...Chandra Prakash; Salman Ali Purpose Opportunism poses a significant risk that can undermine relationships between humanitarian actors during disruptions. Thus, it is essential to mitigate this issue, ensuring that actors make decisions that favor effective humanitarian operations. This study aims...

... practices and ultimately enhance the effectiveness of humanitarian operations. Originality/value The research proposes a multi-criteria supplier evaluation framework that balances economic, resilient, social, and environmental aspects, aiming to bridge the gap between current practices and the ideal...

...Kezban Yagci Sokat; Maria Besiou Purpose The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to draw insights from the rich literature on humanitarian operations efforts to combat human trafficking; second, to inspire humanitarian operations researchers to work more on human anti-trafficking. Design...

... and empirically validate a theoretical model that addresses how formal mechanisms foster trust in inter-organisational relationships. Inter-organisational relationship Justice Information sharing Trust Formal mechanism Humanitarian operations The vulnerability of ordinary people to both natural...

.../approach The present study used a qualitative research approach, incorporating a systematic literature review and conducting semi-structured interviews with 12 experts in the fields of humanitarian operations, supply chain management, fintech and information technology. Findings The findings show...

...Luiza Ribeiro Alves Cunha; Adriana Leiras; Paulo Goncalves Purpose Due to the unknown location, size and timing of disasters, the rapid response required by humanitarian operations (HO) faces high uncertainty and limited time to raise funds. These harsh realities make HO challenging. This study...

...N. Nurmala; Jelle de Vries; Sander de Leeuw Purpose This study aims to help understand individual donors’ preferences over different designs of humanitarian–business partnerships in managing humanitarian operations and to help understand if donors’ preferences align with their actual donation...

... factor for humanitarian operations and amounts on average to around 75% of the total response cost. Based on our findings, humanitarian supply chains bear tremendous potential for further improvements to provide more assistance with limited resources available. Research limitations/implications...

.../implications Even though this study offers empirical results that could guide policymakers in their decision-making about humanitarian operations, care needs to be taken since the data is within one country and within a specific disaster context – hence, policymakers need to consider the local contextual...

...Maria Besiou; Luk N. Van Wassenhove Purpose The purpose of this study is to show that the current complexity of humanitarian operations has only increased the usefulness of system dynamics (SD) in helping decision-makers better understand the challenges they face. Design/methodology/approach...

.../implications This paper contributes to the literature on humanitarian operations & supply chain management. By focussing on an understudied phase of the disaster life-cycle management, it contributes to the theory of value co-creation by exploring new issues and drivers of beneficiary's participation...

... better understand and solve, using organizational theory, the behavioral challenges faced by humanitarian operations. Originality/value The study presents current applications of and future prospects for OT-based research in HSC, effectively providing the first review of OT applications in this area...

... hypothesize that: Not-for-profit organizations Food banks Supply chain integration Performance Humanitarian operations Econometric methods Managing operations in a humanitarian context such as those faced by food banks is quite challenging as there is an increasing demand for services...

...Arthur Abreu da Silva Lamenza; Tharcisio Cotta Fontainha; Adriana Leiras Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a Humanitarian Purchasing Matrix to guide purchasing strategies for relief items in humanitarian operations. Design/methodology/approach The research synthesizes...

... of the decision-making problems encountered in different parts of the proposed framework, which may constitute many different problems to the OR literature each of which can open new venues for future research. Humanitarian operations Camp administration Camp establishment Refugee camp management...

... supply chain Humanitarian operations Not-for-profit supply chain Refugees and internally displaced persons Refugee studies, as a broad multi-disciplinary field of academic inquiry, have become a major focus of scholars and policymakers around the world (Cameron, 2014). This is because refugees...

... at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Refugee Embeddedness Camp design Humanitarian operations Layout Since 2008, there has been a staggering growth of displaced people due to rapid-onset natural disasters, conflict, and violence. By the end of 2016, the global number...

... they communicate with organizations may affect performance in humanitarian operations. March and Simon (1958) define communication as a flow of information among members of an organization, in which a series of messages is sent and received (Drenth et al., 1998) using different channels (Shannon...

... as their total mileage increases, is not efficient and leads to higher costs to the organization. Vehicle allocation also has to take into consideration specific safety constraints in humanitarian operations, such as the requirement to drive in convoys in hostile environments (Balcik et al., 2010...