Supply chain risk seems to be a topic making the rounds in the academic journals these days, and today I received news of another one. The Journal of Business Logistics (JBL) has just issued a call for papers on The scope, nature and management of Global Supply Chain Risk. According to the call, this Special Topics Forum is intended to provide outstanding visibility to high-caliber, leading-edge research in a broad range of supply chain risk management topics. Although many topics appropriate for this special forum may involve the management of logistics-related risk, (only) high-quality research in any area of global supply chain risk management will be considered for inclusion. In other words, it is really your best work that should be considered for submission.
A wide scope
No one would argue that essential services like electricity and the Internet are not vital to organizational success today. Logistics and Supply functions are equally essential. Without these, an organization receives no inbound goods and cannot distribute its products. Anything that threatens these vital activities threatens a firm’s very existence. Supply chain risk management therefore provides fertile ground for academic investigation, says the call. The scope of this issue is thus quite extensive and suggested topics might include, but are not limited to:
- The nature of supply chain risk management and emerging trends in the study and practice in this rapidly-developing field.
- Advances in the assessment and management of supply chain risk.
- The role of total cost analysis (design versus disruption) in effective supply chain risk strategies.
- Behavioral decision making as an enabler or impediment of effective risk management.
- Risk sharing in multi-firm risk management strategies.
- The role of supply chain risk management in global competitiveness (e.g., how effective supply chain risk management supports competitiveness-enhancing global trade patterns).
- Supply chain risk management in the face of interacting product design and logistics issues.
- Supply cost and performance risk as a result of deteriorating freight transportation infrastructure.
- Securing global supply networks.
- The nature and management of supply risk associated with freight capacity limitations.
- The logistical impact of rapid demand fluctuations and approaches to managing the associated supply risk.
- Assessing and effectively managing supply chain costs associated with logistics price volatility.
- Modeling the economic value of effective supply chain risk management.
- The extent to which supply chain risk and its management varies or is consistent among nations.
ISCRiM
The two guest editors behind this call are not unknown to me: Michael E Smith and Lee Buddress. While I have never met Lee Buddress, I know Michael E Smith from last year’s ISCRiM 2010 meeting. Regular readers of this blog will also remember that I reviewed Smith and Buddress’ article on SCM: Borrowing our way to a new discipline, where I described supply chain management as a new research cocktail. Considering the wide scope of the call, the term “research cocktail” reverberates throughout it, and I am not surprised to see Smith and Buddress as guest editors, and although we ISCRiM members were among the first to receive news of this call, I do hope that this will not turn out to be an ISCRiM only special issue of the JBL.
Submission deadline
Don’t forget to submit your article before 31 December 2011.
Download
- Read the call in full: Global Supply Chain Risk
Publisher link
- wiley.com: Journal of Business Logistics
Related posts
- husdal.com: Global Supply Chain Risk Management
