A systematic mapping review exploring 10 years of research on supply chain resilience and reconfiguration

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Figure 1. Systematic mapping study process (adapted from Petersen et al., 2008).

Table 1. Systematic mapping review questions.

	Mapping Question	Rationale	Focus Area
MQ1	Which sources include relevant papers and how many papers are available?	To identify the list of relevant studies.	Supply chain resilience and supply chain reconfiguration
MQ2	Which geographical areas have reported relevant approaches?	To identify the international clusters of knowledge and to determine the specific research groups focusing.	Supply chain resilience and supply chain reconfiguration
MQ3	What research types have been used in relevant studies?	To identify research types and changes in use over time in the literature.	Supply chain resilience and supply chain reconfiguration
MQ4	What type of research methodologies are followed? Are real-life data involved?	To identify the different types of methodology used to validate models and approaches.	Supply chain resilience and supply chain reconfiguration
MQ5	Which of the reported enablers are used most frequently for supply chain resilience? Have the various enablers of supply chain resilience received the same amount of research attention?	To identify the enablers used for supply chain resilience and to classify the enablers by level of research attention.	Supply chain resilience
MQ6	How have supply chain reconfiguration characteristics been tackled in the supply chain management literature?	To explore the characteristics of supply chain reconfiguration.	Supply chain reconfiguration

Table 2. Structure of questions for systemic mapping review.

Criteria	Description
Population	Studies that describe how supply chain resilience is built into supply chains.
Intervention	Studies that focus on the approaches (methods, strategies, techniques, tools, enablers, capabilities, and components) that are used to build supply chain resilience.
Comparison	N/A
Outcome	Studies that focus on the effectiveness of supply chain resilience measures and characteristics of supply chain reconfiguration.
Context	Studies that examine the enablers used to evaluate supply chain resilience and characteristics of supply chain reconfiguration.

Figure 2. The systematic mapping review process.

Table 3. Inclusion and Exclusion criteria.

Criteria (Inclusion)	Justification
Journal articles which are peer reviewed	Peer reviewed papers are more reliable source to understand real world practices.
Papers have to discuss practices that improve supply chain resilience and reconfiguratio	This paper needs those studies which talk about resilience enablers and the implications (theoretical and or practical) with some outcome in context of different situations and industry.
Selection of papers will be open to any business management discipline (for example, strategy, human resource) and not just operations	The review process is made inclusive to avoid missing out on any articles
The article was published between 2009 and 2019	As per Ali and Gölgeci (2019), there is an exponential growth in the studies on resilience and dynamic supply chain networking was published in last decade. Also, economic slowdown i.e. recession started in 2009. It has led to increase interest of the academicians and practitioners towards resilience and reconfiguration.
Empirical studies, theoretical studies, and literature review papers, either quantitative and qualitative papers.	To understand the multidisciplinary impact of resilience and reconfiguration on supply chain; studies with multiple methods needs to be focused.
The articles contained the search terms	A comprehensive system of keywords was used to search all the relevant articles using ‘AND’ ‘OR’ ‘NOT’ operators. This is done to ensure all the relevant articles are included.
The articles were published in a journal listed in ABDC 2016 and ABS lists only	To ensure quality of research papers.
Criteria (Exclusion)	Justification
The studies provided summaries of conferences or were editorials or guidelines for mapping studies	Basic idea is to find complete and published studies on supply chain resilience and supply chain reconfiguration.
Papers on resilience other than the supply chain context	There were papers which talks about psychological resilience and human resource resilience. Such papers are excluded to maintain focus on supply chain resilience and reconfiguration only.
Paper focusing on mathematical modelling without any practical applications, results or outcomes on supply chain resilience and supply chain reconfiguration	The objective of research is to identify supply chain resilience and reconfiguration practices. Articles not focusing on enablers and characteristics are not taken into consideration.
Studies that are publishes in other language apart from English.	It is easy to comprehend, read and understand articles that was published in English language. Papers in other languages were not taken into consideration.

Table 4. Search results.

Phases	Number of papers remaining
I. All papers	286
II. After removing non-related papers	206
III. After screening of papers	116
IV. After full reading of papers	94

Table 5. Data Extraction.

Data Item	Value	MQ
Study ID	Integer ID
Article Title	The article label name
Author Name	Set of authors’ names
Year of Publication	Year of publication	MQ1
Aim/Scope	The purpose of the study	MQ1
Geographical Areas	Which region the research covered	MQ2
Research Type	The type of research selected	MQ3
Research Methods	The method(s) used in the study	MQ4
Resilience Enablers	The list of resilience enablers reported	MQ5
Reconfiguration Characteristics	The list of reconfiguration characteristics reported	MQ6

Figure 3. The distribution of the articles by subject.

Figure 4. The distribution of the articles over time.

Figure 5. The distribution of the articles by journal.

Figure 6. Country covered by the study (32 studies).

Figure 7. Geographical region covered by the study (32 studies).

Table 6. Classification of research type (Petersen et al., 2015).

Research type	Description
Proposal of Solution	‘A novel solution for a problem or new significant extension to an existing technique'
Validation Research	‘Investigating a proposed solution, which is novel and has not yet been implemented in practice. Investigations are carried out systematically, prototyping, simulation, experiments, mathematical systematic analysis and mathematical proof of properties'
Evaluation Research	‘Evaluating a problem or an implemented solution in practice, case studies, field studies, and field experiments'

Figure 8. Categories of research method.

Figure 9. Research type (Petersen et al., 2008).

Table 7. Definitions of supply chain resilience set out in the studies.

Authors\Years	Scope	Definition
Ponomarov and Holcomb (2009)	Supply chain resilience – adaptive aspects	‘The adaptive capability of the supply chain to prepare for unexpected events, respond to disruptions, and recover from them by maintaining continuity of operations at the desired level of connectedness and control over structure and function.'
Pettit et al. (2010)	The value of resilience concept	‘The capacity for an enterprise to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of turbulent change.'
Jüttner and Maklan, (2011)	Supply chain resilience capability	‘The capacity for enterprises to survive, adapt and grow in the face of turbulent change.'
Pettit et al. (2013)	Business context	‘The capacity for an enterprise or set of business entities to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of change and uncertainty.'
Wieland and Walleburg (2013)	Supply chain resilience	‘The ability of [the] supply chain to cope with change.'
Brandon-Jones et al. (2014)	Supply chain resilience	‘The ability of a supply chain to return to normal operating performance, within an acceptable period of time, after being disturbed.'
Ambulkar et al. (2015)	Firm resilience	‘The capability of the firm to be alert to, adapt to, and quickly respond to changes brought by supply chain disruption.'
Hohenstein et al. (2015)	Supply chain resilience – adaptive and reactive aspects	‘[The] supply chain's ability to be prepared for unexpected risk events, responding and recovering quickly to potential disruptions to return to its original situation or grow by moving to a new more desirable state in order to increase customer services market share and financial performance.'
Tukamuhabwa et al. (2015)	Supply chain resilience – adaptive and reactive aspects	‘The adaptive capability of a supply chain to prepare for and/or respond to disruptions, to make a timely and cost effective recovery, and therefore progress to a post-disruption state of operations [that is] ideally a better state than prior to the disruption.'
Chowdhury and Quaddus (2016)	Supply chain resilience – adaptive and reactive aspects	‘The capability of a supply chain to prevent disruptions and to reduce the impact of disruptions through developing required level of readiness, quick response and recovery ability.'
Kamalahmadi and Parast (2016)	Supply chain resilience – adaptive and reactive aspects	‘The adaptive capability of a supply chain to reduce the probability of facing sudden disturbances, resist the spread of disturbances by maintaining control over structures and functions, and recover and respond by immediate and effective reactive plans to transcend the disturbance and restore the supply chain to a robust state of operations.'
Chowdhury and Quaddus (2017)	Supply chain resilience – adaptive and reactive aspects	‘The characteristics of a well-designed supply chain network with proactive and reactive capabilities which enables the supply chain members to reduce the probability of disruptive events (or to reduce their impact) to take the organization to a stronger and more sustainable state.'
Datta (2017)	Supply chain resilience – dynamic process	‘A dynamic process of steering actions so that the organization always stays out of [the] danger zone and if the disruptive/ uncertain event occurs, resilience implies initiating a very rapid and efficient response to minimize the consequences and maintaining or regaining a dynamically stable state which allows it to adapt operations to the requirements of the changed environment before the competitors and succeed in the long run.'
Liu et al. (2018)	Resilient enterprise	‘An enterprise's ability to identify bottlenecks and potential risks in managing a supply chain, which allows it to adopt effective measures before a supply chain is disconnected.'
Dubey et al. (2019a)	Supply chain resilience	‘The ability of the system to return to its original state within an acceptable period after being disturbed.'
Dubey et al. (2019b)	Supply chain resilience	‘The property of a supply chain that enables the disrupted supply chain to recover its normal operating performance, within an acceptable period, after the disrupting forces are withdrawn or disappear.'

Figure 10. Supply chain resilience enablers.

Table 8. Supply chain resilience enablers.

Table 9. Supply chain reconfiguration characteristics.

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