Supply chain resilience: four perspectives on the concept

Presence of risk or perception of uncertainty in supply chains tends to induce unstable conditions and compromise decisions in organizations. This situation leads to the need to assess the resilience of these arrangements, understood as the capacity to coexist competitively with situations of tension in these chains. In this sense, the present study aimed to identify the understanding of this construct and the convergence between different approaches to this concept, present in recent literature, particularly accelerated by the advent of the global pandemic associated with COVID-19. Thus, a bibliometric study was developed on the SCOPUS base, concentrated in the period from 2015 to 2022, with the main documents containing the words resilience in supply chains and analyzed using the VOSViwer tool. The construction of a theoretical inventory on the resilience construct in supply chains indicated the presence of different perspectives on resilience. The critical comparison between these perspectives offered an understanding of these in terms of approach and research context. As main results, the presence of four perspectives of the resilience approach in supply chains was identified which, although relatable, present different patterns. This result provides a basis for comparisons and compositions of these perspectives, leading to the advancement of knowledge about this phenomenon.