Supply chain resilience research: Reviews, trends and opportunities

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights to academics and researchers on the research developments, gaps and opportunities for future research on the topic of supply chain resilience. A systematic review of the literature, published over a period of 15 years (2003 –2017), is conducted by employing two methods: first, keywords are used to collect relevant articles; second, the references of the articles collected in the first step are analysed to collect more data. As a result, 78 articles published in peer-reviewed journals are collected generated and analysed. The findings are summarised in the several key areas including definitions, methodological and theoretical perspectives, barriers and enablers to building resilience, and current research on small and medium sized enterprises.