trends systematically. Therefore, the present study aimed to synthesize and summarize research trends in the supply chain resilience domain using network analysis. The Scopus database and Google Scholar were used to search for research articles on supply chain resilience. We conducted an analysis by visually representing coauthorship, cocitation, PageRank, and keyword networks for 825 research articles and 1725 authors. This study identified the main topics, key articles, and major author groups of supply chain resilience research. The findings are expected to help expand the scope of research to a wide range of subfields in supply chain resilience research in the future.

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Assessing Supply Chain Resilience During the Pandemic Using Network Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management ◽

10.1109/tem.2021.3124027 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Nishat Choudhary ◽

M. Ramkumar ◽

Tobias Schoenherr ◽

Nripendra P. Rana

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Supply Chain Resilience

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An empirical examination of firm financial performance along dimensions of supply chain resilience

Management Research Review ◽

10.1108/mrr-02-2016-0030 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 254-269 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Xun Li ◽

Qun Wu ◽

Clyde W. Holsapple ◽

Thomas Goldsby

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Empirical Examination ◽

Content Type ◽

Supply Chain Resilience ◽

Critical Dimensions ◽

Firm Financial Performance ◽

Supply Chain Agility ◽

The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of three critical dimensions of supply chain resilience, supply chain preparedness, supply chain alertness and supply chain agility, all aimed at increasing a firm’s financial outcomes. In a turbulent environment, firms require resilience in their supply chains to prepare for potential changes, detect changes and respond to actual changes, thus providing superior value. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data from 77 firms, this study develops scales for preparedness, alertness and agility. It then tests their hypothesized relationships with a firm’s financial performance. Findings The results reveal that the three dimensions of supply chain resilience (i.e. preparedness, alertness and agility) significantly impact a firm’s financial performance. It is also found that supply chain preparedness, as a proactive resilience capability, has a greater influence on a firm’s financial performance than the reactive capabilities including alertness and agility, suggesting that firms should pay more attention to proactive approaches for building supply chain resilience. Originality/value First, this study develops a comparatively comprehensive definition for supply chain resilience and explores its dimensionality. Second, this study provides empirically validated instruments for the dimensions of supply chain resilience. Third, this study is one of the first to provide empirical evidence for direct impact of supply chain resilience dimensions on a firm’s financial performance.

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