Resilient supply chains for extreme situations: Outlining a new field of study

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Abstract

The 2010 special issue of International Journal of Production Economics brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with a keen interest in the effective functioning of supply chains in the face of human disaster. A crisis or disaster can be the result from a wide variety of adversity. Only when effective response organizations work together is there a chance that an effective supply chain will emerge. Oloruntoba studies the Australian response to Cyclone Larry. He pays specific attention to the role of the Australian military, which proved a key to the successful response. Gatignon and co-researchers provide an in-depth study of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) response to the Yogyakarta earthquake. This contribution documents the history of IFRC's development of a decentralized disaster supply chain approach and explains why it worked so much better than a centralized approach. Ergun and researchers highlight the performance of the Waffle House chain in the southern US states.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

International Journal of Production Economics

First Page

1

Last Page

6

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