Bridging humanitarian operations management and organisational theory

Gunasekaran, Angappa; Dubey, Rameshwar; Wamba, Samuel Fosso; Παπαδόπουλος, Θάνος; Hazen, Benjamin T.; Ngai, Eric W.T.

doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1551958

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“…When the electronic tag passes through the area, it is excited to transmit the information stored in the electronic tag by inducing the energy formed by the current. Subsequently transferred to readers, information is practicable to be stored in the database [ 6 ].…”

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A Novel Structure of Blockchain Applied in Vaccine Quality Control: Double-Chain Structured Blockchain System for Vaccine Anticounterfeiting and Traceability

Qiu

Zhu

2021

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Background. Vaccine, as an irreplaceable means in herd immunization, is widely applied in prevention for communicable diseases. However, adverse impacts were frequently incurred by fake or expired vaccines in China. Given the necessity of vaccine anticounterfeiting, blockchain-based transaction platform could be practiced as a solution in addressing the issue; however, most of the available experiments focused on single-chain structured design with inventible limitations. Accordingly, exploration for the effectiveness and feasibility of mixed-chains structured platform for vaccine anticounterfeiting and tracing is essentially required. Methods. Both public chain and private chain were inserted in anticounterfeiting and tracing platform designing process, which were subsequently simulated in Ethereum environment. Results. By recording different information in public chain and private chain, partial information privacy protection requirements are realized. The transfer identification module realized the function of vaccine quality supervision and solves the problem of EPC label replication. Discussion. Compared with the traditional single-structured design, completeness information could be visited by all stakeholders in double-chain structure, including vaccine suppliers, National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), vaccine purchasers, and the vaccinated. Conclusion. Double-chain structured system for vaccine anticounterfeiting and tracing is more effective.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A Novel Structure of Blockchain Applied in Vaccine Quality Control: Double-Chain Structured Blockchain System for Vaccine Anticounterfeiting and Traceability

Qiu

Zhu

2021

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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“…Existing studies on humanitarian supply chain agility mainly focuses on ascertaining the organizational impact of humanitarian supply chain agility in terms of humanitarian operations performance. Few studies utilize a theory-driven approach to understand the role of key factors in building humanitarian supply chain agility (Gunasekaran et al 2018 ). We identify this as a clear research gap in humanitarian supply chain literature.…”

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Agility in humanitarian supply chain: an organizational information processing perspective and relational view

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Humanitarian organizations are increasingly facing challenges in terms of improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of their disaster relief efforts. These challenges often arise due to a lack of trust, poor collaboration and an inability to respond to disaster affected areas in a timely manner. Our study attempts to understand how these challenges are overcome by seeking answers to questions related to the topics of swift-trust, collaboration and agility in humanitarian supply chains. For instance, in our study we have attempted to examine how information sharing and supply chain visibility in humanitarian supply chains improve the swift-trust among the humanitarian actors engaged in disaster relief operations. Further, we attempt to understand how-swift trust, commitment and collaboration among the humanitarian actors improve the agility in humanitarian supply chains. In our study we provide both theoretical and data-driven answers to our stated research gaps. Our theoretical model is firmly grounded in organizational information process theory and relational view. We tested our research hypotheses using variance based structural equation modelling with survey data collected using a web based pre-tested instrument from 147 NGOs respondents drawn from the National Disaster Management Authority database. Our results help to advance the theoretical debates surrounding “swift-trust”, “collaboration” and “agility” in humanitarian settings. We further provide direction to managers engaged in disaster relief operations. The humanitarian actors engaged in disaster relief often fail to understand how to build swift-trust. Moreover, how swift-trust further affects commitment and collaboration which in turn further affect agility in humanitarian supply chains. Thus humanitarian organizations must understand how information sharing and supply chain visibility is key to swift-trust among humanitarian actors and agility in humanitarian supply chains. Finally, we outline the limitations of our study and offer some future research directions for investigation.

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“…Moreover, in the era of large data, the location intelligence (i.e., big data analytics capability powered by artificial intelligence) may reveal better opportunities. Despite the increasing applications of OR/MS techniques, it is often observed that most of the times the disaster relief team fail to understand the survivors' needs and even when the disaster relief team reaches the affected areas in time, the relief to the survivor is still far from reality (Altay, 2008;Chakravarty, 2014;Gunasekaran et al 2018). Hence, in such cases statistics and probabilistic approach may further help address uncertainties associated with such large events in disaster locations and demands; and in general various OR/MS techniques can be applied to the different stages of disaster relief operations involving multiple diverse actors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%