The growing occurrence of supply chain risks challenges the effectiveness of tactical supply chain planning (TSCP) outcomes. Consequently, an adjustment of TSCP is required, for instance, through integrating TSCP processes with the four supply chain risk management (SCRM) activities of identifying, assessing, treating, and monitoring risks. This paper investigates how TSCP can be integrated with these activities to deal with risks. The literature on the field is still incipient, and research findings are dispersed among different studies. Therefore, a scoping review is conducted, synthesizing the TSCP literature according to supply chain processes and risks, SCRM activities, and contextual factors. The paper offers eight main research streams for future studies. A research agenda is posed with a future research proposal for each research stream.

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This study proposes an extended UTAUT (unified theory of acceptance and use of technology) model that incorporates key factors such as trust in the platform, perceived ease of use of application, environmental concern, government support, and technical barrier in order to gain a deeper insight into the adoption intentions of users. This study was carried out in order to gain a deeper insight into the adoption intentions of users. Validation of the research’s conceptual framework relied on feedback from a representative sample of 297 Chinese consumers. It was found that the intention to use had a substantial positive link with performance expectations, trust in the platform, perceived ease of use of the program, perceived support from the government, and environmental concerns. In addition, the study offers suggestions for management and policymakers in the interest of boosting adoption intentions for bicycle sharing.

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Startups have to deal with scarce resources to be acquired from elsewhere and tight requirements to advance their innovative ideas. This study explores production competence as a reflection of a missing link from conception to efficient industrialization and the scale-up in hardware startups. The study was conducted as a qualitative case study consisting of an investigation of fourteen startups. Hardware startups working on discrete product technologies lack the technical competence, strategy, facilities, and functions to adequately address production issues. This implies that their challenges in managing and executing industrialization and scale-up activities impact viability and competitiveness of the ventures. Skinners’ missing link analogy has been used to understand the phenomenon faced by hardware startups.

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In this VUCA environment, a stable food supply, essential for human survival, is becoming increasingly important. The COVID-19 pandemic created severe shortages of consumer goods and processed foods in several parts of the world, and Japan was no exception. This study outlines the impact of the pandemic on Japan’s processed food supply chain (SC) and identifies the resilience capabilities of the SC using secondary and primary data collected through interviews with 11 companies in the chain. It was found that production cycles were stressed, the limited resources were engaged in production of Olympic related orders and coordinating production with subcontractors was extremely difficult due to negligible resource leveraging opportunities. One of the most important findings of this study is that SC resilience capabilities vary according to the stage of the disruption. In the case of Japan’s processed food chain, capabilities of agility and centralization were found to be effective in the stage of severe disruption.

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