Impacts of epidemic outbreaks on supply chains: mapping a research agenda amid the COVID‑19 pandemic through a structured literature review
- The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak shows that pandemics and epidemics can seriously wreak havoc on supply chains (SC) around the globe. Humanitarian logistics literature has extensively studied epidemic impacts; however, there exists a research gap in understand-ing of pandemic impacts in commercial SCs. To progress in this direction, we present a systematic analysis of the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on SCs guided by a structured lit-erature review that collated a unique set of publications. The literature review findings sug-gest that influenza was the most visible epidemic outbreak reported, and that optimization of resource allocation and distribution emerged as the most popular topic. The streamlining of the literature helps us to reveal several new research tensions and novel categorizations/classifications. Most centrally, we propose a framework for operations and supply chain management at the times of COVID-19 pandemic spanning six perspectives, i.e., adap-tation, digitalization, preparedness, recovery, ripple effect, and sustainability. Utilizing the outcomes of our analysis, we tease out a series of open research questions that would not be observed otherwise. Our study also emphasizes the need and offers directions to advance the literature on the impacts of the epidemic outbreaks on SCs framing a research agenda for scholars and practitioners working on this emerging research stream.
Author: | Maciel Manoel QueirozORCiD, Dmitry IvanovORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:b721-opus4-22758 |
URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10479-020-03685-7 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03685-7 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/06/16 |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschulbibliothek HWR Berlin |
Release Date: | 2020/06/25 |
Tag: | Adaptation; COVID-19; Digitalization; Epidemic outbreaks; Influenza; Pandemic; Preparedness; Recovery; Resilience; Ripple effect; Structured literature review; Supply chain; Sustainability |
Volume: | 2020 |
Issue: | Annals of Operations Research (2020) |
Page Number: | 38 |
Institutes: | FB I - Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Open Access Publikationen (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Open Access Publikations financed by DEAL Project: | hybrid |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |