Paper Info
Title
Swift trust and commitment: The missing links for humanitarian supply chain coordination?
Abstract
Coordination among actors in a humanitarian relief supply chain decides whether a relief operation can be or successful or not. In humanitarian supply chains, due to the urgency and importance of the situation combined with scarce resources, actors have to coordinate and trust each other in order to achieve joint goals. This paper investigated empirically the role of swift trust as mediating variable for achieving supply chain coordination. Based on commitment-trust theory we explore enablers of swift-trust and how swift trust translates into coordination through commitment. Based on a path analytic model we test data from the National Disaster Management Authority of India. Our study is the first testing commitment-trust theory in the humanitarian context, highlighting the importance of swift trust and commitment for much thought after coordination. Furthermore, the study shows that information sharing and behavioral uncertainty reduction act as enablers for swift trust. The study findings offer practical guidance and suggest that swift trust is a missing link for the success of humanitarian supply chains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10479-017-2676-z
Annals of Operations Research
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Humanitarian supply chains, Swift trust, Coordination, Trust-committment theory, Covariance-based SEM
Journal
283
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-2
1572-9338
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rameshwar Dubey1889.74
Nezih Altay227114.90
Constantin Blome3102.17