Supply Chain Transformation amid a Global Crisis
© Gennadiy L. BRODETSKIY, Victoria D. GERAMI, Denis A. GUSEV, Alexander V. KOLIK, 2023
Received 10.04.2023.
Revised 12.05.2023.
Accepted 22.08.2023.
Gennadiy L. BRODETSKIY (gbrodetskiy@hse.ru), ORCID: 0000-0002-3483-1078,
National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, 28/11, Shabolovka Str., Moscow 119049, Russian Federation.
Victoria D. GERAMI (vgerami@hse.ru), ORCID: 0000-0002-2714-3082,
National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, 28/11, Shabolovka Str., Moscow 119049, Russian Federation.
Denis A. GUSEV (dgussev@hse.ru), ORCID: 0000-0002-2173-1270,
National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, 28/11, Shabolovka Str., Moscow 119049, Russian Federation.
Alexander V. KOLIK (akolik@hse.ru), ORCID: 0000-0003-3322-2462,
National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, 28/11, Shabolovka Str., Moscow 119049, Russian Federation.
The article is devoted to the process of transformation of international supply chains in a crisis caused by the overlapping of three powerful negative factors: the consequences of the financial and economic crisis of 2008, of the COVID-19 pandemic and of economic sanctions against the Russian Federation. The authors point out that the destabilizing effect of the crisis primarily affected the functioning of the global supply chain system, one of the main components of the world economy. Under the current conditions, the normal functioning of supply chains is disrupted or is becoming nearly impossible due to disruptions in transport and commodity flows, denials of service, unpredictable delays, significant fluctuations in prices for goods and services, etc. The article emphasizes that the system of criteria and the basic principles of supply chain management, which have been established over decades of relatively stable development, are currently ineffective or completely inapplicable and need to be substantially adjusted. The theoretical recommendations identified by the authors are compared with the results of their survey of 240 Russian companies representing industry, distribution of goods, retail, logistics services and other segments. The survey made it possible to identify both the main negative factors affecting the supply chains and the most significant course of action for Russian business in order to reconfigure the import in crisis conditions. Based on the available theoretical and empirical data, the authors make an assumption about the new characteristics of international supply chains that they will acquire in the foreseeable future, both in terms of the general ideology of management and operation, and in terms of operational decisions.
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About the authors:
Gennadiy L. BRODETSKIY, Doct. Sci. (Tech.), Professor, Tenured Professor of the Department of Operational Management and Logistics, Graduate School of Business.
Victoria D. GERAMI, Doct. Sci. (Tech.), Professor, Professor of the Department of Operational Management and Logistics, Graduate School of Business.
Denis A. GUSEV, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Operational Management and Logistics, Higher School of Business.
Alexander V. KOLIK, Cand. Sci. (Tech.), Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Operational Management and Logistics, Graduate School of Business.
Authors’ contribution: all authors have contributed equally.
Competing interests: no potential competing financial or non-financial interest was reported by the authors.
Funding: no funding was received for conducting this study.
For citation:
Brodetskiy G., Gerami V., Gusev D., Kolik A. Supply Chain Transformation amid a Global Crisis. Analysis & Forecasting. Journal of IMEMO, 2023, no 2, pp. 14-23. https://doi.org/10.20542/afij-2023-2-14-23
