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Cyber Risk Management in Supply Chains: Three Essays on Cyber Resilience, Business Continuity, and Information Security

Description: This dissertation provides empirical and theoretical support for the antecedents and consequences of cyber resilience via three essays on cyber resilience. Essay 1 comprises 2 studies using a multi-method empirical research effort to determine whether emphasizing suppliers' implementation and use of business continuity management (S-BCM) is actually beneficial to buyers. In Study 1, data from 150 managers was collected via a survey-based questionnaire to determine whether buyers' adoption of mo… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Sadeghi, J. Kiarash
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An Empirical Investigation of the Medical Supply Chain and Its Impact on Human Solid Organ Transplantation

Description: The objective of this dissertation is to first identify if there are any academic research gaps in our understanding of the medical supply chain and secondly to understand the role and impact of logistics on the human organ transplant process. The first essay identifies the current status of medical supply chain literature and provides future direction for improving the medical supply chain. This was accomplished by preforming a systematic literature review and a bibliometric analysis from 2,16… more
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Date: December 2023
Creator: Hiatt, Brian Joseph
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Exploring Adoption, Implementation, and Use of Autonomous Mobile Robots in Intralogistics Applications

Description: Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) use decentralized, AI-driven decision-making processes to providing material handling capabilities in industrial settings. Essay 1 examines how firms organize and engage to mitigate uncertainty during external technology integration (ETI), using an abductive approach with dyadic customer-supplier data to extend prior ETI models by exploring firm engagement, organizational adaptation, and distinct uncertainty types in AMR ETI projects. Essay 2 applies a grounded … more
Date: August 2022
Creator: Maywald, Jacob Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries

Role of Additive Manufacturing in Restructuring Supply Chains

Description: Additive manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, has been attracting attention from practitioners as well as academicians with its continuous evolution from being used primarily for prototyping to now end-product production. Despite this technology's current and future potential, few studies indicate that AM has not been extensively used across all industries. This dissertation addresses knowledge gaps by providing theoretical and empirical support for adopting AM through three essay… more
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Date: December 2023
Creator: Patil, Himali Kiran
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Understanding the Significance of Patient Empowerment in Health Care Services and Delivery

Description: To address emerging challenges in empowering patients through telehealth, this dissertation has the following objectives: (a) find the key characteristics that enable patient empowerment [PE], (b) determining when will PE work as a solution, (c) find the optimal telehealth care method that enables PE, and (d) evaluate the impact of telehealth on health care outcomes (such as, patient satisfaction, patient trust with primary care providers, etc.) that ultimately enhances PE. These objectives are… more
Date: December 2023
Creator: Bani Hani, Saad Mohammed Fahed
Partner: UNT Libraries
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