Identification and prioritization of critical success factors in faith-based and non-faith-based organizations’ humanitarian supply chain

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ID23213688
AuthorsMuhammad Azmat (0000-0002-5857-7246, Vienna University of Economics and Business, corresponding author), Muhammad Atif (0000-0002-5723-820X, BOKU University), Sebastian Kummer (0000-0002-4840-5256, Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Year2019
Volume4
Issue1
Publication date2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International Humanitarian Action (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2364-3412 • E-ISSN: 2364-3404
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s41018-019-0067-6
OpenAlexW2996429692
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited53

In the last few decades, an exponential increase in the number of disasters, and their complexity has been reported, which ultimately put much pressure on relief organizations. These organizations cannot usually respond to the disaster on their own, and therefore, all actors involved in relief efforts should have end-to-end synchronization in order to provide relief effectively and efficiently. Consequently, to smoothen the flow of relief operation, a shared understanding of critical success factors in humanitarian supply chain serves as a pre-requisite for successful relief operation. Therefore, any member of the humanitarian supply chain might disrupt this synchronization by neglecting one or several of these critical success factors. However, in this study, we try to investigate how faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations treat these critical success factors. Moreover, we also try to identify any differences between Islamic and Christian relief organizations in identifying and prioritizing these factors. To achieve the objective of this study, we used a two-stage approach; in the first stage, we collected the critical success factors from existing humanitarian literature. Whereas, in the second stage, using an online questionnaire, we collected data on the importance of selected factors from humanitarian relief organizations from around the world in collaboration with World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO). Later, responses were analyzed to answer the research questions using non-parametric Binomial and Wilcoxon Rank-Sum tests. Test results indicate that for RQ1, two but all factors are significant for successful relief operation. For RQ2, we found significant differences for some CSF among faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations. Similarly for RQ3, we found significant differences for some CSF among Islamic and Christian relief organizations.

Business · Critical success factor · Emergency management · Faith · Order (exchange) · Political science · Prioritization · Process management · Supply chain · Wilcoxon signed-rank test · Disaster Management and Resilience · Facility Location and Emergency Management · Finance · Law · Marketing · Religion, Society, and Development

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