Hasan, Fakhrul and Mohammad Raijul, Islam and Ishrat, Faria (2022) COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Supply Chains of UK-Based Multinational Manufacturing Companies. Business Ethics and Leadership, 6 (2). pp. 44-67. ISSN 2520-6761
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Abstract
This study sought to evaluate the main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the supply chain structures and arrangements of UK-based multinational manufacturing companies. The posed objectives were realised via the mixed methods research strategy involving the use of a quantitative survey and its triangulation with the results of qualitative interviews conducted with managers of such organisations. The findings strongly suggest that the seven identified risk dimensions were influencing the supply chains integrity of these companies both prior to and after the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, most of these dimensions were severely affected by the pandemic, which was demonstrated by both the performed Friedman tests and the statements voiced by the interviewees. While some mitigation strategies were cited as relatively effective for addressing the emerging risks, most of the respondents noted that the systemic nature of encountered problems and their magnitude made it difficult for individual companies to avoid, mitigate, or transfer these risks.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | opyright: © 2022 by the author. Licensee Sumy State University, Ukraine. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Supply chain; Covid-19; the UK; Manufacturing companies |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Business, Law and Criminology > Liverpool Hope Business School |
| Depositing User: | Fakhrul Hasan |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 13:29 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 13:29 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3555 |
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