Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Volume 12 Issue 4 , Open Access

Guest editorial: The COVID-19 impact on humanitarian operations: lessons for future disrupting events

Bhavin Shah, Guilherme Frederico, Vikas Kumar, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Anil Kumar

Developing supply chain immunity for future pandemic disruptions

Robert Handfield, Aruna Apte, Daniel J. Finkenstadt

The study discusses a rationale for a new type of capability called supply chain immunity that is required to address slow-moving, persistent and dispersed pandemics similar to…

Managing supply chains during COVID-19 outbreak: a case of Hong Kong toy manufacturing company

Vimal Kumar, Pratima Verma, Tsz-Chun So, Arpit Singh, Ali Al Owad

This study aims to identify key supply chain challenges and opportunities of the case of Hong Kong toy manufacturing company during the COVID-19 outbreak and develop a…

An alternative vaccine prioritization approach in response to COVID-19 pandemic

Feyza G. Sahinyazan, Ozgur M. Araz

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of food access and other vulnerability measures on the COVID-19 progression to inform the public health decision-makers while…

Role of ICT for workers’ safety at the workplace during pandemics: evidence from global data

Khakan Najaf, Mohamed M. Dhiaf, Nohade Hanna Nasrallah, Osama F. Atayah, Hazem Marashdeh

This study contributes to the extant literature on ICT firms by investigating the interrelationship between the health and safety (H&S) measures, market performance, and the…

Digital humanitarianism and crisis management: an empirical study of antecedents and consequences

Anup Kumar, Sudhanshu Joshi, Manu Sharma, Neeraj Vishvakarma

This study proposes a digital humanitarianism dynamic capability (DHDC) paradigm that explores the direct effects of DHDC on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the mediating…

Examining the trend of humanitarian supply chain studies: pre, during and post COVID-19 pandemic

Nor Aida Abdul Rahman, Aidi Ahmi, Luai Jraisat, Arvind Upadhyay

This research aims to shed light on the trend of humanitarian supply chain (HSC) studies in the era of pre, during and post coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic…

Equitable post-disaster relief distribution: a robust multi-objective multi-stage optimization approach

Sogand Soghrati Ghasbeh, Nadia Pourmohammadzia, Masoud Rabbani

This paper aims to address a location-distribution-routing problem for distributing relief commodities during a disaster under uncertainty by creating a multi-stage model that can…

Future challenges in humanitarian operations and the role of partnerships with academia

Luk Noel Van Wassenhove

Engage scholars and humanitarian organizations to collaborate on impactful problems.