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. 2021 Feb 13;148:102271. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102271

Table 2.

Research methodologies used in the reviewed articles.

Methodology Specific Methods Number of Articles References
Empirical Case study 3 Handfield et al., 2020, Majumdar et al., 2020, van Hoek, 2020
Survey (descriptive statistics) 3 Gurbuz and Ozkan, 2020, Okorie et al., 2020, Veselovská, 2020
Quantitative Mathematical model 6 Gupta et al., 2020, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020b, Kargar et al., 2020, Lozano-Diez et al., 2020, Mehrotra et al., 2020, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020a
Analytical model 5 Choi, 2020a, Govindan et al., 2020, Guan et al., 2020, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020b, Rahman et al., 2021
Simulation 7 Ivanov, 2020a, Ivanov, 2020b, Ivanov and Das, 2020, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020c, Lozano-Diez et al., 2020, Singh et al., 2020, Zhu and Krikke, 2020
Secondary data analysis 9 Derevyankina and Yankovskaya, 2020, Farias and Araújo, 2020, Gray, 2020, Nikolopoulos et al., 2020, Novak and Loy, 2020, Richards and Rickard, 2020, Sharma et al., 2020a, Sharma et al., 2020b, Siche, 2020
MCDM method 1 Sharma et al. (2020c)
Review Literature review 5 Ibn-Mohammed et al., 2021, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020a, Iyengar et al., 2020, Kumar et al., 2020, Rizou et al., 2020
Systematic/structured literature review 4 Golan et al., 2020, Queiroz et al., 2020, Vaio et al., 2020, Yuen et al., 2020
Analytical review 1 Craighead et al. (2020)
Researchers’ opinions Perspective/opinion piece/commentary/ viewpoint 25 Abhishek et al., 2020, Amankwah-Amoah, 2020a, Armani et al., 2020, Baveja et al., 2020, Cappelli and Cini, 2020, Chiaramonti and Maniatis, 2020, Deaton and Deaton, 2020, Dente and Hashimoto, 2020, Hakovirta and Denuwara, 2020, Hobbs, 2020, Hosseini, 2020, Jabbour et al., 2020; Ketchen and Craighead, 2020, Larrañeta et al., 2020, Leite et al., 2020, Lemke et al., 2020, Quayson et al., 2020, Reardon et al., 2020, Rowan and Laffey, 2020, Sarkis et al., 2020, Shokrani et al., 2020, Xu et al., 2020a, Yu et al., 2020, Yu and Aviso, 2020, Zhu et al., 2020
Conceptual 2 Gunessee and Subramanian, 2020, Mollenkopf et al., 2020
Discussion 4 Deshmukh and Haleem, 2020, Ishida, 2020, Trautrims et al., 2020, van Barneveld et al., 2020