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Review of Strategic Agility: A Holistic Framework for Fresh Produce Supply Chain Disruptions

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  • David Eshun Yawson

    (GIMPA Business School, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Achimota, Accra P.O. Box AH 50, Ghana)

  • Fred A. Yamoah

    (Department of Management, Birkbeck-University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK)

Abstract

The influence of the rapidly changing business environment due to the COVID-19 global pandemic presents an important organizational challenge to fresh produce export supply chains in developing countries such as Ghana. Such an inimical supply chain problem highlights the relevance of supply chain agility as a potent methodological framework to measure, monitor and evaluate these challenges in stable as well as turbulent times. This review paper focuses on the applicability of a framework for Supply Chain Agility as a methodological framework in stable (pre-COVID-19) versus turbulent (COVID-19) business environments. We argue and propose that Supply Chain Agility Framework is a holistic framework which is efficacious in both stable and unstable supply chain environments. This is amply supported by the central plank of our proposition that the Supply Chain Agility Framework offers an adaptable tool that can serve as a panacea to fresh produce supply chain challenges not only in a stable (pre-COVID-19) business environment but also effective and applicable in a turbulent business environment, such as experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The implications of this proposition for the fresh produce export supply chain industry and relevant stakeholders are duly presented.

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  • David Eshun Yawson & Fred A. Yamoah, 2022. "Review of Strategic Agility: A Holistic Framework for Fresh Produce Supply Chain Disruptions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-15, November.
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