Continuity & Resilience Review: Volume 3 Issue 1

The building blocks of organizational resilience: a review of the empirical literature

Kijan Vakilzadeh, Alexander Haase

Resilience is critical for organizations in today's volatile business environment, yet some will survive (and even thrive) despite adversity, while others will perish. Why do some…

Realising supply chain resilience: an exploratory study of Irish firms' priorities in the wake of Brexit

Maurice Brady

The purpose of this research is to validate an industry-wide definition of supply chain resilience (SCRES) within the Irish supply chain sector and measure the key elements of…

Attitudes towards risk and decision-making within local government

Mairead Grimley, Kevin John Burnard

This case study aims to explore the perceptions and attitudes towards risk within a UK local authority and the subsequent effects on decision-making. Through a qualitative…

Towards fighting COVID-19: can servant leadership behaviour enhance commitment of medical knowledge-workers

Muhammed Ngoma, Rehema Namono, Sudi Nangoli, Hassan Bashir, Swafiyya Nakyeyune

This article examines the potential of increasing commitment of medical knowledge-workers (medical-KWs) in hospitals, particularly in handling deadly pandemics like COVID-19…

Strategies to manage product recalls in the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory case study of PPE supply chains

Roman Schumacher, Rob Glew, Naoum Tsolakis, Mukesh Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate strategies to manage product recalls where shortages are a critical threat, with impacts such as loss of life. The authors aim to…

Practices and mechanisms for increasing supply chain ​​resilience: the supply chain resilience sheaf

Adelson Pereira do Nascimento, Marcos Paulo Oliveira, Timothy J. Pettit, Marcelo Bronzo

This paper approaches the dynamics of supply chain resilience from the company from customer's point of view, seeking to illuminate which mechanisms and practices are used…