Title: Measuring supply chain agility during the COVID-19 pandemic: empirical evidence from the firms in UAE

Authors: Michael Wang; Ferry Jie; Guilherme F. Frederico

Addresses: Department of Management, Kingston Business School, Kingston University London, Kingston Hill Campus, Kingston upon Thames, London, KT2 7LB, UK ' School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Campus, 6027, Australia ' School of Management, Federal University of Paraná – UFPR – Curitiba, Av. Lothário Meissner, 632, 2º. Andar, Jd. Botânico, CEP: 80210-170, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Abstract: The paper presented a validated measurement scale of supply chain agility post COVID-19. The pandemic has been recognised as a type of supply chain risks and uncertainties. In the supply chain management literature, supply chain agility was considered as a critical supply chain capability to address these supply chain risks and uncertainties. It is significant to revisit the critical capabilities of supply chains in the post COVID-19 business environment. Factor analysis was employed to validate the measurement model. Total 203 valid responses from the UAE's organisations were used for data analysis. The results show the scale has multiple items to measure supply chain agility, which may be employed as a strategic tool to help companies to make their supply chain more resilient to deal with the risks, uncertainties and challenges post COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: supply chain agility; COVID-19; measurement model; supply chain management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2024.135371

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management, 2024 Vol.17 No.1, pp.1 - 14

Received: 09 May 2022
Accepted: 03 Jan 2023
Published online: 07 Dec 2023 *

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