Are you currently planning to write or actually writing a paper on supply chain risk and wondering what would be a good journal to publish it in? Here is one for you: A special issue of Production and Operations Management titled Global Supply Chain Risk Management. The goal of this special issue is to publish high quality and relevant research on new ways to manage risk in global complex supply chain networks. Considering how interconnected and interrelated global supply chains are, its not surprising that this topic appears in one special issue after the other in one journal after the other. For supply chain risk researchers like me this is an advantage, as it is often easier to get published in a special issue than in a regular issue.
An array of issues
The call for papers start by listing some of the problems associated with global supply chains, such as lack of visibility in supplier reliability, cost and product quality, and uncertainties associated with rapid changes in technology and product life cycle, frequent natural and human disasters, and unstable market and exchange rates, and that is only part of the picture.
Past research has well documented the impact of supply chain disruptions on operational performance that has caused serious damage to profitability of firms leading to loss of shareholder wealth and reputation.
Definitely so. One good paper on this matter is Hendricks and Singhal (2005), looking at the effect of supply chain glitches on shareholder value.
Global chains and local issues having global effects
Global supply chains must work in different countries, under different cultures, business ethics and customs, and different political and regulatory regimes.
At the same time, the unstoppable globalization of economies continues to expand the spectrum of risks that industry supply chains have to bear, in particular, the type of risks associated with operating in emerging markets and in the global arena filled with governmental and economic players with different regulatory and tax regimes, disparate business cultures, varying level of economic development, and different sense of social and environmental responsibilities.
Many of these issues have been dealt upon in previous papers, such as the late Ghoshal’s seminal paper that was published as early as 1987: Global Strategy: An Organizing Framework, and two papers from 2008 by Manuj and Mentzer: Global Supply Chain Risk Management and Global Supply Chain Risk Management Strategies. These are justy some of the papers that belong in your literature review if you plan to submit an article for the special issue.
Topics of interest for the special issue
Although this is a special issue, there is a wide range of topics to choose from and the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Supply chain strategies to deal with overall economic risk (recessions or recoveries)
- Risks and benefits of operating in emerging markets
- Risk assessment and operational approaches to manage risk in global supply chains
- Decision models with supply side quality and/or capacity risk
- Case studies of effective supply chain risk management
- Collaborative risk management mechanisms to strengthen ties with supply chain partners
- Risk management across lifecycle of supply chain activities
- Risks brought forth by lack of informational visibility across the supply chain
- Supply chain data and process security, IP risk and remediation policies
- Regulatory compliance risk
According to the call, papers that capture the economics that govern the interaction among the firms in a supply chain are of particular interest.
Submission Deadline
Don forget to submit your paper before 1 November 2011.
More information – where and how to submit
Related posts
- husdal.com: Global Supply Chain Risk Management
