Blockchain adoption or contingent sourcing? Advancing food supply chain resilience in the post-pandemic era

ABSTRACT: In the post-pandemic era, food supply chains and firms therein are facing unprecedented severe challenges, because once infection is detected, numerous products must be recalled or abandoned, and both suppliers and retailers in the supply chain suffer enormous loss. To survive under the pandemic, retailers have adopted different sourcing strategies, such as contingent sourcing, which, in turn, affect the upstream suppliers and hence the resilience of the whole supply chain. With the rapid development of digital technologies, retailers nowadays can utilize blockchain as a reliable and efficient way to reduce product risk and hence advance the resilience of food supply chains by improving product traceability and inspection accuracy, and making sourcing transparent. In this paper, we develop

SUBMITTER: Shi X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9930005 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature