Managing Perishable Goods Supply Chain Disruptions during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Systematic Approach)

Subject Areas : Business Strategy

Mozhde Nikounam Nezami ¹ , abbas toloie ashlaghi ² , sayed javad Iranban ³

1 - Department of Industrial Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of management,Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (
3 - Department of Management, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2023-02-07 Accepted : 2023-05-24 Published : 2023-07-01

Keywords: COVID-19, Supply chain of perishable goods, systematic approach, Bibliometric and network analysis, Disruption management,

Abstract :

The current article examines the trends and performance of research on the types of effects of the COVID-19 epidemic and the different management strategies of perishable goods supply chain disruptions during 2 years (2020-2022) using bibliometric and network analysis based on the data set from the Scopus database using VOSviewer software. The analysis designates that Kumar A. has been the most influential author in perishable goods supply chain research during the COVID-19 pandemic, and India has contributed the most in this field. The most repeated keywords were resilience, food supply, and perishable food supply chain. Citation analysis indicated that resilience and sustainability are the mainstream of research in articles with high citations. The network analysis also disclosed that resilience and sustainability are the key themes in the clusters. Furthermore, strategies for managing disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic were extracted from the highly-cited articles, which are presented in this article.