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Post-Covid Supply Chain Dimensions Proposed Shift

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Understanding the Dynamics of New Normal for Supply Chains

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Covid 19 pandemics has demonstrated being a Black Swan, which is a non-expected event with a disruptive impact, forcing the world to change most of the former ways of value creation, collaboration, strategizing and decision making. Supply chain management and the logistics organizational function have also been impacted by this fierce disruption. The author shares some observations of what happened with supply chain decision making during the lockdown, and after that, he proposes several shifts in how strategy is designed, in how decisions are made, and in how should collaboration happen in the supply chain ecosystem. In all instances he describes the expected impacts on post-Covid supply chain decision making, expecting that the proposed shifts could be used by researchers, practitioners, and decision makers to propel further research and strategic experimentation.

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    Fabián Szulanski

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Szulanski, F., Qudrat-Ullah, H. (2022). Post-Covid Supply Chain Dimensions Proposed Shift. In: Qudrat-Ullah, H. (eds) Understanding the Dynamics of New Normal for Supply Chains. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07333-5_2

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