Previous research have distinguished the risks of supply chain disruptions and the negative effect of supply chain disruption on operational performance in terms of sales, costs and inventory. However, few researchers have studied supply chain risk management and strategies in relation to port conflicts. The 2016 port conflict at a major logistics port in Scandinavia, the Port of Gothenburg, posed an opportunity to study risk management and strategies in the context of major port disruptions, in this case, a labour conflict. The fashion retail industry was affected especially hard due to the short product life cycles and this paper, by means of case study method and analysis, investigates five cases in order to understand how they were affected and what mitigation strategies was used. Results illustrates that during the port conflict, the percentage of increase in logistics cost ranged between 15% and 70%, greatly affected by what mitigation strategy was used by the case company.

Social media has become an important channel for communicating family planning policy in Vietnam. Local governments in this country are using it as the primary channel to spread family planning messages in remote areas. To add to the evidence of previous studies on the role of social media in policy communication, to enrich the research literature, and to make policy recommendations to the Government of Vietnam, this study explores The impact of family planning messages via social networks on family planning behavior. This study was conducted through a cross-sectional survey using an intentional sampling technique (n=200). A multivariable linear regression model was applied to test the hypothesis. Research results show that the factors of attitude to social networks, awareness of family planning messages, and behaviors for family planning have a positive and meaningful relationship with readiness for family planning. Furthermore, the factor awareness of family planning messages has the most significant impact. This result implies that the government and family planning policymakers in Vietnam need to pay attention to social networks and the recipients’ perception of family planning messages.

Digital transformation has been effectively applied in the public sector in Vietnam, especially the ministries. This fact has received significant attention from scientists. Therefore, to supplement the evidence of previous studies and enrich the research literature, this study examines the impact of factors of the digital transformation capacity of public servant of Vietnam Ministry of Home Affairs (Moha) on their task performance. This study was conducted through a cross-sectional survey using an intentional sampling technique (n=200). A multivariate linear regression analysis technique was applied to prove the hypotheses. Research results show that all three factors, digital technology capabilities, digital transformation ethics, and digital transformation leadership, have a positive and meaningful impact on the task performance of Moha public servant. Among them, the most substantial impact belongs to digital technology capabilities. Therefore, this study implies that the Vietnamese government and the Moha need to pay attention to formulating policies to improve the digital transformation capacity of public servant in digital transformation.