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The Human Factor in Supply Chain Risk Management

Abstract

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In a three paper essay series we address the human impact in SCRM from the microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. First, using a positivist theory building approach, we synthesize behavioral risk management and supply chain risk management theory to propose behavioral supply chain risk management as a new topic area. This paper is microeconomic in nature and focuses mostly on individuals as the unit of analysis in a SCRM context. Second, we introduce cross-impact analysis as a scenariobased supplier selection methodology. We demonstrate how cross-impact analysis can be used to provide supply chain decision-makers with probability estimates of the future viability of the members of a given set of possible suppliers in a backdrop of macroeconomic risk. The third and final paper in the series incorporates the probability estimates resulting from a cross-impact analysis exercise into a hybrid stochastic mixed-integer programming (SMIP) technique CIA-SMIP. We demonstrate how the CIA-SMIP approach can be utilized as a single-source supplier selection model. In its totality, this dissertation represents a step towards the theoretical framing of the human impact on SCRM into two main distinguishable areas: microeconomic and macroeconomic.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Business, Business Information Technology
Department dc:contributor.department
Management
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2019

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Kwaramba, Shingirai C.
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Nottingham, Quinton J.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Russell, Roberta S.
  • Wang, Gang Alan
  • Cook, Deborah F.
  • Zobel, Christopher W.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:18901
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/87438

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citation

Kwaramba, Shingirai C.. The Human Factor in Supply Chain Risk Management. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87438