...Sini Laari; Oskari Rintala; Juuso Töyli; Tomi Solakivi; Lauri Ojala Purpose This paper aims to investigate how firms can enhance their resilience in response to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the study focuses on assessing responsiveness as an antecedent...

... jolt such as COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on data from a questionnaire survey among Danish manufacturing and transport and logistics companies with 174 respondents. Findings While the adaptive capabilities associated with both SCR and ACAP are well recognized...

... suppliers to agree to a lower price for new orders. Large brands and retailers’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that softer regulations, such as third-party audits, are likely to be ineffective given the power imbalance at the heart of the supply chain. Practical implications The study...

.... In addition, the impact of the COVID-19 disruption was tested as a moderator of the impact of supply chain memory on supply chain resilience and robustness. Design/methodology/approach Altogether, 257 supply chain managers answered the questionnaire, and data were analysed through structural equation...

... activities on the inflicted damage by unexpected supply chain disruptions and the recovery time afterwards and test these empirically using data from companies during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The authors investigate a sample of 231 of the largest publicly traded companies...

... industry. This study also compares the results of the associated SC-Perf objectives before and after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak lockdown situation. Design/methodology/approach The authors undertook in-depth empirical research using a questionnaire survey to explore the performance of automotive...

...Andrew Fearne; Beverly Wagner; Natalie McDougall; David Loseby Purpose COVID-19 has shaken views of what is normal and what is possible, raising questions about conventional norms, ways of working and our understanding of agility. This paper aims to respond to calls for empirical research...

...Michele Morais Oliveira Pereira; Minelle E. Silva; Linda C. Hendry Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chain (SC) sustainability learning. In particular, it focuses on the learning associated with changes in the sustainability initiatives...

...David M. Herold; Katarzyna Nowicka; Aneta Pluta-Zaremba; Sebastian Kummer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into the reactions and lessons learned with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of how logistics service providers (LSPs) managed to maintain supply chains...

..., global clothing retailers were advised or ordered to close physical stores due to lockdown measures of the COVID-19 pandemic and many supply chains temporarily halted production. This paper explains how pre-pandemic modern slavery advancements will be detrimentally affected as a result of societal...

...Remko van Hoek; David Dobrzykowski Purpose Reshoring is one of the supply chain risk management techniques suggested in literature. However, literature suggests that the decision-making involved in reshoring is complex and not fully understood. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, reshoring...

..., collaboration, flexibility and redundancy, contributed to supply chain resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic response. Collaboration is identified as a key mechanism for resilience with public sector networks viewed as facilitating this. Established collaborative relationships with suppliers pre-pandemic did...

.... China Improvement Organizational effectiveness SCM practices Best practice Supply chain risk management Supply risk Demand risk Process risk Environmental risk COVID-19 National Science Foundation (NSF) 1238878 We define a supply chain risk as “the potential deviation from...