This paper investigates the emergence of retail clusters on supply chains comprised of suppliers, retailers, and consumers. An agent-based model is employed to study retail location choice in a market of homogeneous goods and a market of complementary goods. On a circle comprised of discrete...

World markets are highly interlinked and local economies extensively rely on global supply and value chains. Consequently, local production disruptions, for instance caused by extreme weather events, are likely to induce indirect losses along supply chains with potentially global repercussions....

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread for over a year and affected many aspects, including food supply chain. One of the impacts of COVID-19 in food supply chain is the reduction of food production capacity. It is necessary to develop the optimum food supply chain strategy by determining the...