1. Introduction
Researching supply chain risks (i.e. the exposure to a premise of which the outcome is
uncertain, Rao and Goldsby, 2009), supply chain risk management (SCRM) is one of the fastest growing areas in logistics research. In a recent supply chain survey among
executives, more than two-thirds of the respondents reported increasing risk over the
past three years, and nearly as many expect that risk will continue rise (McKinsey,
2010)