Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent and/or control the outbreak of
infectious diseases. This medical intervention also brings about many logistical questions. In …

Purpose Contemporary supply chain relationships inherently rely on delegation of work
between organizations and, thus, are subject to agency problems for which a wide range of …

Vaccination offers health, economic, and social benefits. However, three major issues—
vaccine quality, demand forecasting, and trust among stakeholders—persist in the vaccine …

We develop a theory that shows signaling a firm's fundamental quality (eg, its operational
capabilities) to lenders through inventory transactions to be more efficient—it leads to less …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's lives worldwide. Among various strategies
being applied to addressing such a global crisis, public vaccination has been arguably the …

Vaccines are a special kind of drug, the quality of which is highly sensitive to temperature
and directly related to public health. Recently, numerous vaccine-related adverse events …

Purpose Despite rapid success in bringing SARS-CoV-2 vaccines to distribution by multiple
pharmaceutical corporations, supply chain failures in production and distribution can plague …

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

Influenza vaccine supply chains are subject to yield and demand uncertainty, which leads to
the mismatch between supply and demand. This paper studies the production and …

Pharmaceutical companies, upstream suppliers, associated logistics providers, health
workers, regulatory agencies, public health experts and ultimately the medical practitioners …