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Cyber resilience in organisations and supply chains: from perceptions to actions
No full textPurpose – This empirical study investigates the direct and indirect effects on managers’ perceptions of cyber risks, the implementation of cyber resilience strategies and the perceived effectiveness of these strategies for supply chains. Cyber risks pose significant threats to organisations and supply chains. Yet they remain insufficiently addressed and managed.
Design/methodology/approach – Primary data were collected from a sample of Italian organisations using a survey. The structural equation modelling methodology was employed to empirically investigate cyber resilience strategies in supply chains.
Findings – Results indicate that effective cyber resilience is linked to awareness of the negative impacts of cyber risks, particularly supply chain disruptions. This awareness leads to the adoption of various cyber resilience strategies. According to managers’ perceptions, several strategies are identified in the study as the most effective in enhancing the cyber resilience supply chains. The findings offer insights for managers regarding the relationship between cyber risk perceptions, supply chain cyber resilience strategies and their effectiveness. These relationships are studied using the theory of perceived risk and the dynamic capabilities theory.
Originality/value – This study advances knowledge for academics and practitioners in the fields of supply chain resilience and supply chain risk management. It contributes to the development of a risk-based thinking model in organisations and supply chains by drawing upon a dual theoretical perspective
Cyber resilience in Supply Chain Management: an empirical investigation in Italian firms
No full textSupply chains are more vulnerable than ever due to the complexity of today’s business environment. The supply chain resilience (SCRES) and supply chain risk management (SCRM) literatures have grown significantly in recent years; however, there are only few studies dealing with SCRES for specific emergent risks, such as cyber risks. Cyber risks can have detrimental effects on SCs and has been recognized in the literature as a key theme that is still under-investigated. This research aims at exploring perceptions and managerial approaches of Italian firms to create cyber resilience. Through an empirical investigation on a sample of 210 Italian firms, we test the conceptual model by using a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique
Supply Chain Resilience strategies to cope with disruptive events. A literature review and a study on Italian firms.
No full textOrganizations are recently facing severe global disruptive events requiring a reconfiguration of strategies and channel design in most industries. Supply Chain Resilience (SCRES) is crucial to cope with disruptions hence to meet the final objective of satisfying customer demand. This work has two main goals. It proposes a theoretical framework that analyzes the evolution in the interpretation of SCRES, based on a research of the University of Verona financed by Veneto Region. Then, it presents an empirical investigation – by using a Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach – on a sample of Italian companies that analyses supply chain (SC) strategies, based on research project developed by Politecnico di Bari and University of Verona sponsored by FISR. The results show key SCRES challenges and how SC strategies allow to cope with disruptive events and their impact on the resilience of supply chains
Structuring variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond.
Full text linkCurrent theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main research domain of Leonardo M. Savoia. The volume covers areas as different as phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon. A broad range of Romance languages is considered, as well as Albanian, Greek and Hungarian, shedding new light on many classical topics. The first section focuses on morphosyntax, both in the narrow sense and with regard to its interfaces. The second section focuses on clitics and pronouns. The third section deals with a number of issues in phonology and syntax-phonology interface. The last section turns the reader’s attention beyond formal linguistics itself and examines variation in the light of neurosciences, pathology, historical linguistics and political discourse
The role of consumers in logistics and supply chain management research: A systematic literature review
No full textThe advent of the internet followed by the increased use of mobile technologies, the rapid development of omni-channel supply chains and the wide span of information available to consumers, have shifted the positioning of the academic literature about logistics and supply chain management towards more consumer-oriented practices. Scholars have recently put an emphasis on the need to focus the SCM debate on consumers. The purpose of this review analysis is to explore the LSCM literature and to provide a broad understanding of how the role of consumers has been studied in the literature, investigating in detail the approached themes, the theories and methodologies used to frame the analyses and thus providing a basis for the knowledge advancement
Consumer‐Centric Supply Chain Management: A Literature Review, Framework, and Research Agenda
No full textThe dynamic landscape of consumer behavior is pressuring companies to adapt to rapidly evolving consumer expectations. The burgeoning interest in the supply chain management (SCM) literature toward consumer-centric research is capturing the attention of scholars and sparking diverse calls to action. While a significant growth in SCM research has centered on consumers as the unit of analysis over the past decade, it remains necessary to improve understanding of how the role of consumers as actors within the supply chain dynamic has evolved. We aim to enhance consumer-centric SCM research by conducting a systematic literature review that summarizes and synthesizes SCM studies that focus on consumers as the unit of analysis. Our review encompasses 174 articles from 16 leading journals. We bundle the literature based on two key trajectories: (i) major functions involved in SCM activities, and (ii) phases of the customer journey. To synthesize the literature, we develop a framework that encompasses the following elements: (i) factors influencing consumer-centric SCM, (ii) resultant consumer-related outcomes, and (iii) retail supply chain structures. Based on the literature review, we propose a research agenda that serves as a basis for advancing SCM research by identifying research questions that are relevant to scholars and practitioners
Digital transformation and sustainable performance: the mediating role of triple-A supply chain capabilities
No full textPurpose – Drawing on resource orchestration theory, this paper aims to empirically investigate the relationships between digital transformation (DT), triple-A supply chain capabilities (i.e. agility, adaptability and alignment) and sustainable performance. The research focuses on the pharmaceutical industry, which best represents a business environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected at different echelons of a globally oriented pharmaceutical supply chain, with the focal company located in the Netherlands. Empirical data were analyzed with partial least squares – structural equation modelling.
Findings – The findings reveal that DT enhances the triple-A supply chain capabilities. Nevertheless, not all three capabilities are necessary to improve overall sustainable performance. The results highlight that, among the three, only supply chain agility and adaptability significantly mediate the relationship between DT and sustainable performance.
Originality/value – This research supports the literature affirming that not all the triple-A supply chain capabilities equally affect sustainable performance. Moreover, it deepens the understanding of how orchestrating the triple-A capabilities at a firm level fosters overall sustainable performance, facing resource scarcity and investments in DT
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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