Supply chain models frequently tackle manufacturing issues but must also account for the distinctive nature of the disease. Conversely, most epidemiological models solely concentrate on the disease's spread but must address logistical challenges. The medical supply chain encounters numerous...

Cross-border supply chains and international trade enabled the manufacturing and delivery of billions of vaccine doses to inoculate the world against COVID-19. At the same time, the pandemic revealed how the World Trade Organization (WTO) must change to become more useful in the face of a public...

The restrictive measures that have been imposed from March 2020 on business activities in several countries to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic can be interpreted as shocks to global supply chains. We propose some agent-based models to evaluate the economic effects of different...

The paper explores how the Sri Lankan tea exporting companies used their resilient capabilities to survive the unexpected disruptions before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers used interpretivism philosophy with a qualitative approach. The study used the...

Experiences arising from recent geo-political tensions, natural disasters such as the 2011 Japanese Tōhoku Earthquake, the Covid-19 Pandemic and the 2022 Russo – Ukrainian war have all illustrated the fragility of the global supply chains to exogenous shocks. Shocks always occur, but the...

The outbreak of an epidemic disease may pose significant treats to human beings and may further lead to a global crisis. In order to control the spread of an epidemic, the effective management of rapidly increased medical waste through establishing a temporary reverse logistics system is of...