Title: Supply and inventory management resilience: how Ugandan businesses aim to overcome black swans

Authors: Bernhard Maier; Vito Bobek; Tatjana Horvat

Addresses: University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum Graz, Eggenberger Allee 11, 8020 Graz, Austria ' University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum Graz, Eggenberger Allee 11, 8020 Graz, Austria ' University of Primorska, Faculty of Management, Cankarjeva 5, p.p. 761. SI-6101 Koper, Slovenia

Abstract: Financial crises are impacting companies and their supply chains in many ways. This paper aims to build upon knowledge about supply chain and inventory management threats and extend the knowledge to which extent they are connected to financial crises. While there are existing works exploring strategies of companies trying to build resilience against supply chain threats in general, literature about their connection to financial crises is still scarce - even more so in an emerging market context. Therefore, the present work is exploring the strategies of Ugandan businesses, operating in an emerging market context, on building resilience against threats arising in times of financial crisis. By building on other authors' works, a list of 18 sub-threats of financial crises has been identified within this research paper. Furthermore, the empirical research brought forward a list of 26 strategies applied by Ugandan businesses to build resilience against those sub-threats.

Keywords: supply chain resilience; inventory management; financial crises; Uganda.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDIPE.2021.118853

International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy, 2021 Vol.7 No.2, pp.163 - 176

Received: 09 Sep 2021
Accepted: 16 Sep 2021
Published online: 08 Nov 2021 *

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