..., and (2) we generate new insights underpinning a middle-range theory for supply chain resilience. Design/methodology/approach We synthesise information from a range of sources and invoke ‘critical realism” to suggest a five-phase configurational theorising roadmap to develop middle-range theory. We...

... are responsible for the events observed, as well as to match them with existing theories (Sayer, 1992 ; Mingers, 2006 ; Reed, 2009). However, so far, as the methodological implications of critical realism for management research, in general, “remain sketchy” (Miller and Tsang, 2010), there have not been...