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ArticleAnnals of operations research2021

How is COVID-19 altering the manufacturing landscape? A literature review of imminent challenges and management interventions.

Kawaljeet Kapoor, Ali Ziaee Bigdeli, Yogesh K Dwivedi, Ramakrishnan Raman

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Article in Annals of operations research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kawaljeet KapoorAston University, Birmingham, UK.
Ali Ziaee BigdeliAston University, Birmingham, UK.
Yogesh K DwivediEmerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC), School of Management, Swansea University, Room #323, Bay Campus, Fabian Bay, Swansea, SA1 8EN Wales, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5547-9990
Ramakrishnan RamanSymbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune & Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India.
Aston University · GBSwansea Bay University Health Board · GBSymbiosis International University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major upheavals for manufacturing, and has severe implications for production networks, and the demand and supply chains underpinning manufacturing operations. This paper is the first of its kind to pull together research on both-the pandemic-related challenges and the management interventions in a manufacturing context. This systematic literature review reveals the frailty of supply chains and production networks in withstanding the pressures of lockdowns and other safety protocols, including product and workforce shortages. These, altogether, have led to closed facilities, reduced capacities, increased costs, and severe economic uncertainty for manufacturing businesses. In managing these challenges and stabilising their operations, manufacturers are urgently intervening by-investing in digital technologies, undertaking resource redistribution and repurposing, regionalizing and localizing, servitizing, and targeting policies that can help them survive in this altered economy. Based on holistic analysis of these challenges and interventions, this review proposes an extensive research agenda for future studies to pursue.

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COVID-19 challengesDigital technologiesManufacturingPandemicRepurposing

Identifiers

PMID34803204
PMCPMC8596861
OpenAlexW3214151670

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