Increasing global supply chains’ resilience after the COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical results from a Delphi study

Maximilian Gebhardt, Alexander Spieske, Matthias Kopyto and Hendrik Birkel

Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 150, issue C, 59-72

Abstract: COVID-19 has revealed global supply chains’ vulnerability and sparked debate about increasing supply chain resilience (SCRES). Previous SCRES research has primarily focused on near-term responses to large-scale disruptions, neglecting long-term resilience approaches. We address this research gap by presenting empirical evidence from a Delphi study. Based on the resource dependence theory, we developed 10 projections for 2025 on promising supply chain adaptations, which were assessed by 94 international supply chain experts from academia and industry. The results reveal that companies prioritize bridging over buffering approaches as long-term responses for increasing SCRES. Promising measures include increasing risk criteria importance in supplier selection, supply chain collaboration, and supply chain mapping. In contrast, experts ascribe less priority to safety stocks and coopetition. Moreover, we present a stakeholder analysis confirming one of the resource dependence theory’s central propositions for the future of global supply chains: companies differently affected by externalities will choose different countermeasures.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Delphi study; Supply chain disruption; Supply chain resilience; Supply chain risk management; Resource dependence theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296322005409
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:150:y:2022:i:c:p:59-72

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.008

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside

More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().