An Overview of Supply Chain Dynamics from a Behavioral Operations Perspective

This chapter provides an overview of the state of the art in Behavioral Operations Management studies focusing on supply chain dynamics. Specifically, we show how, in the last decade, this field of study has been gaining momentum in scholarly research. Additionally, we focus on supply chain dynamics and perform a systematic literature review on the behavioral causes of the bullwhip effect. Finally, we offer an illustration of how multi-method research can enrich behavioral operations management by presenting the results of a study in which a behavioral cause of supply chain dynamics, namely risk aversion is explored by combining human experiments and simulation.