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Introduction
Global operations and supply chains are undergoing profound transformation driven by rapid advances in digital technologies, data ecosystems, and automation. Organizations across industries now rely on artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, cloud platforms, blockchain, and cyber-physical systems to enhance transparency, efficiency, and responsiveness. At the same time, escalating geopolitical tensions, tariff conflicts, climate-induced disruptions, logistics bottlenecks, and supplier vulnerabilities continue to expose weaknesses in traditional global sourcing and operational models. These concurrent forces have intensified scholarly and managerial interest in understanding how technology-enabled approaches can support resilient, sustainable, and high-performing global operations.
Despite substantial growth in research on digital transformation, resilience, and global sourcing, the existing literature often treats these areas independently. Studies tend to examine technologies in isolation or focus narrowly on operational outcomes without integrating broader issues of risk mitigation, sustainability, and strategic sourcing. Consequently, a comprehensive understanding of how technological capabilities interact with supply chain resilience mechanisms, adaptive sourcing strategies, and sustainability goals remains limited.
This Special Issue addresses these gaps by offering an integrated platform for conceptual, empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented contributions. It seeks to advance theory and practice at the intersection of technology-enabled operations, global sourcing strategy, and supply chain resilience.
List of Topic Areas
The Special Issue encourages submissions that explore:
- New theoretical frameworks explaining how digital capabilities shape global operations and resilience.
- Empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, simulation, or mixed methods to examine technology-enabled sourcing and supply networks.
- Industry-focused analyses demonstrating how organizations navigate disruptions through advanced data-driven decision-making.
- Insights into sustainability, ethical sourcing, circularity, and environmental performance enabled by digital systems.
- Comparative perspectives across industries, countries, or regions to understand cross-sector differences in technology-enabled resilience.
This Special Issue aligns with global policy and societal priorities, making direct contributions to multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and SDG 13 (Climate Action).
By addressing major contemporary challenges such as climate risk, geopolitical instability, and resource pressures, the Special Issue will offer actionable insights for academics, policymakers, and industry leaders.
Ultimately, this Special Issue aims to consolidate emerging perspectives that explain how digitalization, sustainability, and strategic resilience intersect to shape the future of global operations and sourcing. Through rigorous peer-reviewed contributions, the issue will advance scholarly knowledge, strengthen managerial practice, and guide organizations seeking to build adaptive and sustainable global supply chains.
Guest Editors
Dr. Aamir Rashid, City University of New York, USA, arashid6@york.cuny.edu
Dr. Rizwana Rasheed, City University of New York, USA, rizwana.rasheed@csi.cuny.edu
Submissions Information
Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Author guidelines must be strictly followed.
Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.
Key Deadlines
Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 1st March 2026
Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31st August 2026
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