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The Emergent Role of Digital Technologies in the Context of Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Systematic Literature Review

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  • J. Marić

    (Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie)

  • C. Galera-Zarco

    (The Bartlett [London] - UCL - University College of London [London])

  • M. Opazo-Basáez

    (DEUSTO - Universidad de Deusto)

Abstract

The role of digital technologies (DTs) in humanitarian supply chains (HSC) has become an increasingly researched topic in the operations literature. While numerous publications have dealt with this convergence, most studies have focused on examining the implementation of individual DTs within the HSC context, leaving relevant literature, to date, dispersed and fragmented. This study, through a systematic literature review of 110 articles on HSC published between 2015 and 2020, provides a unified overview of the current state-of-the-art DTs adopted in HSC operations. The literature review findings substantiate the growing significance of DTs within HSC, identifying their main objectives and application domains, as well as their deployment with respect to the different HSC phases (i.e., Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery). Furthermore, the findings also offer insight into how participant organizations might configure a technological portfolio aimed at overcoming operational difficulties in HSC endeavours. This work is novel as it differs from the existing traditional perspective on the role of individual technologies on HSC research by reviewing multiple DTs within the HSC domain. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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  • J. Marić & C. Galera-Zarco & M. Opazo-Basáez, 2022. "The Emergent Role of Digital Technologies in the Context of Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Systematic Literature Review," Post-Print hal-04454687, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04454687
    DOI: 10.1007/s10479-021-04079-z
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