Semiconductor manufacturing has become a strategically critical global industry, yet its supply chains remain exposed to persistent disruption from geopolitical conflict, natural disasters, cyberattacks, and intellectual property risk. The objectives of the current research project are to review available literature on semiconductor supply chain recovery and resilience, recognize gaps in research on recovery from disruption, and to propose a structure to allow for developing recovery strategies, this study conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) following the PRISMA methodology, drawing on a final dataset of 344 publications from the Scopus database and synthesizing results through bibliometric network visualization using VOS viewer. The findings reveal a substantial imbalance in the literature: while resilience strategies for absorbing and mitigating disruptions are extensively studied, structured approaches for post-disruption recovery and restoration of long-term operational readiness remain limited. Building on this finding, the paper proposes a Semiconductor Supply Chain Recovery Framework that treats resilience and recovery as distinct but interdependent imperatives. The framework organizes recovery strategies across four sequential response horizons detection, Immediate, Short-Term, and Long-Term and three parallel tracks Operational, Collaborative, and regulatory spanning early disruption detection, cross enterprise coordination, and phased, node-by-node restoration of production and distribution capacity. To operationalize these strategies across differing organizational contexts, the study further develops a Recovery Strategy Applicability Matrix that maps recovery actions onto four firm archetypes according to their resource and institutional capacity. Given the fragmented, proprietary, and globally distributed nature of semiconductor manufacturing, and the compounding effects of geopolitical tension and cyber threats on both resilience and recovery speed, this framework connects passive risk identification to proactive recovery engineering for the global semiconductor supply chain.
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A Strategic Recovery Framework for Semiconductor Supply Chains
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Received: 21 August 2026 | Revised: 25 October 2026 | Accepted: 28 October 2026 | Published: 05 November 2026
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Keywords
semiconductor supply chain | supply chain resilience | supply chain recovery | biblio-metric analysis | recovery framework | geopolitical risk | systematic literature review | VOS viewer
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