Emerging Emergencies and Sustainability: The Role of Supply Chain and Logistics
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 47791
Special Issue Editor
Interests: supply chain; logistics management; supply chain performance; sustainability supply chain management; operations/production management; quantitative management/operations research/management science; quality management; Lean Six Sigma; strategic management; and project management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world is witnessing an unprecedented upheaval in supply chain and logistics. Economic, social, and environmental changes create conditions, amplify, and accelerate what were once one-in-a-generation events. Companies are plunged into emergency mode fighting for their survival and charting unknown territory like never before. To find a way out of recurring crises, managers need guidance on how to redeploy operational resources and build resilience to high impact events.
An important role in reconfiguring and rebuilding operations and supply chains is played by technology. Artificial intelligence (Dwivedi et al., 2019) and big data analytics (Kache and Seuring, 2017; Matthias et al., 2017) can quickly identify populations in distress. Social media (Ramanathan, Subramanian and Parrott, 2017) can help to coordinate relief efforts. Distributed manufacturing technologies from Industry 4.0 (Koh, Orzes and Jia, 2019; Queiroz et al., 2019) have the potential for point-of-care manufacture of life-saving medicines, implants, equipment and devices within the vicinity of an outbreak or disaster (Phillips et al.,2019).
Along with technology, what else is out there? There is limited attention in the literature as to how companies are responding to emerging emergencies in the sustainability space. While scholars have identified the coordination mechanisms needed to provide a synchronized response to disasters (Holguín-Veras et al., 2012; Oloruntoba and Gray, 2006; Van Wassenhove, 2006), the significance of fostering capabilities for the deployment of emerging technologies in emergency situations is under-researched (Sarkis, 2012; De Giovanni, 2019; Koh, Orzes and Jia, 2019).
This Special Issue stimulates debate and discussion on the latest advances in supply chain and logistics management to cope with emergent emergencies and sustainability.
Dr. Ferry Jie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emergency supply chain and logistics management
- sustainable supply chain and logistics management
- supply chain complexity in emergencies
- supply chain complexity in sustainable supply chains
- consumer behavior and supply chains emergencies
- consumer behavior and sustainable supply chains
- social media influence on supply chain emergencies
- social media influence on sustainable supply chains
- B2B and B2C in supply chain emergencies
- B2B and B2C in sustainable supply chains
- employee perception of and behavior toward supply chain emergencies
- employee perception of and behavior toward sustainable supply chains
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