Decision-making in supply risk and supply disruption management

Supply chains are exposed to manifold risks that pose considerable challenges to managers. In case a risk materializes, the potential negative consequences are devastating. Recent developments foster the vulnerability of firms to suffer from supply chain risks and add considerable relevance to the threat of being severely harmed by them. Relatively little is known about the behavior of individuals within supply risk and supply disruption management. Given the circumstance that a large fraction of the decisions concerning crisis situations is typically made by single decision makers with centralized authority it is surprising that behavioral aspects have been neglected in research on supply risk and disruptions, so far. Thus, the aim of this dissertation research is to shed light on specific research questions that cover behavioral aspects of managing supply risks and disruptions to improve our understanding of how to effectively address them.