Unbeknown to me – or perhaps I really should have known better – there appears to be a large body of supply chain risk research written in German, as I just recently discovered. Lucky for me, I am fluent in German, and today I am presenting a PhD dissertation that I came across recently. Supply Frühwarnsysteme: Die Identifikation und Analyse von Risiken in Einkauf und Supply Management by Marco Moder, a PhD student at the European Business School, published in 2008. There are some 400 good reasons to get hold of it, particularly if you speak German, wonder why?
An ISCRIM gem
I have been so busy with work lately that I have completely forgotten to thoroughly read the ISCRIM newsletter that came out two months ago. It’s a shame, because the ISCRIM Newsletter features the latest research and publications in supply chain risk and is a highly valuable source for digging up new findings, and this is where I – belatedly, I could add – came across this dissertation.
Early warnings of impending risks
For those of you not so well-versed in the German language, Supply Frühwarnsysteme means Early Warning Systems, and as far as I am able to gather, the case study used in the dissertation is the development and implementation of a corporate-wide supply risk management system at Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany.
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Unfortunately, Marco Moder’s dissertation is neither available at my library, nor through an inter-library loan, and the acquisition librarian told me that they would not be likely to acquire it since it is in German, and thus has a very limited audience…yeah right, it’s probably only me, anyway. Fortunately though, there is Google Books, and albeit half the pages or so are missing due to copyright issues, a glimpse of what the dissertation is about is still possible: Google Books – Supply Frühwarnsysteme. A brief preview is also available on the publisher’s website: Gabler Online – Supply Frühwarnsysteme, presumably the same as in Google Books.
References, references, references
The dissertation features no less than 27 pages with at least 400 references, most of them in German, so if you are looking for German literature on supply chain risk, my guess is that most, if not all of the good ones are contained here. While the dissertation is not available for free download anywhere, and the reference list does not show on the aforementioned Google Books, the reference list is available on the SpringerLink website, see where to find it in the image left.
Case study survey questions
In the reference list mentioned above, you will also find the survey questions used for the case study and a short description of the references that were directly used as the empirical and/or theoretical background for the case study. The questionnaire uses a 7-point Likert scale in identifying important supply chain risks and the also importance and effects of an early warning system. Looking at the questions posed in this survey can be very helpful in designing your own survey on supply chain risk. It will definitely help me in my research.
Reference
Moder, M (2008) Supply Frühwarnsysteme: Die Identifikation und Analyse von Risiken in Einkauf und Supply Management. Unpublished PhD dissertation. European Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Download
- springerlink.de: Supply Frühwarnsysteme
- books.google.com: Supply Frühwarnsysteme
Publisher Link
- gabler.de: Supply Frühwarnsysteme
amazon
- Buy this book form amazon.com: Supply Frühwarnsysteme
Author Link
- moder.de: Marco Moder
Related
- husdal.com: The Supply Chain of the Future
