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In recent years, the adopting of some supply chain practice such as outsourcing and lean production helps in smoothing the operations, but it also results in little buffer inventory in a supply chain which may lead to increased vulnerability of the chains.1 At the same time, the business environment has evolved to be an increasingly complex scenario characterized by high uncertainty and rapid and frequent changes. For example, supply chains are subject to many potential external sources of disruption, e.g., natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and industrial actions, etc. The disruption in one firm can rapidly result in a significant adversary impact on the entire chain. Due to such changes, firm managers not only concern profit maximization but also pay much attention to risk containment or loss minimization for their firms. Motivated by the requirements of real world practice, supply chain risk management attracts more and more attention from academia (Chen et al. 2007; Shi 2004; Tang 2006a;Wu and Wang 2004a,b;Wu et al. 2006a; Zhou et al. 2006).
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Li, J., Chen, J., Wang, S. (2011). Introduction. In: Risk Management of Supply and Cash Flows in Supply Chains. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 165. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0511-5_1
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