The Effect of Leadership on Alerts, Agility, and Supply Chain Resilience

This study examines the effect of transactional supply chainSupply chains leadership on supply chain resilienceSupply Chain Resilience, as exhibited by Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) manufacturing managers. The research analyses effects directly and indirectly using alerts and agilityAgility as mediators. An extensive review of over 100 publications on leadershipLeadership, resilienceResilience, agility, and alerts in the supply chainSupply chains was conducted to develop a questionnaire applied to the Mexican MaquiladoraMaquiladora Industry. Two hundred thirty-one responses were collected, and a structural equation model (SEM) using partial least squares (PLS) was employed to test the six hypotheses among variables. The findings indicate that transactional leadershipTransactional leadership in the supply chain significantly impacts direct and indirect resilience through alertness. However, contrary to previous literature on this topic, agilityAgility is not a mediator in the relationship between alertness and resilienceResilience.