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Open research questions in Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

281 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,005 Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • Investigating the application of the proposed methodology to other industries - Comparing the performance of the proposed methodology with other state-of-the-art methods - Analyzing the features that are most influential in predicting backorders - Exploring the use of other resampling strategies to improve model performance

    Enhancing supply chain efficiency with AI: predicting and preventing customer backorders · 2026 · DOI

  • The need for effective supply chain management to enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs, and ensure timely fulfillment of customer demand. The lack of a methodological framework for predicting and preventing customer backorders using AI. The challenge of managing highly imbalanced data in supply chain forecasting.

    Enhancing supply chain efficiency with AI: predicting and preventing customer backorders · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of the relationship between urban polycentricity and supply chain risk. The need for a novel measure of urban polycentricity that captures the complex spatial distribution of urban functions. The gap in empirical evidence on the impact of urban polycentricity on firm-level economic activity.

    How urban polycentricity influences supply chain risk: evidence from China · 2026 · DOI

  • Disruptions in maritime logistics can trigger cascading effects across global industries. Geopolitical factors, including trade wars, sanctions, and territorial disputes, can disrupt shipping lanes and close key ports. Climate change is expected to exacerbate disruptions in maritime logistics, leading to more frequent disruptions in the future.

    Determining Logistical Strategies to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions in Maritime Shipping for a Resilient and Sustainable Global Economy · 2025 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature concerning integrated assessment of disruption responses in maritime logistics. The gap is related to the lack of a comprehensive framework for evaluating resilience strategies in maritime logistics.

    Determining Logistical Strategies to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions in Maritime Shipping for a Resilient and Sustainable Global Economy · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research could explore other dimensions of open innovation, such as outbound and inbound innovation. Data triangulation from diverse sources or the use of objective performance metrics may improve the reliability of future results. Gathering multilevel data, such as additional insights from top management teams, will allow a comparative group analysis to be performed.

    The Role of Open Innovation in Enhancing Organizational Resilience and Sustainability Performance Through Organizational Adaptability · 2025 · DOI

  • The mediating effect of adaptability in shaping the pathways of open innovation remains unexplored. Few studies have concurrently approached open innovation from the breadth and depth dimensions with respect to performance or resilience. The study identifies a gap in the existing literature regarding the role of open innovation in enhancing organizational resilience and sustainability performance.

    The Role of Open Innovation in Enhancing Organizational Resilience and Sustainability Performance Through Organizational Adaptability · 2025 · DOI

  • The study faces challenges in collecting and processing large amounts of data from non-financial listed companies in China's A-shares. The research needs to address the complexity of supply chain resilience and its impact on ESG performance. The study must consider the differences in regional structures and technological levels of companies in China.

    The Impact of Digital Transformation on ESG Performance: The Role of Supply Chain Resilience · 2024 · DOI

  • The impact of digital transformation on corporate ESG performance from the perspective of supply chain resilience is not well understood. There is a need for research on the relationship between digital transformation and corporate ESG performance.

    The Impact of Digital Transformation on ESG Performance: The Role of Supply Chain Resilience · 2024 · DOI

  • the need for businesses to adapt quickly to changing market dynamics - the importance of capitalizing on emerging possibilities - the challenge of linking innovative capacity to sustainability and building sustainability in dynamic environments

    Leveraging Innovation Capability and Organizational Resilience for Business Sustainability Among Small and Medium Enterprises: A PLS-SEM Approach · 2024 · DOI

  • Future empirical validation is needed, particularly in relation to governance integration and cross-border alignment

    An Overview of Critical Success Factors for Digital Shipping Corridors: A Roadmap for Maritime Logistics Modernization · 2025 · DOI

  • further research is needed to successfully link innovative capacity to sustainability and build sustainability in dynamic environments, - the study suggests that future research should focus on how to help SMEs prioritize investing in innovations, - the study highlights the need for further research on the relationship between innovation and sustainability

    Leveraging Innovation Capability and Organizational Resilience for Business Sustainability Among Small and Medium Enterprises: A PLS-SEM Approach · 2024 · DOI

  • Originality/value This research contributes by empirically demonstrating complete mediation effects and providing evidence from an under-researched emerging market context.

    From visibility to performance: the mediating roles of supply chain resilience and sustainability in emerging markets · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should examine these relationships across industries and geographic contexts, as well as the temporal dynamics and technological moderators.

    From visibility to performance: the mediating roles of supply chain resilience and sustainability in emerging markets · 2026 · DOI

  • Although prior research has extensively explored the antecedents of organizational resilience, the mechanisms through which crisis leadership enhances organizational resilience, particularly through cognitive pathways and under varying levels of environmental turbulence, remain underexplored.

    Crisis Leadership, Organizational Sensemaking, and Organizational Resilience: The Moderating Effect of Environmental Turbulence · 2025 · DOI

  • We acknowledge that the generalizability of the findings may be limited by the single-country (China) sampling frame.

    Crisis Leadership, Organizational Sensemaking, and Organizational Resilience: The Moderating Effect of Environmental Turbulence · 2025 · DOI

  • Yet, the enabling conditions for their effective implementation remain insufficiently explored.

    An Overview of Critical Success Factors for Digital Shipping Corridors: A Roadmap for Maritime Logistics Modernization · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research could explore other sectors or adopt longitudinal approaches to track change over time.

    Enhancing the impact of transformational leadership on sustainability through agility and resilience with application of Lewins change model in sustainable manufacturing · 2025 · DOI

  • It addresses gaps in understanding the sequencing of SCDCs and their role in enabling organizations to anticipate, respond to, and recover from disruptions in agri-food supply chains.

    Supply chain resilience through collaborative networks and dynamic capabilities: evidence from an agri-food productive chain in Colombia · 2025 · DOI

  • The findings reveal institutional risks, particularly inadequate digital transaction regulations and insufficient data governance, as the most critical barriers, followed by technological risks such as cybersecurity vulnerabilities and infrastructure gaps.

    Systematic prioritization of e-business risks in China West Africa digital cooperation using empirical evidence from Ghana · 2025 · DOI

  • However, existing research on supply chain resilience management, particularly regarding the identification and quantitative analysis of resilience factors in the coal power supply chain, remains insufficient.

    Resilience factors and mechanisms in the coal power supply chain: A quantitative analysis using fuzzy DEMATEL, ISM, and ANP methods · 2025 · DOI

  • However, few studies have investigated how information technology (IT) capabilities promote organizational resilience.

    Impact of information technology capabilities on organizational resilience: the mediating role of social capital · 2024 · DOI

  • However, exploring supply chain imperatives from sustainability dimensions still remains underexplored, presenting a significant research gap, particularly in the fashion retail sector.

    Modeling the supply chain sustainability imperatives in the fashion retail industry: Implications for sustainable development · 2024 · DOI

  • While there is an emerging body of literature linking resilience and sustainability in supply chains, specific aspects such as nature of the connection remain underexplored.

    The intersection of supply chain resilience and sustainability from a theoretical and practical perspective: An integrated framework · 2024 · DOI

  • Future research could explore sector-specific risk management practices and their impact on supply chain robustness, underscoring the imperative for SMEs to adopt proactive and integrated risk management approaches to thrive in a complex and evolving economic environment.

    Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty: Navigating Supply Chain Challenges Through Proactive Risk Surveillance and Mitigation Strategies among SMEs in ASEAN countries · 2024 · DOI

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