A complexity configurations of risk mitigants for supply chain country risk

This study derives asymmetric configurations of risk-mitigating conditions for the supply chain country risk (SCCR) using a configurational comparative method. This study analyzed five risk mitigating conditions to reduce country-specific supply chain risks and explored the causal complexities of risk mitigants for SCCR employing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (FsQCA). The causal configurations of FsQCA confirmed that regulatory and infrastructure quality are critical factors of sufficiency patterns for the presence (high level) or absence (low level) of SCCR. Additionally, the control of corruption in the SC network is a prerequisite for reducing SCCR. Countries have different causal configurations for mitigating SCCR. Thus, each country should consider its specificities when determining the optimal configurations of causal conditions to respond better to low or high levels of SCCR. This is the first attempt to explore the causal complexity in various aspects of mitigating SCCR and to propose the necessary and sufficient conditions for risk-mitigating configurations for SCCR.