Agility and resilience as antecedents of supply chain performance under moderating effects of organizational culture within the humanitarian setting: a dynamic capability view

Abstract

This study examines the effects of supply chain agility (SCAG) and supply chain resilience (SCRES) on performance under the moderating effect of organizational culture. We have used the dynamic capability view (DCV) to conceptualize our theoretical models for different phases of humanitarian supply chain (HSC) (pre and post-disaster phases). We used partial least squares (PLS) to examine the proposed research hypotheses using 335 responses gathered from organizations in India using questionnaires designed for a single respondent. The results suggest that SCAG and SCRES are two important dynamic capabilities of supply chain, have significant effects on pre-disaster performance (PRE-DP). The control orientation does not have significant effect on the path joining SCAG and PRE-DP. However, the control orientation has a significant interaction effect on the path joining SCRES and PRE-DP. Similarly, SCRES has significant effect on post-disaster performance (POST-DP) but SCAG has no significant effect on POST-DP. In contrast, the flexible orientation has significant moderation effects on the paths SCAG/SCRES and POST-DP. These findings contribute to our understanding of the differential effect of SCAG/SCRES on supply chain performance in different contexts. The results provide further understanding to develop appropriate strategies for different phases. Finally, limitations of our study and future research are presented.

Keywords:

• Humanitarian supply chain
• agility
• resilience
• dynamic capability view
• partial least squares

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Nezih Altay

Nezih Altay is a Professor of Operations Management at the Driehaus College of Business of DePaul University. He holds a PhD in Operations Management from Texas A&M University. Nezih’s research specializes in disruption management, humanitarian supply chains and service parts management. He has published his research in leading academic journals and co-edited two books: Service Parts Management: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control (2011) and Advances in Managing Humanitarian Operations (2016) both published by Springer. He currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management.

Angappa Gunasekaran

Professor Angappa Gunasekaran is a Dean and Professor at the School of Business & Public Administration, California State University, Bakersfield. Prior to this, he served as Dean of the Charlton College of Business from 2013 to 2017, Chairperson of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences from 2006-2012, and the founding Director of Business Innovation Research Center (BIRC) from 2006 to 2017 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has over 350 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He has presented about 50 papers, published 50 articles in conferences, and given a number of invited talks in many countries. He is on the editorial board of several journals. He has organized several international workshops and conferences in the emerging areas of operations management and information systems.

Rameshwar Dubey

Dr. Rameshwar Dubey is an Associate Professor at Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France. Prior, to joining Montpellier Business School, he was an Associate Professor at Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India and Visiting Professor & Research Fellow at Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzen, China and visiting scholar of leading international business schools from U.S.A., U.K., and China. He is on editorial board of several leading operations and information management Journals. He has co-authored over 110 research articles (SCOPUS database), in leading international technology and operations management journals ranked in ABS 4, ABS 3 and ABS 2. He is also an examiner of Ph.D. theses from France, India, Australia and New Zealand and a regular reviewer of several reputable journals in the field of technology & operations management, general management and industrial engineering. He has successfully guided 3 PhD students as a co-supervisor and over 20 Master Theses in the field of Technology and Operations Management.

Stephen J. Childe

Dr. Stephen Childe is an Associate Professor in Operations Management at Plymouth Business School, Plymouth, UK. He is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a member of IFIP Working Group 5.7 ‘Advances in Production Management Systems’. He was formerly a Vice-Chairman of the UK Institution of Operations Management and is the Editor of the international journal ‘Production Planning & Control: The Management of Operations’. His research interests include improving management and service operations and supply chains especially with respect to developing the ideas of the Circular Economy in which services and goods are provided without further damage to people and the planet. Steve is a member of the University's Sustainable Earth Institute and Deputy Leader of the ProSerV research group.