دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی یک تجزیه و تحلیل مطالعاتی بر روی لجستیک انسانی و مدیریت زنجیره تامین - اشپرینگر 2017

Abstract

The area of disaster management has become increasingly prominent in a context of frequent political, religious change and conflict, and within it, the field of knowledge on humanitarian logistics and supply chain management (HLSCM) has attracted attention from a variety of stakeholders, such as scholars, practitioners and policy makers. Consequently, humanitarian logistics and supply chain research has seen a significant increase in the quan tity of works emerging, particularly journal articles. In this context, we aim to systematize the selected contemporary literature on humanitarian logistics and supply chain management. After identifying the relevant literature on Scopus and Web of Science, we chart a systematization of this body of knowledge by applying a system of codes and classifications to it. Based on research gaps found, we propose an original research agenda for further developing the humanitarian logistics and supply chain management field, as suggested avenues for future research.

6 Conclusions

This article synthesizes the research literature on HLSCM in order to organize it under a conceptual map and integrate existing ideas to create new ways of thinking and understanding this theme, using articles identified in Scopus and Web of Science using the terms “Humanitarian Supply Chain” or “Humanitarian Logistics”. As a result of our initial search, 155 articles were refined using the filters “Article”, “Review”, “Article in Press”, “Source Type Journal” and “English Language”, which produced 87 articles available for full analysis and review.

The main results of our analysis are that the majority of our reviewed articles were theoretical, and as a consequence, few of them discussed issues related to localisation of disaster, type of disaster, phase of disaster relief, and type of humanitarian organization. Their focus was mainly on logistics.

This article contributes to the literature of the HLSCM field by proving a synthesis of this theme and highlighting new perspectives on how it has been addressed, along with potential development areas to further guide future research. The limitations of this article relate to the cognitive process of analysing the identified articles herein, and the filters selected to choose the articles reviewed, which we discussed.

Nonetheless, based on our findings we have proposed six new research gaps and developed an original conceptual map which charts five streams on how to further integrate the humanitarian logistics and supply chain management field, which both represent a new way to further understand this theme.

Further research is specifically needed to apply the concepts of HLSCM in different contexts. Here, wider geographical perspectives could empirically test the global validity of theories used in HLSCM research and understand context dependency in HLSCM. A requirement for further empirical and theoretical work exists regarding international humanitarian operations, as well as not-for-profit organizations.