Title: Impact of supply chain agility on its risk management, performance and firm performance considering contextual trait

Authors: Nilesh Wankhade; Goutam Kumar Kundu

Addresses: VIT – Business School, VIT University, Vellore-632014, India ' Alliance School of Business, Alliance University, Bangalore-562106, India

Abstract: Supply chain (SC) agility is a dynamic capability which helps businesses to achieve competitive advantage by providing differentiation strategy. The purpose of this research is to explore the impact of SC agility on constructs like SC risk management, SC performance and firm's performance considering domain in which they operate. We proposed the framework and developed six hypotheses. An empirical study was conducted, and 462 responses were collected from SC practitioners to test the model using structural equation modelling with multigroup analysis. Analysis proves that SC agility has a positive impact on SC risk management and SC performance. This research suggests the partial mediation by SC risk management between SC agility and SC performance. Relations between SC performance and the firm's performance do not show significant variation when domain is considered. This study bridges the gap and resolves the ambiguity raised in literature while providing the relationship among these constructs.

Keywords: supply chain agility; SCA; supply chain performance; firm's performance; risk management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2026.154144

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2026 Vol.54 No.2, pp.236 - 258

Received: 31 Oct 2023
Accepted: 01 Dec 2023
Published online: 15 Jun 2026 *

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