A Typology of Supply Network Resilience Strategies: Complex Collaborations in a Complex World

By Arash Azadegan, Kevin J. Dooley. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2021

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has illustrated the broad and diverse challenges that supply networks face in preparing for and adapting to significant supply and demand disruptions While much has been written about resilience strategies, few consider resiliency from a network level perspective In this essay, we explain a typology of resiliency strategies linked to different types of collaboration within and between supply networks Existing literature focuses on two of these types, micro‐ and macro‐level supply network resilience Micro‐level resilience occurs when buyers and suppliers coordinate directly on supply risk prevention and recovery Macro‐level resilience occurs when corporations, including competitors, collaborate with institutions such as government or trade associations to manage or regulate longer‐term supply risks This essay identifies a third type, meso‐level resilience Meso‐level resilience emerges when multiple supply networks collaborate on short to medium‐term supply risks These collaborations tend to be more opportunistic and ad hoc than micro or macro‐level collaborations, and we argue that they can be viewed as complex adaptive systems, exhibiting self‐organization and dynamism We identify a number of novel characteristics of meso‐level resilience and discuss research implications

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Supply Chain Viability and the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual and formal generalisation of four major adaptation strategies (2021, methodology): “Viability has some similarities to the meso level of resilience as proposed by Azadegan and Dooley (2021), and it is seen by practitioners and researchers alike as an important construct to be used for both acute survivability stages and as a strategic angle to ensure survival at the level of ecosys”
The Industry 5.0 framework: viability-based integration of the resilience, sustainability, and human-centricity perspectives (2022, background): “The azure and purple clusters can be considered as context clusters: they accumulate keywords related to supply chain resilience, such as uncertainty, risks, and disruptions (Azadegan and Dooley 2021, Gupta et al. 2021, ElBaz and Ruel 2021, Ivanov 2021b, 2021c, Namdar et al. 2021).”