From exploitation and exploration to exaptation? A logistics service provider's (LSP) perspective on building supply chain resilience capabilities during disruptions

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dc.contributor.authorHerold, David M.
dc.contributor.authorPrataviera, Lorenzo Bruno
dc.contributor.authorNowicka, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T13:36:32Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T13:36:32Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-10
dc.description.abstractPurpose: During the supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19, logistics service providers (LSPs) have invested heavily in innovations to enhance their supply chain resilience capabilities. However, only little attention has been given so far to the nature of these innovative capabilities, in particular to what extent LSPs were able to repurpose capabilities to build supply chain resilience. In response, using the concept of exaptation, this study identifies to what extent LSPs have discovered and utilized latent functions to build supply chain resilience capabilities during a disruptive event of high impact and low probability. Design/methodology/approach: This conceptual paper uses a theory building approach to advance the literature on supply chain resilience by delineating the relationship between exaptation and supply chain resilience capabilities in the context of COVID-19. To do so, we propose two frameworks: (1) to clarify the role of exaptation for supply chain resilience capabilities and (2) to depict four different exaptation dimensions for the supply chain resilience capabilities of LSPs. Findings: We illustrate how LSPs have repurposed original functions into new products or services to build their supply chain resilience capabilities and combine the two critical concepts of exploitation and exploration capabilities to identify four exaptation dimensions in the context of LSPs, namely impeded exaptation, configurative exaptation, transformative exaptation and ambidextrous exaptation. Originality/value: As one of the first studies linking exaptation and supply chain resilience, the framework and subsequent categorization advance the understanding of how LSPs can build exapt-driven supply chain resilience capabilities and synthesize the current literature to offer conceptual clarity regarding the varied implications and outcomes linked to the repurposing of capabilities.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationHerold DM, Prataviera LB, Nowicka K. (2024) From exploitation and exploration to exaptation? A logistics service provider's (LSP) perspective on building supply chain resilience capabilities during disruptions. The International Journal of Logistics Management. Available online 10 April 2024en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0957-4093
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-02-2023-0077
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/21279
dc.language.isoen_UKen_UK
dc.publisherEmeralden_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectExaptationen_UK
dc.subjectResilienceen_UK
dc.subjectSupply chainen_UK
dc.subjectCapabilitiesen_UK
dc.subjectLogisticsen_UK
dc.titleFrom exploitation and exploration to exaptation? A logistics service provider's (LSP) perspective on building supply chain resilience capabilities during disruptionsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-03-18

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