When a supplier experiences a disruption, it learns how to better prevent and recover from future disruptions. As suppliers learn to become more resilient, the overall supply network also learns to become more resilient. This research draws on the organizational learning literature to introduce...

This paper studies retailer-sponsored financing (RSF), an emerging practice of retailers in developing economies to help capital-constrained suppliers obtain external financing for production. Under RSF, the retailer agrees to share the loan-repayment responsibility with the supplier – the...