Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing

Modelling perceived risk in blockchain enabled supply chain utilizing fuzzy-AHP

Sagar Dua, Mohita Gangwar Sharma, Vinaytosh Mishra, Sourabh Devidas Kulkarni

Blockchain has been considered a disrupting technology that can add value in various supply chains differently. The provenance framework matches the four blockchain…

An appraisal of blockchain technology relevance in the 21st century Nigerian construction industry: perspective from the built environment professionals

Andrew Ebekozien, Clinton Aigbavboa, Mohamad Shaharudin Samsurijan

Studies show that the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies can be used to transform the built environment sector in the 21st century. Blockchain technology has…

Towards measuring SMEs performance amid the COVID-19 outbreak: exploring the impact of integrated supply chain drivers

Fadi Abdelfattah, Mustafa Malik, Abrar Mohammed Al Alawi, Ramzi Sallem, Anirban Ganguly

This study aims to explore supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Oman. This study analyzes the impact on…

Procurement system for resilient supply chain amid the COVID-19 pandemic: systematic literature review

Veer Shivajee, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Sanjay Rastogi

This study aims to provide a rich learning opportunity from COVID-19 crisis for making resilient supply chain by adopting new strategies for the procurement system.

Post-COVID-19 strategic sourcing decisions for escorting stakeholders’ expectations and supplier performance in construction project works

Atul Kumar Sahu, Prabhu M., K.T. Vigneswara Rao

The occurrence of COVID-19 has impacted the wide-reaching dimensions of manufacturing, materials, procurement, management, etc., and has loaded disruptions in the wide…

Optimizing firm's supply chain resilience in data-driven business environment

Mohammad Osman Gani, Takahashi Yoshi, Muhammad Sabbir Rahman

This study aims to investigate the impact of a firm’s supply chain capabilities on supply chain resilience, and the impact of supply chain resilience on sustainable supply…

Mapping the key challenges and managing the opportunities in supply chain distribution during COVID-19: a case of Myanmar pharmaceutical company

Vimal Kumar, Kyaw Zay Ya, Kuei-Kuei Lai

This study aims to present a study on the supply chain process of a Myanmar-based pharmaceutical company (named ABC Pvt. Ltd. in this study) that produces pharmaceutical…

Guidelines for public sector managers on assessing the impact of outsourcing on business continuity strategies: a Brazilian case

João Paulo Santos Aragão, Marcele Elisa Fontana

This paper aims to propose guidelines for public sector managers in assessing the impact of outsourcing on business continuity (BC) strategies. This paper evaluated how…

Supply chain management practices, retail outlets attributes and organisational performance: a case of organised food retailers in India

Anil Kumar, Rohit Kumar Singh

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of supply chain management (SCM) practices and retail outlet attributes on the performance of organised food retailers in…

The production and distribution of face masks to other countries: a strategic approach of Taiwan during COVID-19 outbreak

Vimal Kumar, Ha Thi The Nguyen, Ankesh Mittal, Kuei-Kuei Lai

COVID-19 pandemic has exposed that even the best of the developed nations have surrendered to the devastations imposed on the global supply chains. The purpose of this…

Investigating social factors and their impact on value co-creation in supply chain ecosystems

Franziska Goetz, Ismail Türkmen, Christoph Buck, Reinhard Meckl

As coopetition often characterizes relationships in ecosystems, social factors are particularly important to ensure resilient and reliable relationships, therefore…

Does COVID-19 influence the maturity management of industrial sectors? Evidence from global data

Khakan Najaf, Abdul Rashid, Young Kyung Ko, Susela Devi K. Suppiah

This study aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacts the maturity of all industrial sectors globally. This paper analyses the general patterns of…

Bridging the supply chain resilience research and practice gaps: pre and post COVID-19 perspectives

Piyal Sarkar, Mohamed Wahab Mohamed Ismail, Timur Tkachev

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, all business sectors have critical needs. They face multiple challenges to restructuring their operations to build a resilient…

Modelling the strategies for improving maturity and resilience in medical oxygen supply chain through digital technologies

Vimal K.E.K., Simon Peter Nadeem, Siddharth Meledathu Sunil, Gokul Suresh, Navaneeth Sanjeev, Jayakrishna Kandasamy

Improving the medical oxygen supply chain (MOSC) is important to cope with the uneven demand and supply seen in the MOSC when India faced the second wave of COVID-19. This…

Analysing the interactions of sustainability practices and financial performance on business-to-business buying behaviour in Indian manufacturing industry: a graph-theoretic approach

Mohit Saxena, Nitin Seth

This study aims to develop a framework for the action hierarchy of sustainability practices and financial performance and their optimal combination for supplier evaluation…

A qualitative study of improving the operations strategy of logistics using radio frequency identification

John Flanagan, Candice McGovern

This study aims to investigate how radio frequency identification (RFID) is used and opinions about RFID in two world-leading logistics companies and four organisations in…

Comparing outsourcing-outlook of manufacturing firms and logistics service providers in India and DACH countries

Dhanavanth Reddy Maditati, Sebastian Kummer, Ziaul Haque Munim, Hans-Joachim Schramm

According to the logistics performance index, emerging countries such as India are lagging behind developed countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH…

An integrated SWOT-AHP-fuzzy TOPSIS approach for maturity management following the COVID-19 outbreak: lessons learned from fast fashion

Naila Fares, Jaime Lloret

Focussing on issues that have impacted textiles, clothing and fast fashion following the COVID-19 outbreak, this study aims to identify agility factors pertinent to retail…

A systematic review of AR/VR in operations and supply chain management: maturity, current trends and future directions

Mohammadreza Akbari, Nghiep Ha, Seng Kok

This research aims to provide systematic insight into the current maturity of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in operations and supply chain management…

Selection of strategy for reverse logistics implementation

Himanshu Prajapati, Ravi Kant, Ravi Shankar

Reverse logistics has attracted many industries due to product recalls, enormous waste generation, competitive reasons, vast opportunity in the waste management market…

CEOs’ understanding of blockchain technology and its adoption in export-oriented companies in West Sweden: a survey

Viktor Elliot, Jonas Floden, Conny Overland, Zeeshan Raza, Miroslaw Staron, Johan Woxenius, Abhinayan Basu, Trisha Rajput, Gerardo Schneider, Gunnar Stefansson

The purpose of this paper is to study current practices in adopting blockchain technology amongst export companies in West Sweden and to capture their CEOs’ knowledge of…