Daily Archives: 2008-11-02

Strategies for managing risk in multinational corporations

In my post two days ago, reviewing the article by Manuj and Mentzer (2008) titled Global Supply Chain Risk Management, I mentioned that they cited a paper by Ghoshal (1987) titled Global Strategy: An Organizing Framework as one of their references for listing risk management strategies. Today, I will take a closer look at that paper.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Robust, Rapid, Resilient
The resilience of infrastructure systems can be measured by two dimensions: robustness, the extent o[...]
Ericsson versus Nokia - the now classic case of supply chain disruption
When faced with a supply chain disruption, proactive and reactive supply chain risk management can i[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday's perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is[...]
Book Review: Single Point of Failure
Just out a few days ago, Single Point of Failure is a fascinating read. The author, Gary S. Lynch, i[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Many studies have already examined the potential impacts of climate change on broad sectors of the e[...]
Risky cities - want to work there?
If you are doing global business, do you know where you are at risk and what risk that is most perti[...]
from HERE and THERE
eSourcingWiki - can it be trusted?
The other day I came across eSourcingWiki, "a global collaborative effort for supply management best[...]
ETC 2012 - Call for papers
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, the European Transport Conference or ETC is unique in Euro[...]