Output decline has been a feature of the transition economies in the initial post-communist period, including in those countries that belonged to the former Soviet Union. However, explanations for the decline and its persistence have not been easy to find, and mostly they have focussed upon domestic factors in each economy. The theory of disorganization introduced the idea that disrupted supply...

In this paper, we study demand disruption in service supply chain with a client and a vendor. We find the positive demand disruption worse off the double marginalization under wholesale contracts. To address the challenge, we propose a two-part tariff contract under which, the client pays the vendor a fixed fee besides the wholesale price if the service rate was met. The results show the channe...

Supply chain risks come in a variety of forms: disruptions to material flows, product quality problems, information systems breakdowns, and economic instability (Chopra & Sodhi, 2004; Zsidisin et al., 2000). The recent literature in supply chain management recognizes the importance of managing such risks in the age of global supply chains. Various researchers have discussed firms’ increasing ex...

With the increasing emphasis on supply chain vulnerabilities, effective mathematical tools for analyzing and understanding appropriate supply chain risk management are now attracting much attention. This paper presents a stochastic model of the multi-stage global supply chain network problem, incorporating a set of related risks, namely, supply, demand, exchange, and disruption. We provide a ne...

This paper focuses on the importance of decoupling recurrent supply risk and disruption risk when planning appropriate mitigation strategies. We show that bundling the two uncertainties leads a manager to underutilize a reliable source while over utilizing a cheaper but less reliable supplier. As in Dada, Petruzzi and Schwarz [6], we show that increasing quantity from a cheaper but less reliabl...

With the increase in environmental awareness, competitions and government policies, implementation of green supply chain management activities to sustain production and conserve resources is becoming more necessary for different organizations. However, it is difficult to successfully implement green supply chain (GSC) activities because of the risks involved. These risks alongside their resourc...

Rumor spreading is an important factor resulting in supply chain demand disruption. A supply-chain demand change prediction model is developed based on a new rumor spreading model, Susceptible-Infective-Isolated-Immune (SI2I) model. In this model, the impact of rumors on demand can be quantitatively reflected by the proportion of ignorants and immunes in the population.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to shed light on damage to water supply facilities and the state of water resource operation at disaster base hospitals in Miyagi Prefecture (Japan) in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011), in order to identify issues concerning the operational continuity of hospitals in the event of a disaster. METHODS In addition to interview and written ...