Supply Chain Risk Management

Disruptions are a fact of life not only since the Supply Chain literature gained awareness of it. So some institutions in fact specialized on handling disruptions as their core competency.
The article "Responding to Disruptions in the Supply Network - from Dormant to Action" tries to transfer the knowledge and best practices present at the military and humanitarian organizations to Supply Chain Management.

Methodology
The authors (Kovács and Tatham) are using case research and a resource based view to find common patterns in military and humanitarian practices to efficiently and effectively act on disruptions.

In his 2009 paper Brian Tomlin analyzes strategies to mitigate disruption risks in a three echelon supply chain.

Setting
Focus in his research is a single company, with its suppliers and customers. The objective is to maximize expected utility, while demand and supply are uncertain. There are two products available which can be used as substitutes. The time horizon for the decision maker is one season where the products can be sold.

Three different sourcing structures are considered.

What do professionals in the domain of supply chain management think about disruptions? How do they prepare for them, how do they act when a disruption occurs?

Blackhurst et al. (2005) answer these questions in their work about "An empirically derived agenda of critical research issues for managing supply-chain disruptions".