Humanitarian supply chain management frameworks

Agarwal, Sachin; Kant, Ravi; Shankar, Ravi

doi:10.1108/bij-08-2018-0245

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“…Although collaboration is often seen as beneficial to humanitarian organizations, humanitarian organisations also face difficulties in managing collaborative efforts, including collaboration with the private sector and the beneficiaries. The difficulties may stem from cultural conflict (Skute et al, 2019), technology barriers (Oraee et al, 2019;Agarwal and Singh, 2018), conflicting goals and mandates (Kumar and Havey, 2013;Kov acs and Spens, 2007), structure conflict (Akhtar et al, 2012) or lack of performance metrics (Agarwal et al, 2019). Presence of such difficulties may have an effect on service delivery.…”

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Enhancing service delivery in humanitarian relief chains: the role of relational capital

Namagembe

2020

JHLSCM

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PurposeThe study examined the influence of relational capital on inter-cluster coordination and service delivery of humanitarian organisations; the mediating and moderating role of inter-cluster coordination on the relationship between relational capital and service delivery.Design/methodology/approachData was collected from 60 humanitarian organisations. Potential respondents were five officers from each humanitarian organisation involved in delivering humanitarian assistance. Respondents from the different organisations were selected using purposive sampling. The SPSS software, SMART PLS and CB-SEM software were used to obtain results on the influence of relational capital on inter-cluster coordination and service delivery in humanitarian organisations; and the mediating and moderating role of inter-cluster coordination on the relationship between relational capital and service delivery.FindingsFindings indicated that relational capital influences inter-cluster coordination and service delivery in humanitarian relief chains; inter-cluster coordination partially mediates the relationship between relational capital and service delivery in humanitarian relief chains; and no interactive effect was found when the moderation effect of inter-cluster coordination on the relationship between relational capital and service delivery in humanitarian organisations was examined.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was mainly focused on humanitarian organisations excluding beneficiaries and the logistics suppliers. The research has implications to decision-makers in government and humanitarian organisations concerned with providing relief aid to beneficiaries.Originality/valueThe influence of relational capital on inter-cluster coordination and service delivery in humanitarian relief chains; the mediating role and moderating role of inter-cluster coordination on the relationship between relational capital and service in humanitarian relief chains are aspects that have not been given significant attention empirically.

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Enhancing service delivery in humanitarian relief chains: the role of relational capital

Namagembe

2020

JHLSCM

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“…Although the importance of DCs approach to generate dynamic solutions to HSCM problems by the HSCM literature is evident, the existing HSCM literature reviews (LRs) have not systematically investigated the HSCM studies that specifically applied DCs approach. The existing HSCM-oriented LRs have touched briefly on the importance of DCs in humanitarian context (Agarwal et al, 2019;Behl and Dutta, 2019;Prakash et al, 2020;Soosay and Hyland, 2015;Stechemesser et al, 2015;Tabaklar et al, 2015), yet they have not discussed the role of DCs systematically and in detail. In addition, when the author searched the literature with the combination of "dynamic capability/capabilities" and "literature review" keywords, it was observed that the dominant number of studies are organizational management focused and only 1 out of 45 papers investigated crisis response at organizational level (Adrot and Robey, 2008).…”

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Dynamic capabilities in humanitarian supply chain management: a systematic literature review

Polater

2020

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PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to examine the extant literature of humanitarian supply chain management (HSCM) which specifically use dynamic capabilities (DCs) view. By this means, the objectives of this study are to identify and assess the DCs used in the HSCM context, the factors positively and negatively affecting the DCs and how the DCs affect humanitarian supply chain (HSC) operations. Furthermore, this research aims to give directions for future research in the field of HSCM.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts systematic literature review (SLR) approach proposed by Denyer and Tranfield (2009). Based on a SLR, this study synthesizes and compares the evidence, has a specific focus and research questions, has certain inclusion and exclusion criteria and provides evidence-based implications to the researchers and practitioners. This is a method which is replicable, transparent and auditable. The SLR methodology provides scholars and practitioners a basis for comprehending the current situation of relevant topic and taking correct steps in their future actions.FindingsThis SLR deduces that applying DCs view is still in its infancy in the HSCM literature. The result of this SLR reveals that supply chain agility (SCA), supply chain resilience (SCR), reconfiguration/transformation, integration, (short-term) collaboration, sustaining, sensing, seizing and knowledge access DCs have been used in the HSCM literature. In addition, it is determined that only one paper analyzed the influence of DCs on predisaster performance while rest of the papers focused on the postdisaster performance.Originality/valueThe result of the exhaustive literature search indicates that this is the first SLR that specifically analyzes the application of DCs view in the HSCM domain. This investigation determined the DCs used in HSCM and revealed the relations between the dependent and independent variables through the comprehensive model. In this way, this review provides a guidance to researchers in conduct their future investigations and practitioners to carry out supply chain (SC) operations by considering the factors affecting their operations.

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“…Humanitarian supply chain management (HSCM) is defined as—“The process of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient, cost-effective flow and storage of goods and materials, as well as related information, from the point of origin to the point of consumption to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable people” (Behl & Dutta, 2019 ). Building and managing resiliency is the core strategy of HSCM to fight the disaster and provide the relief-aid (Agarwal et al, 2019 ; Cozzolino, 2012 ), unlike the commercial supply chains.…”

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Examining the barriers to operationalization of humanitarian supply chains: lessons learned from COVID-19 crisis

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Humanitarian supply chains (HSC) have vital significance in mitigating different disruptive supply chain risks caused due to natural or man-made activities such as tsunami, earthquakes, flooding, warfare, or the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Each kind of disaster poses a unique set of challenges to the operationalization of HSC. This study attempts to determine the critical barriers to the operationalization of HSC in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, we determined and validated 10 critical barriers to HSC operationalization through a Delphi method. Further, we analyzed the barriers by computing the driving and dependence power of each barrier to determine the most critical ones. To do so, we coined a distinct form of interpretive structural modeling (ISM) by amalgamating it with the neutrosophic approach, i.e. Neutrosophic ISM. The findings indicate, “lack of Government subsidies and support, lack of skilled and experienced rescuers, and lack of technology usage” are the most critical barriers that influence the streamline operations of HSC during the COVID-19 outbreak, unlike other disruptions. This is the first-of-its-kind research work that has identified and analyzed the critical barriers to HSC operationalization during COVID-19 in the Indian context. The results and recommendations of the study can aid policymakers and HSC professionals in formulating suitable strategies for successful HSC operations. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10479-022-04752-x.

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Humanitarian supply chain management frameworks

Cited by 38 publications

References 77 publications

Enhancing service delivery in humanitarian relief chains: the role of relational capital

Enhancing service delivery in humanitarian relief chains: the role of relational capital

Dynamic capabilities in humanitarian supply chain management: a systematic literature review

Examining the barriers to operationalization of humanitarian supply chains: lessons learned from COVID-19 crisis

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