Call for paper: Exploring supply chain structural dynamics: new disruptive technologies and disruption risks
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2019-09-30
影响因子: 5.134
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 1区
• 小类 : 工程:工业 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程:制造 - 2区
• 小类 : 运筹学与管理科学 - 2区
Overview
Supply chains are complex, dynamic network systems that evolve over time and change their structures (Gross et al. 2018). Supply chain structural dynamics theory studies changes in network design and topology and develops methods to manage and optimize the supply chain processes when experiencing structural changes (Ivanov et al. 2010, Ivanov 2018). Supply chain structural dynamics can be considered in light of both positive and negative changes, such as new disruptive technologies (e.g., blockchain) or disruption risks (e.g., natural disasters and the ripple effect (Dolgui et al. 2018)), respectively. For example, Industry 4.0 and additive manufacturing are driving changes in supply chain structural designs, i.e., the structures of supply chains are be adapted to new technology. Severe natural disasters may result in the temporary unavailability of some suppliers, or even of large supplier clusters. In such a case, the structural design of the supply chain is forced to change. In addition, sharing and circular economies are changing value chain structures. Thus both strategic structural transformations and operative, event-driven structural reconfigurations are being encountered more frequently. The management and optimization of structural dynamics plays a crucial role in determining a firm’s competitiveness in the markets.
This Special Issue seeks to attract new research in supply chain structural dynamics, considering disruptions in supply chains from both positive and negative perspectives. Examples of positive disruptive technologies and paradigms include:
Blockchain and supply chain structural dynamics
Industry 4.0 and supply chain structural dynamics
Sharing and circular economy and supply chain structural dynamics