Supply chain disturbances and supply chain disruptions. Not the same and very different from each other. The former can be managed and solved within an established supply chain, the latter often requires establishing a new supply network. That is why Phil Greening and Christine Rutherford assume a network perspective in their recent article titled Disruptions and supply networks: a multi-level, multi-theoretical relational perspective. Here they develop a conceptual framework for the analysis of supply network disruptions and present a number of propositions to define a future research agenda. The ability to understand the implications of network structure and network relational dynamics in the context of disruption will enable managers to respond appropriately to disruptive supply chain events, so they say.

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