A decade of progress in supply chain risk management: risk typology, emerging topics, and research collaborators

Abstract

Contemporary supply chains are facing myriad types of risks caused by unprecedented risk factors. This condition motivates us to develop a contemporary supply chain risk typology to help identify and monitor newly surfaced risks and reveal emerging topics and research collaborators to help foster impactful research in supply chain risk management (SCRM). In this paper, we applied the scholarly network analysis approach to critically analyse an extensive list of 345 SCRM journal articles published from 2011 to 2020. We address two research questions: What is the contemporary supply chain risk typology? How can SCRM research be mapped comprehensively in terms of its emerging topics and research collaborators? First, we propose a novel and holistic classification of supply chain risks based on three interconnected perspectives, namely the characteristics, the location, and the impact of risks. Second, we identify five emerging SCRM topics. In each of these emerging topics, we identify the prominent collaborators and the core author, the main research themes, commonly used approaches and theories, and potential research agendas for bridging the identified research gaps. This paper contributes to the field of SCRM by aiding scholars and practitioners in managing contemporary supply chains resiliently and sustainably.