Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

Supply chain resilience and risk management examines how organizations anticipate, absorb, and recover from disruptions—whether caused by natural disasters, geopolitical shocks, or, most visibly, pandemics—across increasingly complex global supplier networks. Researchers study how firms design redundancy, flexibility, and contingency planning into their operations, and how the structure of supply networks itself shapes vulnerability and recovery speed. A central tension in current work is how to balance the efficiency gains of lean, globally distributed sourcing against the robustness that comes from diversification and local capacity. Open questions include how digital visibility tools and real-time data sharing can improve collective resilience across multi-tier networks, and how smaller suppliers—often the least studied but most exposed—can be supported without dismantling the economic logic of global trade.

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Keywords

Supply Chain ResilienceRisk ManagementDisruption MitigationSupply Network ComplexityOrganizational ResiliencePandemic Impact