Industry 4.0 adoption for healthcare supply chain performance during COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil and India: the mediating role of resilience abilities development

Abstract

This research investigates the mediation of resilience abilities on the relationship between Industry 4.0 technologies adoption and healthcare supply chain performance during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil and India. We surveyed 179 practitioners from organizations at different tiers of the healthcare supply chain (e.g., manufacturers, distributors, and care providers) in July 2021. Multivariate data techniques are used to the collected data to verify the hypotheses anchored on concepts from resource dependence theory. We identify two constructs of Industry 4.0 technologies (named after their predominant roles) and two constructs of resilience abilities (named according to the main abilitie..