Dynamic capabilities in humanitarian supply chain management: a systematic literature review
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
ISSN: 2042-6747
Article publication date: 27 November 2020
Issue publication date: 4 February 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the extant literature of humanitarian supply chain management (HSCM) which specifically use dynamic capabilities (DCs) view. By this means, the objectives of this study are to identify and assess the DCs used in the HSCM context, the factors positively and negatively affecting the DCs and how the DCs affect humanitarian supply chain (HSC) operations. Furthermore, this research aims to give directions for future research in the field of HSCM.
Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts systematic literature review (SLR) approach proposed by Denyer and Tranfield (2009). Based on a SLR, this study synthesizes and compares the evidence, has a specific focus and research questions, has certain inclusion and exclusion criteria and provides evidence-based implications to the researchers and practitioners. This is a method which is replicable, transparent and auditable. The SLR methodology provides scholars and practitioners a basis for comprehending the current situation of relevant topic and taking correct steps in their future actions.
Findings
This SLR deduces that applying DCs view is still in its infancy in the HSCM literature. The result of this SLR reveals that supply chain agility (SCA), supply chain resilience (SCR), reconfiguration/transformation, integration, (short-term) collaboration, sustaining, sensing, seizing and knowledge access DCs have been used in the HSCM literature. In addition, it is determined that only one paper analyzed the influence of DCs on predisaster performance while rest of the papers focused on the postdisaster performance.
Originality/value
The result of the exhaustive literature search indicates that this is the first SLR that specifically analyzes the application of DCs view in the HSCM domain. This investigation determined the DCs used in HSCM and revealed the relations between the dependent and independent variables through the comprehensive model. In this way, this review provides a guidance to researchers in conduct their future investigations and practitioners to carry out supply chain (SC) operations by considering the factors affecting their operations.
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Acknowledgements
The author has no conflict of interest to declare.
Citation
Polater, A. (2021), "Dynamic capabilities in humanitarian supply chain management: a systematic literature review", Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 46-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-10-2020-0089
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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