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  • Blog post 24 August 2022

    Collaboration, Coordination, and Communication: how to build supply resilience in global supply networks

    By Sam Roscoe.

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    Summary CITP publication

    Professor Sam Roscoe reports back from the 2022 Supply Chain Ministerial Forum. Focusing on transportation and logistics issues, he flags three key issues raised at the Forum and the potential ways to address these and build better resilience in global supply networks.

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  • Academic Paper 20 July 2022

    Emerging Technologies in Emergency Situations

    By Sam Roscoe et al.

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    Summary Pre-CITP publication

    The world is witnessing an unprecedented upheaval in global operations and supply chains. Increasingly occurring natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have plunged organisations into a state of emergency, with many fighting for their very survival. Emergency situations typically require urgent action to restore operations to the previous scenario or new strategies for survivability and adaptation to an entirely new context. Due to the scale and immediacy of these events, a range of actors is often involved, including governments, non-governmental organisations, and businesses, that need to work together to mitigate threats to life and property. Emerging technologies such as those related to industry 4.0 are well-positioned to help organisations rebuild and reconfigure their resilience capabilities.

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  • Academic Paper 20 July 2022

    Geopolitical disruptions and the manufacturing location decision in multinational company supply chains: A Delphi study on Brexit

    By Sam Roscoe et al.

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    Summary Pre-CITP publication

    This study investigates the impact of geopolitical disruptions on the manufacturing supply chain location decision of managers in UK multinational firms. The context of study is the UK manufacturing sector and its response to the UK's decision to leave the European Union or Brexit. The study shows that policy-related uncertainty is a primary influencing factor in the manufacturing location decision, outweighing the importance of uncertainty as an influencer of governance mode choices. The authors find that during geopolitical disruptions managers make location decisions in tight time frames with incomplete and imperfect information, in situations of high perceived uncertainty.

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  • Academic Paper 20 July 2022

    Redesigning global supply chains during compounding geopolitical disruptions: the role of supply chain logics

    By Sam Roscoe et al.

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    Summary Pre-CITP publication

    This study identifies a constrained system of reasoning (decision-making logic) employed by managers when they redesign their supply chains in situations of heightened uncertainty. When redesigning global supply chains, the authors find that managerial decision-making logic is constrained by three distinct environmental conditions: 1) the perceived intensity of institutional pressures; 2) the relative mobility of suppliers and supply chain assets, and; 3) the perceived severity of the potential disruption risk. Intense government pressure and persistent geopolitical risk tend to impact firms in the same industry, resulting in similar approaches to decision-making regarding supply chain design. However, where suppliers are relatively immobile and supply chain assets are relatively fixed, a dominant logic is consistently present.

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