o:38283 Enhancing supply chain resilience and robustness through risk management: insights from Serbia en 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. Keywords: Risk management, Supply chain, Resilience, Robustness, Pandemic, PLS-SEM 1552099 10.1057/s41283-025-00167-7 1552101 1460-3799 2026-03-17T09:01:50.829Z 44 no 46 Slobodan Aćimović Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet 0000-0003-3112-3268 Veljko Mijušković Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 0000-0002-0668-8614 Aleksandra Fedajev person Ana Todorović Spasenić person Magdalena Radulescu person application/pdf 983850 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:38283 no yes 1 70 92000001 11A03 Risk management 27 4 1 29 2025