PhD research student
Thesis title: Studying the Impacts of Organisational Micro-foundations on Supply Chain Resilience
Qualifications: MA (business management-marketing) BSc (teaching English as a second language)
PhD start date: 1 October 2021
Supervisors: Associate Professor Sergio Biggemann, Professor Richard Greatbanks
Email borya399@student.otago.ac.nz
Research summary
In the turbulent business environment, firms' supply chains are prone to disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic. These disruptions are unexpected events that disrupt the normal flow of goods and services throughout the supply chain. Extensive research has been conducted to address these disruptions, leading to the concept of supply chain resilience. It is proposed as a capability that enables firms to anticipate, respond to, and recover from disruptions, allowing them to continue their operations. Supply chain resilience is a multi-dimensional concept. The emerging literature outlines several key dimensions that emphasize the importance of supply chain resilience, including persistence, adaptation, transformation etc.
For building supply chain resilience, we need to have organizational capabilities such as flexibility, transparency, agility, collaboration etc. However, it is not only at the organizational level that these capabilities should be considered; certain factors related to individuals, also play a role in building supply chain resilience. Research suggests that supply chain managers’ decisions influence the organizational capabilities. They exhibit heterogeneity in their decision-makings which may lead to variations in supply chain resilience among firms. Research links this heterogeneity in managerial decision-makings to individual-level factors, such as psychological and demographic characteristics like age, gender, and region. These individual-level factors are referred to as micro-foundations of organizational capabilities. While previous studies have highlighted the role of managers and their attributes in building organizational capabilities, the supply chain resilience literature falls short when it comes to how supply chain managers affect developing supply chain resilience dimensions. The objective of my research is to investigate the role of supply chain managers and explore the micro-foundations of supply chain resilience dimensions.
Research interests
- Supply chain management
- Supply chain resilience
- Micro-foundation
Honours and awards
- University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship