Building resilience for natural disaster risks in multi-tier supply chains: the case of the Türkiye earthquake
Mirasçı, Seray1; Kähkönen, Anni-Kaisa1; Akin Ates, Melek2
1School of Business and Management, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland; 2Sabanci Business School, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
This study investigates how companies can prepare to and recover from natural disaster disruptions. The focus of the study is on risk management and supply chain resilience and the capabilities that companies need in the case of natural disaster disruptions. As our empirical setting, we investigate automotive and textile supply chains in the context of the Türkiye earthquake in 2023. The aim is to explore how companies can prepare for unpredictable supply chain disruptions caused by earthquakes and how they can build better supply chain resilience in the context of multi-tier supply chains. Our results show the importance of firms' dynamic capabilities in earthquake response by underscoring the critical role of sensing, seizing and reconfiguring capabilities in multi-tier supply chain resilience against earthquake risks. The results identify also the barriers and enablers of dynamic capabilities in this context by showing barriers that impede the dynamic capabilites demonstration as well as defining certain enablers that foster the development and utilization of dynamic capabilities.