Global Supply Chain Management and Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

The main purpose of this systematic review is to examine the empirical findings with regard to global supply chain management and resilience. The review focuses on identifying insights and empirical findings, theoretical foundations used, the methodologies employed and the existing gaps and possible future recommendations in the topic areas. The researcher used screening criteria as per the PRISMA guide lines to select articles from reputable databases. A total of 39 articles were meet the selection criteria used to identifies the relevant and quality studies to be reviewed. Descriptive and thematic analysis was used to in this review to review the articles qualitatively. The review result shows dynamic capability and resource based view was the most frequently utilized theory in the reviewed articles; methodologically majority of the studies employed quantitative and qualitative approaches separately; PLS-SEM, SEM and regression analysis were the dominant data analysis methods applied in the study and finally lack of theoretical integration studies, lack of longitudinal studies, lack of standardized scales, limited mixed studies and geographically concentrations, and exploring newly emerging topics are some of the major gaps identified in the reviewed paper. The researcher recommended that organizations should develop balanced resilience capability portfolios that include redundancy, flexibility, visibility, and collaboration rather than relying on any single approach and also supply chain relationships should be managed as strategic assets that provide resilience benefits beyond operational performance.