Supply Chain risk assessment: a content analysis-based literature review

In recent years, along with globalisation trend, risk management has
been an integral part in supply chain management. In this vein, supply chain
risk assessment has become an active and important research subject. There is
considerable research and debate on the approach and method of assessing risk
in order to obtain a sound base for decision making in supply chain and supply
chain risk management. This paper aims to synthesise overall aspects of supply
chain risk assessment in the literature. To this end, we have investigated
140 peer-reviewed articles in high quality journals by using a content analysis
method and a systematic approach. The heterogeneous definitions, focuses,
procedures, methods, and indicators of supply chain risk assessment referred to
in previous research are comprehensively analysed and presented in
classification frameworks in order to gain insights into this field, explore
research gaps, and provide an outlook for future research.