Can Supply Chain Finance help mitigate the financial disruption brought by Covid-19?

The Covid-19 pandemic created a financial disruption within supply chains, which is destabilizing especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and could be devastating for the global economy. Supply chain finance (SCF) was an answer to the 2008 financial crisis and could help facing the new challenge, but new paradigms are necessary, to become an effective mitigation strategy. Through the support of empirical data collected through a focus group with industry experts, this note presents new research directions in the SCF domain, based on Contingency Theory and Resource Orchestration Theory, including new solutions, actors, collaborations, technologies, regulations, and performance.

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This article examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on supply chain finance, suggesting the need for new paradigms to address financial crises and outlining new solutions, partnerships, and technologies.