Notice of RetractionAssessment and management vulnerability of supply networks structure based on social networks analysis

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This article focuses on the assessment supply chain vulnerability, and emphasizes at the structure characteristics of supply networks which influence supply networks vulnerability on macroscopic and whole view. Actually, the business and social relationships of the actors involved in supply networks exist simultaneously and twist together. In this research, we apply the social networks theory and tools to analyst the supply networks structure so that managers can assess and mitigate supply networks vulnerability. Several indices of the structure characteristics of supply networks are presented and analyzed in this paper to demonstrate this application in details. Our study indicates that closeness and centrality of supply networks reflect the characteristics of structure, and therefore influence the vulnerability. At last, we present the management insight and conclude this research.