Similarities and contrasts of complexity, uncertainty, risks, and resilience in supply chains and temporary multi-organization projects

Although complexity, uncertainty, risk, and resilience are concepts of growing interest, there is a lack of structured synthesis of these concepts and their relationships in supply chain management (SCM) and project management (PM) literatures. This paper addresses this gap through novel tertiary and bibliometric analyses. The tertiary research embraces 22 literature reviews and guides the development of the synthesis framework. The bibliometric analysis includes 1,275 papers and complements the tertiary research with study descriptors, a co-citation, and a static and dynamic/longitudinal co-word network analysis. Authors cite each other within the confines of their research area with no cross-fertilization of studies in PM and SCM, despite several commonalities among the areas. Both areas use similar conceptual definitions and there are close resemblances in risk management in SCM and temporary multi-organization (TMOs) projects. Resilience appears as a new topic in SCM but is absent in TMO. A research agenda closes the paper.