On 2 November, Professor Michael Bourlakis, Professor Alan Waller OBE and Professor Richard Wilding OBE presented an online webinar entitled “Supply Chain Management or Crisis Management?”. The panel discussed the issues currently facing supply chain management.

Want to learn more on the topic?

Cranfield alumni have access to their free Alumni Library Online service which provides a lot of relevant material on the challenges of supply chain logistics. Here are just a few examples of recent articles you can find in the databases:

In Emerald

Sarkis, J. (2020), "Supply chain sustainability: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 41 No. 1, pp. 63-73.

Mollenkopf, D.A., Ozanne, L.K. and Stolze, H.J. (2020), "A transformative supply chain response to COVID-19", Journal of Service Management, Vol. 32 No. 2, pp. 190-202.

Free, C. and Hecimovic, A. (2021), "Global supply chains after COVID-19: the end of the road for neoliberal globalisation?", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 58-84.

Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, A.B., Chiappetta Jabbour, C.J., Hingley, M., Vilalta-Perdomo, E.L., Ramsden, G. and Twigg, D. (2020), "Sustainability of supply chains in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) pandemic: lessons and trends", Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 117-122.

Matos, S.V., Schleper, M.C., Gold, S. and Hall, J.K. (2020), "The hidden side of sustainable operations and supply chain management: unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 40 No. 12, pp. 1749-1770

In Sage

Sinha D, Bagodi V, Dey D. The Supply Chain Disruption Framework Post COVID-19: A System Dynamics Model. Foreign Trade Review. 2020;55(4):511-534.

Ketchen DJ, Craighead CW. Research at the Intersection of Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Management, and Strategic Management: Opportunities Highlighted by COVID-19. Journal of Management. 2020;46(8):1330-1341.

Vanhanen H. COVID-19 and European security of supply: Growing in importance. European View. 2020;19(2):146-153.


Open Access articles in ScienceDirect from Elsevier
Although Elsevier do not generally permit alumni access to ScienceDirect material, don’t forget there are many articles available via open access.

Here are some examples of open access articles in this subject area with direct links to the full text:

Abhijit Barman, Rubi Das, Pijus Kanti De. Impact of COVID-19 in food supply chain: Disruptions and recovery strategy, Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 2, 2021, 100017.

Amine Belhadi, Sachin Kamble, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Angappa Gunasekaran, Nelson Oly Ndubisi, Mani Venkatesh. Manufacturing and service supply chain resilience to the COVID-19 outbreak: Lessons learned from the automobile and airline industries, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 163, 2021, 120447.

Sobhan Asian, Jian Wang, Geoff Dickson. Trade disruptions, behavioral biases, and social influences: Can luxury sporting goods supply chains be immunized?, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Volume 143, 2020, 102064.


Want to hear more from the speakers?
If you are interested in more research from these speakers, here are links to their publications in Cranfield’s university repository CERES.

Richard Wilding

Michael Bourlakis


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