Disaster Resilience Through Public–Private Short‐Term Collaboration

Abstract

W hile contingency planning may provide a perspective for anticipating critical incidents, supply chain managers must develop competencies to address the long-term disruptions that stem from both natural and man-made disasters. The broad-reaching nature of disasters brings public and private entities together and often requires collaboration to revitalize disrupted supply chains. Leveraging supply chain governance logic through the dual lenses of resource management and competing values, a research framework is introduced to address the nature of public-private short-term collaboration and its influence on supply chain resilience. The largely unstudied concept of short-term collaboration is at the heart of a model focusing on the alignment and adjustment of potentially disparate organizational values (public/private) to establish collective responsiveness while facilitating the fulfillment of mutual goals for a single event and/or discrete repeat events. We offer research propositions pertaining to the model and conclude with a discussion of managerial implications and the dire need for future research.

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“…Our early work developing a framework for supply chain resilience has been cited primarily as a means for understanding the factors that drive resilience improvement. Several authors have applied our concepts by focusing not only on surviving disruptions but also on adaptation and growth, thus creating a future state better than before (Zhang et al 2011;Ivanov et al 2014;Scholten and Schilder 2015;Gabler et al 2017). In addition, several have proposed connecting supply chain vulnerabilities and capabilities, we called these resilience linkages, rather than considering them as separate aspects to manage independently (e.g., Wicher et al 2012;Pereira et al 2014;Nooraie and Parast 2016).…”

Logistics service provider selection for disaster preparation: a socio-technical systems perspective

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