We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in...

Buyers and suppliers have diverging interests about trade-credit maturities: buyers desire long payment periods as a source of cheap funding, while suppliers prefer swift payments to avoid locking up scarce liquidity in idle assets. A fast-growing financial product innovation - supply-chain...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Risk Management (RM) are two current business management approaches that are based on relatively long historical developments. RM has been steadily developing since the middle of the 20th century while SCM, which started in the early 1990s, is a more recent...