Analysis of supply chain risk management researches

Abstract

Despite the large number of contributions (some 250 articles) published on Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), none of them have developed what can be called research profiling on the theme. This paper aims to analyze the profile of works published on SCRM, that is, to map the field of research on the theme, covering articles published from 2004 to 2015. The authors adopted the research profiling method, which expands the scope of bibliometry by applying text mining. The VantagePoint® software was used to analyze, classify, and organize the data of this study. The results provide several insights into research on SCRM, namely: (i) the key expression “supply chain risk management” only became representative for the theme after 2012; (ii) the most cited authors are not the same as those who have published the most; and (iii) only three periodicals together account for one-third of all the citations in publications on SCRM.

Keywords:
Supply Chain Risk Management; SCRM; Research profiling; Systematic literature review