International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 52 Issue 7

Guest editorial: The “new normal”: rethinking supply chains during and post-COVID-19 global business environment

Shams Rahman, Kamrul Ahsan, Amrik Sohal, Richard Oloruntoba

Did COVID-19 change the rules of the game for supply chain resilience? The effects of learning culture and supplier trust

Mehmet Fatih Acar, Alev Özer Torgalöz, Enes Eryarsoy, Selim Zaim

This paper aims to clarify the effects of learning culture and trust on supply chain resilience (SCR) and to investigate their role specifically during COVID-19 pandemic to aid…

A large-scale real-world comparative study using pre-COVID lockdown and post-COVID lockdown data on predicting shipment times of therapeutics in e-pharmacy supply chains

Mahesh Babu Mariappan, Kanniga Devi, Yegnanarayanan Venkataraman, Samuel Fosso Wamba

The purpose of this study is to present a large-scale real-world comparative study using pre-COVID lockdown data versus post-COVID lockdown data on predicting shipment times of…

Forming post-COVID supply chains: does supply chain managers' social network affect resilience?

Ethan Nikookar, Yoshio Yanadori

Rethinking how to build resilience in supply chains is once again highlighted by COVID-19. Research on supply chain resilience has established flexibility as a firm-level…

How did supply chain networks handle the COVID-19 pandemic? Empirical evidence from an automotive case study

Alexander Spieske, Maximilian Gebhardt, Matthias Kopyto, Hendrik Birkel, Evi Hartmann

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic unveiled resilience deficits in supply chains. Scholars and practitioners aim to identify supply chain resilience (SCRES) measures…