An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain
The present study has adopted a mixed method approach to investigate the risks occurring in the supply chain for Iranian medical tourism, and suggests resilience strategies for their prevention and improvements to the current situation. The participants were experts in the medical tourism supply cha...
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| description | The present study has adopted a mixed method approach to investigate the risks occurring in the supply chain for Iranian medical tourism, and suggests resilience strategies for their prevention and improvements to the current situation. The participants were experts in the medical tourism supply chain chosen via purposive and snowball sampling. The results obtained via thematic analysis of interviews, as well as failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and failure analysis after occurrence (FAAO) techniques, led to identifying 75 risks which were classified into five major categories: supply, demand, internal, external and supply chain management risks. Additionally, a literature review and interview results revealed several resilience strategies categorized as pre-risk coping or post-risk recovery strategies for tackling the risks. Furthermore, the resilience number of the medical tourism supply chain increased from 0.4 (pre-risk occurrence) to 0.5 (post-risk occurrence). Implications and suggestions for future research are presented. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-33a965f53af740a88168aa504869a4322025-01-17T07:06:03ZengLodz University PressTourism0867-58562080-69222024-07-0134273410.18778/0867-5856.34.2.0118436An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chainElham Mohammadipour0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8223-5740Esmaeil Mazroui Nasrabadi1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0270-4293University of Isfahan (Isfahan, Iran), Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Department of Management University of Kashan (Kashan, Iran), Faculty of Humanities, Department of Management The present study has adopted a mixed method approach to investigate the risks occurring in the supply chain for Iranian medical tourism, and suggests resilience strategies for their prevention and improvements to the current situation. The participants were experts in the medical tourism supply chain chosen via purposive and snowball sampling. The results obtained via thematic analysis of interviews, as well as failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and failure analysis after occurrence (FAAO) techniques, led to identifying 75 risks which were classified into five major categories: supply, demand, internal, external and supply chain management risks. Additionally, a literature review and interview results revealed several resilience strategies categorized as pre-risk coping or post-risk recovery strategies for tackling the risks. Furthermore, the resilience number of the medical tourism supply chain increased from 0.4 (pre-risk occurrence) to 0.5 (post-risk occurrence). Implications and suggestions for future research are presented.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/tourism/article/view/18634coping strategiesmedical tourism supply chainrecovery strategiessupply chain resiliencesupply chain risks |
| spellingShingle | Elham Mohammadipour Esmaeil Mazroui Nasrabadi An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain Tourism coping strategies medical tourism supply chain recovery strategies supply chain resilience supply chain risks |
| title | An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain |
| title_full | An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain |
| title_fullStr | An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain |
| title_full_unstemmed | An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain |
| title_short | An investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain |
| title_sort | investigation into resilience strategies in the medical tourism supply chain |
| topic | coping strategies medical tourism supply chain recovery strategies supply chain resilience supply chain risks |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/tourism/article/view/18634 |
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