ASRM Seminar -- Kedong Chen -- Organizational Learning and Risk Mitigation: A Supply Network Perspective
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Organizational Learning and Risk Mitigation: A Supply Network PerspectiveAbstract:
When suppliers experience disruptions, they learn how to better prevent and recover from future incidents. As these local improvements accumulate, the supply network can also become more resilient. Drawing on organizational learning, we introduce supply network resilience learning, defined as improvements in network resilience driven by suppliers learning from their own disruptions. We integrate agent-based simulation, experimental design, data analytics, and analytical modeling to study how supplier learning shapes network-level learning. We examine two mechanisms — learning-to-prevent and learning-to-recover — and show that learning-to-prevent yields a disruption-free network as time approaches infinity. Over finite horizons, however, learning-to-recover can drive greater network learning when disruption likelihood is low. We also find that centrally positioned suppliers generally accelerate network learning, except when both disruption risk and diffusion probability are high; under these conditions, noncentral suppliers become more critical. Our framework clarifies when and where supplier learning most effectively strengthens supply network resilience.Speaker's Bio:
Dr. Kedong Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration and M.S. in Statistics from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Chen's research lies at the intersection of network analysis, risk management, and innovation management. He has received research grants from the Alibaba Group, the Old Dominion University Research Foundation, and the RPI Teaching and Learning Collaboratory Board. His research has been published in several premier business journals and recognized with Best Paper Awards at the Academy of Management, INFORMS, and POM conferences. Dr. Chen serves on the editorial review boards of leading business journals and has received the Best Reviewer Award from Omega.