Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains

Operational research has become one of the most indispensable tools in business. Modelling and analysis play a major role in abstract representation of business systems and data analysis and, subsequently, in the generation of relevant information for making more accurate decisions. That is why the International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research has issued a call for papers for a Special Issue on Risk Management in Supply Chains, in order to explore the state-of-the-art applications and methods of risk management in supply chains.

Risk Management in Supply Chains

I said it in my recent post on Risk and Supply Chains and I’ve said it before in many of my posts, I’m not a quantitative researcher; I prefer qualitative research where I can ask strategic questions and draw visionary lines, without going into too many details or juggle to many numbers, let alone equations with integrals and sigmas. Like Giordano Bruno, I like to speculate with images, rather than formulas. That said, I will not let my qualitative inclination stop me from promoting a call for papers from a highly quantitative journal. I will not be submitting an article for this special issue, but I’m sure many of may readers may want to.

Call for papers

The recent trends such as offshore manufacturing, lean sourcing and global outsourcing has considerably increased the risk exposure of firms and their supply chains. Topics of interest focus on solving supply chain problems considering risk factors and include, but are not limited to:



  • State-of-the-art reviews
  • Operations decision making under uncertainties
  • Supply chain disruption management
  • Optimisation with risks
  • Risk assessment and mitigation in supply chains
  • Risk management in inventory control
  • Value of information and information asymmetry
  • Impact of risk aversion in supply chain performance
  • Financial risk measures and portfolio risk
  • Risk management in projects

Submission due: 30 June 2010.
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Risk management in supply chains is a crucial discipline which helps companies not only to deal with these risks but also to turn these threats to possible opportunities.
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