Purpose

Neo-institutional theories and their constructs have so far only received limited attention in supply chain management literature. As recent supply chain disruptions and their ripple effects affect actors on a broader institutional level, supply chains are confronted with multiple new and emerging, often conflicting, institutional demands. This study aims to unpack the notion of institutional complexity behind supply chain disruptions and present a novel institutional framework to lower supply chain susceptibility and increase supply chain resilience.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors identify the patterns of complexity that shape the supply chain susceptibility, namely, distance, diversity and ambiguity, and present three institutional responses to susceptibility to increase supply chain resilience, namely, institutional entrepreneurship, institutional alignment and institutional layering.

Findings

This paper analyses the current situational relevance to better understand the various and patterned ways how logics influence both supply chain susceptibility and the supply chain resilience. The authors derive six propositions on how complexity can be reduced for supply chain susceptibility and can be increased for supply chain resilience.

Originality/value

By expanding and extending research on institutional complexity to supply chains, the authors broaden how researchers in supply chain management view supply chain susceptibility, thereby providing managers with theory to think differently about supply chains and its resilience.

中文翻译：

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供应链管理中的新制度主义：从供应链敏感性到供应链弹性

目的

迄今为止，新制度理论及其构建在供应链管理文献中只受到有限的关注。由于最近的供应链中断及其连锁反应影响了更广泛的制度层面的参与者，供应链面临着多种新的、新兴的、往往相互冲突的制度要求。本研究旨在揭示供应链中断背后的制度复杂性概念，并提出一种新颖的制度框架，以降低供应链的敏感性并提高供应链的弹性。

设计/方法论/途径

作者确定了影响供应链敏感性的复杂性模式，即距离、多样性和模糊性，并提出了三种制度对敏感性的反应，以提高供应链的弹性，即制度创业、制度调整和制度分层。

发现

本文分析了当前的情境相关性，以更好地理解逻辑如何影响供应链敏感性和供应链弹性的各种模式化方式。作者就如何降低复杂性以提高供应链的敏感性以及如何提高复杂性以提高供应链的弹性提出了六个命题。

原创性/价值

通过将制度复杂性的研究扩展到供应链，作者拓宽了供应链管理研究人员对供应链敏感性的看法，从而为管理者提供了以不同方式思考供应链及其弹性的理论。