Bibliometric Analysis of Supply Chain Contracts Under Disruption Risk.

Abstract

Supply chain management is continuously evolving from local and regional activities to the current global supply network. Owing to the ever-growing supply chain, many risks and uncertainties exist in the environment. Among the strategies adopted to manage risks and uncertainties of channel members, supply chain contract is widely studied by many researchers for channel optimization and coordination. Given the growing research volume in this area, it is highly desirable to study the bibliometric structure and discover the intellectual core, i.e., themes and sub-themes, in this rich body of the literature. In this paper, we study different types of contract adoption under disruption risk from data obtained from SCOPUS database. Citation, co-citation, and co-occurrence analyses are carried out to identify and validate the themes in this research area. The main study areas can be summarized into five broad categories as risk assessment and management, planning and controlling production cost under disruption, optimization of the supply chain under disruption, contract management and coordination under disruption, and profit maximization under information asymmetric.