Supply Chain Resilience: resilience of supply chain networks in the construction industry

Supply chains can be disrupted in a number of ways.Among them are: natural disasters that include hurricanes and earthquakes;accidents human induced disasters such as terrorist attacks and sabotage. It is critical to Supply chain networks that they have resilience. This is a challenging and demanding area of research as it involves high level of complexity due to the nature of supply chain networks. As past research has been focusing on supply chain management, risk management, supply chain vulnerability, performance and several other aspects of the supply chain. This research's primary focus is on supply chain resilience. The research addresses management practices, information sharing and IT which firms need to apply to facilitate uninterrupted state of the supply chain upstream and downstream.