Disaster management in Bangladesh: developing an effective emergency supply chain network

• DOI: 10.1007/s10479-018-3081-y
• Publication Date: 2018-10-29T06:13:48Z
• Authors: Mahmud Akhter Sha...; Yogesh K. Dwivedi; Rafeed Mahmud; Angela Wright; Mohammad Mahboob ...; Hatice Kizgin; Nripendra P. Rana
• Keywords: Information Sharing; Identification

This study has addressed and identified the problems in managing existing emergency supply chain of Bangladesh all phases operation terms primary drivers chain. It also attempted to conceptualize suggest an effective In this context, a thorough field investigation several districts was conducted among employees organizations sharing common information with similar protocols implications (interoperable). Information collected from participating involved disaster management through semi-structured questionnaire based survey. The respondents illustrated interconnected reasons which are inhibiting proper forecasting, procurement, storage, identification affected people, distribution. pointed out that mismatching objectives different resulted non-interoperability organizations. These issues related malfunctioning multidimensional organizational conflicts. Reflecting those issues, for is proposed study.