SUPPLY CHAIN REDESIGN FOR REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND STRATEGIC RESILIENCE: AN INTEGRATED EMPIRICAL APPROACH

This thesis investigates companies’ need for an integrated regulatory compliance within their supply chains to face a continuously evolving framework of rules. It explores how the integration of compliance, sustainability, and risk management principles can reshape supply chain governance toward more resilient and transparent organizational models. Focusing on Doxee S.p.A., five internal systems were combined to create a dataset of 235 suppliers, being active from January 2024 to June 2025, organised into structural and governance variables. The analysis incorporates various descriptive and inferential techniques to investigate main determinants of a composite Compliance Index covering three frameworks (anti-bribery, information security, and environmental management). Findings show that economic materiality, measured through supplier cost range, is the main predictor of compliance engagement, highlighting that the level of supervision and monitoring intensity is adjusted in proportion to each supplier's strategic and financial significance. From a managerial perspective, such results are consistent with a proportionate, risk-based oversight model. The firm’s ongoing integration of Anti Bribery Management System (ABMS), Information Security Management System (ISMS), and Environmental Management System (EMS) frameworks, marks a transition toward continuous, data-based compliance management, where compliance-by-design approach transforms governance from a reactive control process into a proactive system of innovation and sustainable value creation.