Developing operational resilience to navigate transportation disruptions : the role and boundaries of efficiency priority

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dc.contributor.author Ataburo, Henry
dc.contributor.author Ampong, Getrude Effah
dc.contributor.author Essuman, Dominic
dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-03T07:05:43Z
dc.date.available 2024-10-03T07:05:43Z
dc.date.issued 2024-09
dc.description DATA AVAILABILITY : The study’s data are available from the corresponding author upon request. en_US
dc.description.abstract Operational resilience is crucial for navigating the increasing transportation disruption challenges, but building this capability can be expensive and sometimes result in inefficiencies. Meanwhile, firms must prioritize efficiency to remain competitive and profitable. However, it is unclear how and when firms’ pursuit of efficiency priority hinders or helps their resilience to specific disruptions. This research uses the theory of constraints to propose that while efficiency priority limits opportunities for improving operational resilience, buffering and bridging strategies lessen this constraint by enabling firms to align efficiency priority with operational resilience objectives. The study hypothesizes that these strategies positively moderate the negative effect of efficiency priority on operational resilience to transportation disruptions. These arguments are tested on primary data from a sample of 199 firms in Ghana using moderated regression analysis and the Johnson-Neyman technique. The results reveal that efficiency priority is negatively related to the disruption absorption dimension of operational resilience but unrelated to its recoverability dimension. Additionally, the study finds that under low conditions of buffering and bridging strategies, efficiency priority has stronger negative associations with both dimensions of operational resilience. In contrast, these relationships are positive under the high conditions of either strategy. These findings contribute to resolving existing debates on the efficiency-resilience link and have important implications for supply chain and business executives, as discussed in this article. en_US
dc.description.department Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) en_US
dc.description.librarian hj2024 en_US
dc.description.sdg None en_US
dc.description.sponsorship The Africa Centre of Excellence Project, the Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) Regional Transport Research and Education Centre, Kumasi (TRECK), funded by the World Bank. en_US
dc.description.uri https://link.springer.com/journal/10479 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Ataburo, H., Ampong, G.E. & Essuman, D. Developing operational resilience to navigate transportation disruptions: the role and boundaries of efficiency priority. Annals of Operations Research 340, 723–755 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-024-06092-4. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0254-5330 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1572-9338 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1007/s10479-024-06092-4
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/98466
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.rights © The Author(s) 2024. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. en_US
dc.subject Developing country en_US
dc.subject Transportation en_US
dc.subject Theory of constraints en_US
dc.subject Competitive priorities en_US
dc.subject Resilience capabilities en_US
dc.subject Supply chain disruption en_US
dc.title Developing operational resilience to navigate transportation disruptions : the role and boundaries of efficiency priority en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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