Education for sustainable development in humanitarian logistics

Khan, Muhammad; Sarmad, Muhammad; Ullah, Sami; Bae, Jung-Han

doi:10.1108/jhlscm-03-2020-0022

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“…We have no reason to doubt each other's competence and preparation for task (PT2). 3 While working together on specific tasks, I believe I can rely on them not to cause trouble by careless work (PT3). 4 My organization has strong confidence that other stakeholders will provide the best advice regarding our businesses for our sake (PT4).…”

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“…We use distributed ledger technology as it helps to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data (BT2). 3 We use distributed ledger technology to improve transparency in disaster relief supply chain (BT3). 4 We routinely use distributed ledger technology as a data platform that traces the origins, use, and destination of humanitarian supplies (BT4).…”

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“…Disasters badly disrupt the working condition of a territory and the functioning of a locality while leading to losses of humane, economic, material, and environment that are outside the ability of populace's capacity by using its very own assets. From 1998 to 2017 due to natural disasters, approximately 1.3 million casualties occurred, individuals affected around 4.4 billion and economic losses occurred nearly 2,908 billion US$ [2] [3]. Furthermore, in 2018, disasters killed 10,373 and affected around 61.7 million people [4] whereas assets losses were nearly 131.7 billion US$.…”

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There has been incredible interest in Internet-of-Things (IoT) and blockchain technology (BCT) around the world and across sectors. Following great achievement in the other sectors, the implementation of IoT and BCT have gained great interest in Humanitarian Logistics (HL) at many levels despite remaining in an earlier stage. The profit and non-profit organizations both are under increasing worldwide pressure for transparency, with donors and governments calling for enhanced transparency and information exchange in the humanitarian sector. This study, which is based on transactive memory systems (TMS) theory perspectives, proposes a study framework to understand "how can the transparency, public trust, and coordination in HL be improved through the integration of IoT with BCT?". We framed and tested six research hypotheses, using data collected from Humanitarian Organizations (HOs) employees. We have applied a Covariance-based structure equation model (CB-SEM) with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). This study results confirm that our all hypotheses were supported. The research results show that the association between explanatory variables (i.e., IoT and BCT) and the response variables (i.e., public trust and coordination) is mediated by transparency. This study provides substantial and valid contributions to the literature on IoT, BCT, transparency, public trust and coordination. This study proves that transparency plays a crucial role in enhancing public trust, coordination, and ultimately HL performance through the integration of IoT with BCT. The study results could be helpful for all the stakeholders of disaster risk management since they are insistently looking for strategies to support afflicts. Our study is a good candidate solution to raise awareness of fast, fair, and safe HL to reveal research gaps and provide opportunities for future research. The study will provide an enormous understanding of IoT and BCT in HL, which has not been investigated empirically before.

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“…The Disaster Management Act ( 2005) was also defined post the event. Thomas and Kopczak (2005) defined HL as: strongly recommended the need for identifying and developing detailed competency models and define the standards of skill requirements of the emergency relief personnel (McCall & Salama, 1999;Chang, 2005;Mashni, Reed, Sasmitawidjaja, Sundhagul, & Wright, 2005;Alexander, 2003;Forsman, 2002;Heaslip et al, 2019;Khan, Lee, & Bae, 2019;Besiou & Van Wassenhove, 2020), which can, in turn, develop the sustainability of HL (Khan, Sarmad, Ullah, & Bae, 2020).…”

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Personnel needs assessment in times of crisis: a focus on management of disasters

Meduri

2021

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Purpose This study aims to explain the importance of human resources and attempts to identify the competencies required by the personnel involved in disaster management operations. Design/methodology/approach The research uses a qualitative methodology to explore the competencies required by the relief workers using a content analysis approach to analyze the disaster literature and the job advertisements. The data for the content analysis was developed with the help of 23 independent coders, and exploratory inferences were drawn. Findings A detailed review of the literature highlighted the importance of competent personnel in disaster relief organizations. The analysis listed 34 mutually exclusive competencies and their relative importance, which were further divided into four competency clusters. The study also creates a competency dictionary that defines the competencies with the expected behaviors. Practical implications Deploying the right resources in the acute time frame during a disaster event can make a difference, and with lives at stake, such deployment acquires prime importance. In addition to contributing to humanitarian logistics literature, the competency model developed will also help forecast the future requirements and help the organization choose “the right person for the right job.” Originality/value The inferences drawn in the study are based on disaster management areas, unlike earlier research which also considered business logistics research.

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“…Some of most recent studies in the area of HSCs include Heaslip et al (2018), Khan et al (2020); Moshtari et al (2021), Klumpp and Loske (2021); Wagner et al (2021), Pascucci (2021); Kovács and Falagara Sigala (2021); Renteria et al (2021), Yang (2021); Dhamija et al (2021), Caballero-Anthony et al (2021); and Hezam and Nayeem (2021). Heaslip et al (2018) emphasized on the importance of incorporating the spirit of servitization in humanitarian logistics and emergency relief chains to their competitive advantage.…”

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Exploring and establishing the barriers to sustainable humanitarian supply chains using fuzzy interpretive structural modeling and fuzzy MICMAC analysis

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Asim

Ahmed

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Purpose The continual onset of natural and manmade disasters propels the humanitarian supply chain (HSC) efforts (by organizations, groups and individuals) to always be on a stand-by mode with more and more sustainable solutions. Despite all the sincere and coordinated efforts from all the humanitarian agents and bodies, the likely sustainable outputs are hampered by certain barriers (impediments) which exist at different levels of the HSCs. A better understanding of such barriers and their mutual relationship is deemed helpful in improving the outcomes of humanitarian efforts. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to explore, refine, establish and classify these barriers which thwart the sustainable efforts of the HSCs individually as well as collectively. Design/methodology/approach An extensive literature review is conducted to identify these barriers which were followed by soliciting the experts’ inputs to update, refine and retain the contextually relevant ones. The opinions about the nine identified and refined barriers are taken from eight experts based in the Northern India who are having at least five years of experience in humanitarian operations. Fuzzy interpretive structural modeling (FISM) is used to examine and establish a hierarchical relationship among these barriers, whereas fuzzy Matrice d’impacts croisés multiplication appliquée á un classment analysis is carried out to further classify these barriers into dependent, autonomous, linkage and dependent barriers. Findings The analysis led to the formation of a FISM model where the operational challenges affecting the performance occupy the topmost position in the hierarchy. The results reveal that inconsistent motives, coordination and communication and operational challenges affecting the performance are the dependent, poor strategic planning, capacity-related challenges and poor performance measurement system are the autonomous, and financial challenges, locational challenges and lack of proper awareness are the independent barriers. Research limitations/implications The focus of the researchers was to study and examine these barriers to sustainable HSCs with special reference to the epidemics and pandemics (especially COVID-19), and it sheds light particularly arising during and post disaster phases. Practical implications The structural model contributed by this study is expected to be meaningful for practitioners besides enriching the body of literature. In the context of pandemics, it distinguishes itself from the other available frameworks. Social implications As this research has been carried out in the context of the novel COVID-19, the framework is expected to assist policymakers in comprehending the issues impeding the sustainability of noble humanitarian efforts. Thus, ultimately it is expected to contribute to the ultimate cause of society at large. Originality/value This research endeavor distinguishes itself from the other accessible published resources in terms of the specific context, the methodological approach and the nature of respondents. This paper concludes with the practical implications and directions for future research.

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Education for sustainable development in humanitarian logistics

Cited by 20 publications

References 80 publications

Integration of Internet-of-Things With Blockchain Technology to Enhance Humanitarian Logistics Performance

Integration of Internet-of-Things With Blockchain Technology to Enhance Humanitarian Logistics Performance

Personnel needs assessment in times of crisis: a focus on management of disasters

Exploring and establishing the barriers to sustainable humanitarian supply chains using fuzzy interpretive structural modeling and fuzzy MICMAC analysis

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