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Business collaboration is increasingly the focus of management scholars and practitioners alike. Collaboration brings both benefits to organizations and numerous challenges. In humanitarian supply chain management, the response to events that impact people, communities, and businesses frequently involves the response of multiple organizations. Collaboration in this process is a chaotic and uncertain environment also difficult for the situation. Humanitarian supply chains are part of a service-based industry; thus, interactions and relationships with people are necessary, further increasing the management complexities. Managing humanitarian supply chains is a people business that still appears to be anchored in an efficiency paradigm focusing on cost reduction. This paper examines the challenges and issues involved in collaboration and coordination in the context of the humanitarian supply chains through the lens of international human resource management practices. It suggests greater emphasis on developing an effectiveness paradigm that focuses on value creation, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. Understanding collaboration in the complex context of humanitarian supply chains provides opportunities for application of this learning from the business world.
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Das, L. (2016). Role of Humanitarian Supply Chain Management in Various Disaster Situations Across the Globe. In: Sahay, B., Gupta, S., Menon, V. (eds) Managing Humanitarian Logistics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2416-7_18
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