Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LOGISTICS-RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 85-104Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13675567.2015.1103845
Keywords
Supply chain management; humanitarian logistics; sustainability; disaster rehabilitation; government; case studies
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [143578]
- University of Neuchatel
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Disaster response operations aim at helping as many victims as possible in the shortest time, with limited consideration of the socio-economic context. During the disaster rehabilitation phase, the perspective needs to broaden and comprehensively take into account the local environment. We propose a framework of sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SCM) that facilitates such comprehensive performance. We conceptualise the framework by combining literature from the fields of sustainable and humanitarian SCM. We test the framework through an analytic induction process by means of multiple case studies of four relief organisations. Our framework suggests that supply chain design needs to be aligned not only to relief organisations' enablers, but also to the population's long-term requirements as well as any socio-economic and governmental contingency factors. A good fit between these dimensions leads to sustainable performance. The framework provides an instrument for relief organisations to achieve sustainable performance in the disaster rehabilitation phase.
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