Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory
Disaster response operations aim at helping as many victims as possible in the shortest time, with limited consideration of the socio-economic context. During the disaster rehabilitation phase, the perspective needs to broaden and comprehensively take into account the local environment. We propose a...
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| description | Disaster response operations aim at helping as many victims as possible in the shortest time, with limited consideration of the socio-economic context. During the disaster rehabilitation phase, the perspective needs to broaden and comprehensively take into account the local environment. We propose a framework of sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SCM) that facilitates such comprehensive performance. We conceptualize the framework by combining literature from the fields of sustainable and humanitarian SCM. We test the framework through an analytic induction process by means of multiple case studies of four relief organisations. Our framework suggests that supply chain design needs to be aligned not only to relief organisations’ enablers, but also to the population’s long-term requirements as well as any socio-economic and governmental contingency factors. A good fit between these dimensions leads to sustainable performance. The framework provides an instrument for relief organisations to achieve sustainable performance in the disaster rehabilitation phase. |
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| spelling | nottingham-330072020-05-04T17:24:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33007/ Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory Kunz, Nathan Gold, Stefan Disaster response operations aim at helping as many victims as possible in the shortest time, with limited consideration of the socio-economic context. During the disaster rehabilitation phase, the perspective needs to broaden and comprehensively take into account the local environment. We propose a framework of sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SCM) that facilitates such comprehensive performance. We conceptualize the framework by combining literature from the fields of sustainable and humanitarian SCM. We test the framework through an analytic induction process by means of multiple case studies of four relief organisations. Our framework suggests that supply chain design needs to be aligned not only to relief organisations’ enablers, but also to the population’s long-term requirements as well as any socio-economic and governmental contingency factors. A good fit between these dimensions leads to sustainable performance. The framework provides an instrument for relief organisations to achieve sustainable performance in the disaster rehabilitation phase. Taylor & Francis 2015-11-02 Article PeerReviewed Kunz, Nathan and Gold, Stefan (2015) Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications . pp. 1-20. ISSN 1367-5567 Supply chain management humanitarian logistics sustainability disaster rehabilitation government case studies http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13675567.2015.1103845 doi:10.1080/13675567.2015.1103845 doi:10.1080/13675567.2015.1103845 |
| spellingShingle | Supply chain management humanitarian logistics sustainability disaster rehabilitation government case studies Kunz, Nathan Gold, Stefan Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory |
| title | Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory |
| title_full | Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory |
| title_short | Sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory |
| title_sort | sustainable humanitarian supply chain management: exploring new theory |
| topic | Supply chain management humanitarian logistics sustainability disaster rehabilitation government case studies |
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