Examining the barriers to operationalization of humanitarian supply chains: lessons learned from COVID-19 crisis.

ABSTRACT: Humanitarian supply chains (HSC) have vital significance in mitigating different disruptive supply chain risks caused due to natural or man-made activities such as tsunami, earthquakes, flooding, warfare, or the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Each kind of disaster poses a unique set of challenges to the operationalization of HSC. This study attempts to determine the critical barriers to the operationalization of HSC in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, we determined and validated 10 critical barriers to HSC operationalization through a Delphi method. Further, we analyzed the barriers by computing the driving and dependence power of each barrier to determine the most critical ones. To do so, we coined a distinct form of interpretive structural modeling (ISM) by amalgamating it with

SUBMITTER: Dohale V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9152661 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature