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Critical factors for achieving supply chain agility: towards a comprehensive taxonomy

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  • Mohamad Sadegh Sangari
  • Jafar Razmi
  • Angappa Gunasekaran

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Supply chain agility is now widely recognised as a key determinant of competitiveness and survival in today's dynamic and turbulent business environment. However, the problem of achieving agility in supply chain is still largely unresolved. This paper aims to contribute towards the development of a comprehensive taxonomy of the factors that are critical to have a truly agile supply chain. A substantial body of research literature is analysed using a systematic, inductive approach based on grounded theory (GT) to identify the critical factors. Overall, 12 categories of critical factors for achieving supply chain agility are developed and validated through a quantitative survey of supply chain experts from the automotive industry. A ranking of the factors is also established based on their relative criticality. From the findings, an integrative framework is proposed as a reference for the development of supply chain agility.

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  • Mohamad Sadegh Sangari & Jafar Razmi & Angappa Gunasekaran, 2016. "Critical factors for achieving supply chain agility: towards a comprehensive taxonomy," International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 23(3), pages 290-310.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:23:y:2016:i:3:p:290-310
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    1. Chih-Hung Hsu & Ru-Yue Yu & An-Yuan Chang & Wan-Ling Liu & An-Ching Sun, 2022. "Applying Integrated QFD-MCDM Approach to Strengthen Supply Chain Agility for Mitigating Sustainable Risks," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-41, February.

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