The study addresses the concept of disaster, which is a permanent fixture of life, alongside the concept of local supply chain, the significance of which has been disregarded for many years. The study has two main objectives, the first being to reveal the role local supply chains have in disasters and the second one being to reveal the importance of local supply chains and what must be done to empower them. The study primarily clarifies how local supply chains are positioned in disasters. By conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis, the study subsequently exposes the strengths and weaknesses of local supply chains, as well as the opportunities and threats to local supply chains, before using the threats, opportunities, weaknesses, and strengths (TOWS) matrix to uncover strategies to strengthen local supply chains. The SWOT analysis of local supply chains identified twenty-two strengths, twelve weaknesses, nine opportunities, and six threats, while the TOWS matrix determined eight strategies to empower local supply chains. As far as is known, this study is the first Turkish study to jointly address disasters and local supply chains, to perform a SWOT analysis on local supply chains, and to form a TOWS matrix for supply chains. The study is important both in terms of the literature and especially for countries such as Türkiye, where disasters frequently occur and local supply chains have a dominant position, as well as for members involved in the local supply chain.


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    Title :

    Local Supply Chains and Disasters: The Importance of Local Supply Chains


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    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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