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Impacts and Supply Chain Resilience Strategies to Cope with COVID-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review

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Coronavirus COVID-19 is an extraordinary event that can be categorized as a subcategory of Supply Chain (SC) disruptions. This pandemic has impacted supply chains differently, depending on the produced item, the industry, and the role of firms along the supply chains.

Several studies, that emerged during the last 2 years, have analyzed the impact of COVID-19 on supply chains and firms, and the strategies adopted to cope with the pandemic. In addition to several resilience strategies, papers also highlighted the key role of digitalization to support firms in building more effective resilience strategies. The literature on the topic is however still fragmented. To overcome this fragmentation, our chapter offers a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), which investigates, in particular, the impacts of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Management (SCM) areas and actors, the SC resilience strategies which can enable firms to cope with the pandemic, and the role of digitalization.

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This work was developed within the “SCREAM” project, supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) in the Special Supplementary Fund Program for research (“Fondo Integrativo Speciale per la Ricerca (FISR)”).

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  2. Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

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Pellegrino, R., Gaudenzi, B. (2023). Impacts and Supply Chain Resilience Strategies to Cope with COVID-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review. In: Khan, O., Huth, M., Zsidisin, G.A., Henke, M. (eds) Supply Chain Resilience. Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16489-7_1

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