Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management
| Autor: | Kim E. van Oorschot, Marianne Jahre, Harwin de Vries, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Kostas Selviaridis |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Technology and Operations Management |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Supply chain risk management
0209 industrial biotechnology Government Supply chain management Process (engineering) business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Stakeholder General Decision Sciences 02 engineering and technology 020901 industrial engineering & automation Publishing Originality Management of Technology and Innovation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Marketing business Baseline (configuration management) media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 41(10), 1569-1578. Emerald Group Publishing |
| ISSN: | 0144-3577 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/ijopm-03-2021-0175 |
| Popis: | PurposeThis “impact pathways” paper argues that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) could help address the worsening drug shortage problem in high-income countries. This significant societal problem poses difficult challenges to stakeholders given the complex and dynamic nature of drug supply chains. OSCM scholars are well positioned to provide answers, introducing new research directions for OSCM in the process.Design/methodology/approachTo substantiate this, the authors carried out a review of stakeholder reports from six European countries and the academic literature.FindingsThere is little academic research and no fundamental agreement among stakeholders about causes of shortages. Stakeholders have suggested many government measures, but little evidence exists on their comparative cost-effectiveness.Originality/valueThe authors discuss three pathways of impactful research on drug shortages to which OSCM could contribute: (1) Developing an evidence-based system view of drug shortages; (2) Studying the comparative cost-effectiveness of key government interventions; (3) Bringing supply chain risk management into the government and economics perspectives and vice versa. Our study provides a baseline for future COVID-19-related research on this topic. |
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