Covid-19: Operations Management Practices Holds Key to Recovery

Dear Colleagues,

We have witnessed significant disruptions due to the pandemic resulting from COVID-19. Particularly operations and supply chains experienced unprecedented disruptions in lead-times and order quantities, fragilities in network structures, and severe demand fluctuations (Ivanov, 2020a; Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020). The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and its global effects have shed light on the scope and scale of the cascading effects on global supply chains (Choi, 2020). In totality, the COVID-19 virus has exposed several missing links in the global supply chain design and the degree of preparation that these organizations have made in response to such pandemics. Recently, some scholars have attempted to deepen our understanding related to the effects of the pandemic resulting from COVID-19 on global supply chains and their designs (Ivanov et al. 2020b; Currie et al. 2020; Choi, 2020; Govindan et al. 2020), yet most of this literature offers anecdotal evidence and lacks theory-grounded research. Hence, there is is an urgent need to understand the cascading effects of pandemics on global supply chain designs. To attract articles we will circulate our CFPs via conferences and seminars. We will send the CFPs to various scholars across the globe engaged in Operations and Supply Chain Management research.

Dr. Rameshwar Dubey
Prof. Dr. Cyril Foropon
Guest Editors

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• supply chain adaptability
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