eng Aćimović, Slobodan Mijušković, Veljko Fedajev, Aleksandra Todorović Spasenić, Ana Radulescu, Magdalena Risk management volume: 27 number: 4 startpage: 1 endpage: 29 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Enhancing supply chain resilience and robustness through risk management: insights from Serbia Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical role of supply chain (SC) risk management in maintaining corporate stability. This study investigates how risk management processes (identification, assessment, control, and mitigation) affect SC resilience and robustness during disruptions, offering insights for enhancing SC adaptability. An empirical analysis was conducted using survey data from 122 Serbian companies and tested via partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Results reveal that pandemic disruption positively influenced risk assessment and mitigation but had no significant effect on risk identification and control. It also negatively impacted SC resilience and robustness. Among the risk management processes, only risk control and assessment significantly contributed to SC robustness, while risk identification and mitigation showed no significant effect. These mixed results suggest the need for firms to improve the integration of risk management phases to strengthen SC performance under disruption. This work was funded by Ministry of Science,Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, 451-03-137/2025-03/200097. 2025 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:38283 doi:10.1057/s41283-025-00167-7 ISSN: 1460-3799 application/pdf 983850 bytes All rights reserved Keywords: Risk management, Supply chain, Resilience, Robustness, Pandemic, PLS-SEM