Explanation of Factors Affecting Supply Risk Management in Automotive industry Supply Chain: A Grounded Theory

This article tries to identify what and how factors influence on management of supply risk in automotive industry supply chain. Rely on grounded theory and based on 13qualitative in-depth interviews with 10 managers in Iran''s automotive industry supply chain، a theoretical framework is developed to examine antecedents and influencing factors of this process. This framework suggests a broad range of factors caused to an automobile manufacturer manage the supply risk. These factors are named perceptual-attributive factors. In addition، the varied contextual and contingency factors are affecting on automobile manufacturer decisions and guiding their actions/reactions in this process. Such factors are categorized as bedder factors and contingency factors.