Robust supply chain strategies for recovering from unanticipated disasters

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Recovering from unanticipated disasters is critical in today's global market. This paper examines the effectiveness of popular recovery strategies used to address unpredictable disasters that derail supply chains. We create a formal model to portray dynamic operational performance among supply chain firms facing disruptions caused by natural and man-made disasters. Our analysis shows that a supply chain recovers best if member firms adopt a radical, rapid, costly recovery strategy that immediately resolves the disruption. This observation is robust to various resource consumption requirements. We apply our methodology in the case of Taiwan's 2011 food contamination scandal and provide managerial insights.

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Authors/Creators:	Chen, LM Liu, YE https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2637-5890 Yang, SJS
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2015, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	Emergency management; Supply chain disruptions; Supply chain vulnerability; Cellular automata; Complex systems; Behavioral game theory
Dates:	Accepted: 20 February 2015 Published (online): 27 March 2015 Published: 1 May 2015
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2015 14:11
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2021 15:12
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2015.02.015
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Elsevier
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2015.02.015

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