Research Initiation Award Grant: Understanding Risks and Disruptions in Supply Chains and their Effect on Firm and Supply Chain Performance

研究启动奖题为“了解供应链中的风险和中断及其对公司和供应链绩效的影响”，其总体目标是制定供应链风险管理策略，使组织及其工程师、决策者和技术经理能够制定更有效的策略，并管理和减轻供应链中的风险和中断。具体研究目标是确定供应链中风险和脆弱性的来源和范围，并确定不同风险来源和范围对企业和供应链绩效的影响。教育目标是提高学生研究供应链风险管理的兴趣和动力，开发新的教学材料，并对技术界进行供应链风险管理教育。该研究在风险管理方法上具有创新性，因为它涵盖了风险的阶段和范围，并定义和开发了供应链风险管理矩阵。它具有变革性，因为它首次全面介绍了不同行业供应链中风险阶段和范围的风险和中断管理。它促进了基于工程、技术和管理基础的综合学科——风险工程/风险管理的形成和建立。将使用定性和定量方法来收集有关风险和破坏性质的数据和信息。在文献回顾和关键变量识别的基础上，将开发一种用于收集数据的调查工具。 为了重新验证调查数据的结果，将使用美国航空业的数据。

The Research Initiation Award entitled - Understanding Risks and Disruptions in Supply Chains and their Effect on Firm and Supply Chain Performance - has the overall goal to develop strategies for risk management for supply chains to enable organizations and their engineers, decision makers, and technology managers to create more effective strategies and to manage and mitigate risks and disruptions in their supply chains. The specific research objectives are to identify the sources and scope of risks and vulnerabilities in supply chains, and to determine the effects of different sources and scopes of risk on firm and supply chain performance. The educational objectives are to promote interest and motivation of students to study risk management for supply chains, to develop new instructional materials, and to educate the technical community about risk management for supply chains.The research is innovative in its approach to risk management because it encompasses both the stages and scope of risks and defines and develops a matrix for risk management for supply chains. It is transformative since it provides the first comprehensive view of managing risks and disruptions within supply chains in different industries with respect to the stage and scope of the risks. It facilitates the formation and establishment of an integrative discipline - risk engineering/risk management - based on foundations from engineering, technology, and management. Both qualitative and quantitative methods will be used to collect data and information regarding the nature of risks and disruptions. Based on the review of the literature and identification of key variables, a survey instrument will be developed for the collection of data. In order to re-validate the findings from the survey data, data on the US airline industry will be used.