Title
SMEs in the face of crisis: The supply chain risk management perspective
Date Issued
03 June 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Tallinn University of Technology
Publisher(s)
IGI Global
Abstract
COVID-19 has shown how fragile our societies and economies are. Supply chains have particularly been affected. We all had to learn again that the basic supply of some goods is not as crisis-proof as we thought. Moreover, the strong division of labour and the concentration on a few companies in certain areas present considerable weaknesses in the case of a new external crisis such as the pandemic. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by the current pandemic, particularly as they are highly sensitive to external threats. Using data collected between December 2020 and January 2021 through semi-structured interviews conducted with owners and/or managers of SMEs located in six different European countries (i.e., Austria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, and Portugal), the chapter aims to provide fresh perspectives on how SMEs address supply chain risk management in times of an external and dynamic crisis.
Start page
205
End page
220
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Negocios, Administración
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85137231299
ISBN
9781799897156
Resource of which it is part
Increasing Supply Chain Performance in Digital Society
ISBN of the container
9781799897170
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus