Rainer Lasch

TL;DR: The theoretical analysis reveals a promotion of supply chain resilience strategies, especially if smart contracts are used for risk-related collaboration, and an increase in resilience if the underlying collaboration is based on time-efficient processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and empirically support a theoretically sound, operational, and easy-to-implement supplier risk management framework that focuses on supplier development using a benchmarking approach.

TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate analysis tool for managing a pool of engaged or future suppliers is presented, where a constructed ideal supplier serves as a reference to compare all suppliers by means of multivariate analytical methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how companies apply environmental and social criteria in supplier evaluation and found that no child labour, working hours, no forced labour, no discrimination, employment compensation, freedom of association, and health and safety practices are commonly used as social criteria whereas end-of-pipe control (wastewater treatment systems) and environmentally friendly materials are used as environmental criteria.

TL;DR: Findings include unexplored potential regarding distributed production networks and collaboration, expected evolutionary steps of IoT, disintermediation leading to new business models like tokenisation, and short-term rather than long-term relationships.