Ethan Nikookar

University of Wollongong | UOW · School of Management & Marketing

The purchasing and supply chain management (P&SCM) discipline assumes that supply chains are fragile systems, hence taking a “negative” approach toward disorder. Building on Taleb’s concept of antifragility—the ability to gain from disorder rather than avoiding it—, we challenge this traditional assumption. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that s...

Purpose Rethinking how to build resilience in supply chains is once again highlighted by COVID-19. Research on supply chain resilience has established flexibility as a firm-level antecedent that contributes to supply chain resilience. However, the authors know little about how supply chain flexibility is developed within a firm. Drawing on social c...

Purpose COVID-19 once again showed the importance of building resilience in supply chains. Extant research on supply chain resilience management has successfully identified a set of organizational antecedents that contribute to supply chain resilience. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which these antecedents are developed within a f...

Purpose Given the growing emphasis on environmental consciousness and sustainability as core principles within most companies, product-service systems are recognized as strategic approaches to achieving sustainability objectives. Consequently, understanding consumer acceptance of these systems is of paramount importance. This study seeks to explore...

The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (S.D.G.s) acknowledge cities as powerhouses of economic growth as evidenced by their contributions to global G.D.P. However, cities nevertheless contribute to 70 per cent of global carbon emissions and over 60 per cent of resource use and are still vulnerable to uncertainties, such as the recent impact of COVI...

Considerable research has focused on how supply chains can better handle disruptions. Consequently, concepts such as supply chain robustness and engineering resilience have emerged, with the dominant emphasis being that disruptions are a wholly bad thing to be avoided or resisted. However, recent discourse in the supply chain disruption management...

Research on supply chain resilience has successfully established flexibility as a firm-level antecedent that contributes to supply chain resilience. However, little is known about the mechanisms that develop flexibility within a firm. Drawing on the social capital theory and social network theory, the authors claim that supply chain managers' advic...

Research on supply chain resilience has successfully established flexibility as a firm-level antecedent that contributes to supply chain resilience. However, little is known about the mechanisms that develop flexibility within a firm. Drawing on the social capital theory and social network theory, the authors claim that supply chain managers’ advic...

Extant research on supply chain resilience has successfully identified a set of firm-level antecedents that contribute to supply chain resilience. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which these antecedents are developed within a firm. Drawing on the dynamic managerial capabilities view, we claim that supply chain managers play a criti...

Today, supply chains are becoming more complex due to globalisation and its effects. This complexity is compounded when strategies such as lean and agile are applied to improve efficiency and flexibility in supply chains. Resilience is required to overcome supply chain disruptions. Many resilience antecedents have been identified in the supply chai...

The ultimate goal of this study is to develop a comprehensive and competitive management system to enhance resilience capability of supply chains. In addition, the study aims to identify and eliminate barriers affecting resilience by identifying the factors may cause trouble in the near future. The theoretical framework was established to summarize...

This research is a case study research related to customer satisfaction, focuses on more effective service improvement and changes in regards with meeting the customer needs. Through empirical approach and related enterprises investigation, based on employees' perspective and end-user' perspective, it designs a questionnaire system to collect data....