Building robust supply chains by reducing vulnerability and improving resilience

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-81

  Vlachos, Dimitrios ^a   Iakovou, Eleftherios ^a   Papapanagiotou, Konstantinos ^a   Partsch, Daniel ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Disruption; Resilience; Risk mitigation; SCRM; Supply chain risk management; Supply chain security; Supply chain sustainability; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938213363     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2012.045899     Document Type: Article

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