foresight,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
25(4), P. 578 - 596
Published: Nov. 28, 2022
Purpose
The
COVID-19
pandemic
has
created
a
new
normal
for
international
business
(IB)
activities,
leaving
them
pondering
their
next
steps.
decreasing
effectiveness
of
current
vaccines
to
protect
individuals
against
variants
have
uncertainty
on
how
respond
the
waves
infection.
This
study
aims
empirically
assesses
IBs
perceive
unfolding
challenges
in
supply
chain
due
and
solutions.
Design/methodology/approach
survey
data
is
obtained
from
166
logistics
professionals
Hong
Kong
India.
Findings
results
reveal
that
returns
investment,
logistics,
delays
imports
are
most
affected
areas.
often
recommended
solutions
management
(SCM)
include
using
local
manufacturing
capabilities,
analytics
automation,
offering
better
customer
service,
providing
more
effective
transportation
means,
ensuring
diligence
around
optimization
focusing
sustainability.
Originality/value
findings
this
help
improve
operations.
also
provides
recommendations
changes
SCM
response
normal.
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
14(23), P. 15943 - 15943
Published: Nov. 29, 2022
The
current
COVID-19
pandemic
has
virtually
disrupted
supply
chains
worldwide.
Thus,
chain
research
received
significant
attention.
While
the
impacts
have
been
immeasurable,
organizations
realized
need
to
design
strategies
overcome
such
unexpected
events.
Therefore,
landscape
evolved
address
challenges
during
pandemic.
However,
available
literature
surveys
not
explored
power
of
text
analytics.
Hence,
in
this
review,
an
analysis
related
is
performed
identify
trends
and
future
avenues.
To
discover
frequent
topics
discussed
literature,
bibliometric
(i.e.,
keyword
co-occurrence
network)
mining
tools
N-gram
topic
modeling)
are
employed
for
whole
corpus
top-three
contributing
journals
Sustainability,
International
Journal
Logistics
Management,
Operations
Management
Research).
Moreover,
analytics
Term
Frequency-Inverse
Document
Frequency:
TF-IDF)
utilized
distinctive
per
journals.
A
total
574
papers
published
up
first
semester
2022
were
collected
from
Scopus
database
determine
opportunities.
network
identified
four
clusters
considering
implementation
digitalization
achieve
resilience
sustainability,
usage
additive
manufacturing
pandemic,
study
food
chains,
development
decision
models
tackle
segmented
modeling
top
three
contributors.
Although
both
analyses
draw
concentrations
journal,
tends
provide
a
more
general
scope,
while
gives
specific
topics.
Furthermore,
TF-IDF
scores
unveiled
rarely
studied,
as
implications
on
plasma
cattle
reshoring
decisions,
mention
few.
Additionally,
it
was
observed
how
different
methodologies
implemented
allowed
complement
information
provided
by
each
method.
Based
findings,
avenues
discussed.
will
help
practitioners
researchers
advancements,
gaps
streams.
During
the
Covid-19
pandemic,
supply
chain
resilience
becomes
promising
possibilities
to
mitigate
enterprise
from
disruption
risk.
For
this
reason,
paper
comprehensively
presents
a
systematic
review
of
recent
technological
progress
in
presence
while
addressing
foresight,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
25(4), P. 578 - 596
Published: Nov. 28, 2022
Purpose
The
COVID-19
pandemic
has
created
a
new
normal
for
international
business
(IB)
activities,
leaving
them
pondering
their
next
steps.
decreasing
effectiveness
of
current
vaccines
to
protect
individuals
against
variants
have
uncertainty
on
how
respond
the
waves
infection.
This
study
aims
empirically
assesses
IBs
perceive
unfolding
challenges
in
supply
chain
due
and
solutions.
Design/methodology/approach
survey
data
is
obtained
from
166
logistics
professionals
Hong
Kong
India.
Findings
results
reveal
that
returns
investment,
logistics,
delays
imports
are
most
affected
areas.
often
recommended
solutions
management
(SCM)
include
using
local
manufacturing
capabilities,
analytics
automation,
offering
better
customer
service,
providing
more
effective
transportation
means,
ensuring
diligence
around
optimization
focusing
sustainability.
Originality/value
findings
this
help
improve
operations.
also
provides
recommendations
changes
SCM
response
normal.
