Table 1

Summary of four organization theories (OT) used in HSC research and questions answered

Resource-based theory(1) What are the capabilities of supply chain network to respond to disruptions? (Kovács and Tatham, 2009)
(2) What are the core capabilities of humanitarian actors? (Apte et al., 2016)
(3) How can HSC be an agile supply chain? (L'Hermitte et al., 2016)
(4) How can agility and resilience in humanitarian supply chains be deployed and what influence can these capabilities exert on performance? (Altay et al., 2018)
Resource dependence theory(1) How do small buyers purchase from relatively big suppliers? (Pazirandeh and Norrman, 2014)
(2) What is the usefulness of resource dependence theory in the humanitarian context? (Prasad et al., 2016)
Social exchange theory(1) What is the importance of trust and how can it be applied in quickly formed networks? (Tatham and Kovács, 2010)
(2) How does relationship building take place in the humanitarian sector? (McLachlin and Larson, 2011)
(3) How do trust and commitment affect collaborative performance in the humanitarian setting? (Moshtari, 2016)
(4) How do information sharing and behavioral certainty affect the swift trust? (Dubey et al., 2017)
Contingency theory(1) What factors explain the process of improvement in humanitarian operations? (Larson and Foropon, 2018)
(2) What is the link between supply chain performance and the impact of humanitarian activity in the humanitarian context? (Haavisto, 2014)
(3) How are contingency factors considered in efforts to enhance the sustainability of disaster rehabilitation work? (Kunz and Gold, 2017)

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