In an era of deepening globalization, corporate resilience strategies are critical for mitigating supply chain disruptions arising from natural hazards, political volatility, and cultural divides. The Red Sea Crisis and similar disruptions demonstrate that globalization, while optimizing efficiency, simultaneously increases supply chain risks. Thus, employing a mixed-method approach integrating case studies, global trade data analysis, and literature review, this paper investigates how globalization exacerbates supply chain vulnerability and how businesses navigate the trade-off between resilience and efficiency in global networks. The results indicate that the geographic dispersion of suppliers increases the risk of supply chain disruption and raises coordination costs, thus highlighting the need for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to proactively build resilience through strategies like Ciscos Business Continuity Program and Supplier Diversity. In addition, it further suggests that integrating digital tools, particularly blockchain technology and co-collaboration platforms, can help firms strike a dynamic balance between resilience and operational efficiency. Moreover, the use of AI-driven predictive modeling emerges as a promising direction for future research, offering new possibilities for building more sustainable and adaptive supply chains.
Ke Xu (Tue,) studied this question.