Unethical Supply Chains Delaying Recovery: Analyzing Pre and Mid COVID-19 Conditions
Journal
Business recovery in emerging markets : global perspectives from various sectors
Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth
ISSN
2662-3641
2662-365X
Date Issued
2022
Type
text::book::book part
Abstract
Entire industries have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. As a result, global supply chains, along with their collaborators, have been severely affected. The slow pace of recovery has raised many questions as it is not only a matter of vaccination and employment. Other issues that preceded the pandemic are pushing recovery further; inequality is at the center of these issues. If unequal conditions and practices do not change, is recovery even possible? Another issue that arises is the illustrious need to get back to normal, which leads to the questions: should we be striving for normal? Is it the ideal state? The study contributes to the understanding of recovery’s slow pace and proposes a conceptual model to foster socially responsible supply chain governance by means of individual and organizational resilience to close the inequality gap and recover. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.