Purpose This “impact pathways” paper argues that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) could help address the worsening drug shortage problem in high-income countries. significant societal poses difficult challenges to stakeholders given complex dynamic nature of chains. OSCM scholars are well positioned provide answers, introducing new research directions for process. Design/methodolog...

In this paper, we apply game theory to study the price competition between drugstores and hospitals in China’s pharmaceutical supply chain. Motivated by drug shortages disparity problems, build a simplified model with one supplier, hospital, drugstore which sellers sell kind of compete on price. The hospital receives discount from government when ordering both face price-sensitive uncertain dem...

the list of drugs in short supply, perhaps because they are more likely to be subject to discontinuations resulting from violations of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) cited by the FDA. Halted production often results in plant closures. In 2010, manufacturing problems forced Hospira to recall AstraZeneca’s propofol (Diprivan). “Some of my colleagues were close to shutting down operating rooms,...