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Resilience strategy can be implemented in a passive and active way. The passive one refers to concentrating on protecting the supply chain against the threats occurring in the environment. Active attitude means searching for new solutions whenever a supply chain has been disrupted or anticipating unfavorable phenomena and tendencies as a result of previous implementations of adequate solutions, e.g. in terms of excessive supplies. A resilient supply chain is the one in which e.g. entities are aware of creating value for a client along with the simultaneous meeting the jointly adopted rules. A resilient supply chain ensures functioning continuity in spite of external factors’ influence, both the predictable and unpredictable (entirely or partly) ones. The conducted research indicates that the features of Japanese culture enhance involvement in many new supply chains and thus make them resilient to threats. The systems and strategies of Japanese companies based on national features are characterized by the strong internal integration, which is significantly weakened by its susceptibility to impacts of external factors. Working in such a company provides the sense of unity in thinking and operating, difficult to imagine for a representative of Western culture (which prefers individualism in attitudes and behaviors). In the article the author presents cultural characteristics of the Japanese and, to confirm their impact on resilience strategies, discusses one of the global network organizations the entities of which operate as suppliers of many components, not only limited to automotive sector.
Keywords: supply chain, resilience, resilient supply chain, Japanese culture© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.