Enhancing Resilience in International Supply Chains: The Role of Sustainable Development in a VUCA World
Enhancing Resilience in International Supply Chains: The Role of Sustainable Development in a VUCA World

Summary/Abstract: In today’s VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) world, which exerts strong pressure on international and global supply chains, academia and business are actively seeking new strategies to foster their sustainable and uninterrupted development. The results of our study, using statistical methods such as analysis of variance, show that the implementation of sustainable development principles in supply chain management positively affects the resilience of supply chains to sustainability risk across the pre-disruption, during-disruption and post-disruption phases. This, however, is contingent on a process-based approach to supply chain management and a high level of managerial awareness of the various types of risks to supply chains. Furthermore, our findings confirm that the key organizational characteristics are significant determinants of this resilience. Specifically, we observed that company size, the origin of the capital, and the degree of internationalization all affect supply chain resilience across the three disruption phases. Sustainable and resilient (SUS-RES) supply chains, which employ proactive, concurrent, and reactive approaches, are particularly noticeable in the supply chains of large enterprises with foreign capital or foreign branches. This suggests that managing international supply chain sustainably can also improve their resilience.

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