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The Catch 22 of Academic Publishing

Posted on 2009-05-27 by

“Publish or perish”. Apparently, getting published in the first place is not as easy as it seems, and the peer-review process may not as objective and unbiased as you may think.

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Robustness, resilience, flexibility and agility

Posted on 2009-05-26 by

These concepts are often confused, and thus, warrant further explanation. They are distinctively different.

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Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain

Posted on 2009-05-25 by

This book is clear and concise, to the point, and constantly switching between risk management in general, supply chain risk, and business continuity, always seeing the whole picture

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Risk in supply networks – seeing it all, or not?

Posted on 2009-05-24 by

This paper is an excellent discourse on types of risk, sources of risks and descriptions of risk. Particularly, it relates risk to loss and consequences.

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The Grapevine – An evolving social media experiment

Posted on 2009-05-23 by

The Grapevine – An evolving social media experiment, promising “access to free international publications and white papers no matter what your location in the world”. On first glance it looks worthwhile, although a profusion of Google Ads and small design glitches takes some points of my final score: 6/10. It will be interesting to follow this site and see where its headed; but as a solid source of information? Nah…

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Supply Risk Management: just common sense?

Posted on 2009-05-22 by

There are four situational factors that are important in supply chains, namely, the buyer, the supplier, the product bought, and the environment surrounding the purchase.

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A-maze-ing discoveries

Posted on 2009-05-20 by

After only knowing about it for a day or two, I must say that I am fascinated by the Theory of Constraints and I intend to find out more about it.

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Supply Chain Risk Management – as seen from Space

Posted on 2009-05-19 by

Is it possible to reconcile supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management with corporate governance, business continuity, national security and emergency planning?

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Secure Supply Chain Collaboration

Posted on 2009-05-18 by

SecureSCM is an EU-funded research project aimed at finding secure computation protocols for collaborative Supply Chain Management. The project brings together researchers from mathematics, computer science, information systems and management to work together to solve this common problem.

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Research Blogging – for the investigative mind?

Posted on 2009-05-17 by

I have finally found the right outlet for disseminating my literature blogposts: Research Blogging allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research.

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Agile Business Continuity

Posted on 2009-05-16 by

The other day I came across a new term: Agile Business Continuity, on the blog of Paul James, agilecontinuity.org. It is a blog that is well worth reading and I think that the word agile really captures the essence of what business continuity management (BCM) is about in the first place.

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How the wrong people can ruin a supply chain

Posted on 2009-05-15 by

People are what makes organizations work, or in some cases, not work. What happens if you don’t have the right people? Well, you may have disaster waiting to happen from within.

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Lean logistics = risky logistics?

Posted on 2009-05-14 by

Lean does not necessarily make you more vulnerable or less robust towards supply chain disruptions. Lean implies agile, and agile is what is needed to overcome supply chain disruptions.

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Finding academic articles without academic journals

Posted on 2009-05-13 by

Many management or supply chain related websites provide the same articles for free (or sometimes at a prenium). Formatting and graphics is usually stripped out, but the content is till there.

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The ISCRiM Newsletter 1/2009

Posted on 2009-05-12 by

As a researcher within supply chain risk, I find the ISCRiM Newsletters a valuable source of information, particularily for academia-related news. The International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM) is a network of academians interested in how to handle different types of risks in the supply chain. The main purpose of the ISCRIM-network is to speed up, and improve, the research within “Supply Chain Risk Management”

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Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain

Posted on 2009-05-11 by

We need to consider how a supplier is embedded in its own networks if we are to truly gauge its performance.

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Global supply chain risk management strategies

Posted on 2009-05-07 by

Three factors affect the selection of risk management strategies: temporal focus, supply chain flexibility and supply chain environment.

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Risk and Supply Chain Management – A Research Agenda

Posted on 2009-05-05 by

Albeit exploratory and conceptual in its approach, the article provides valuable insights into the current literature.

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Book Review: Virtual Teams

Posted on 2009-04-22 by

What is comes down to is that virtual teams have six challenges: Distance, Time, Technology, Culture, Trust and Leadership. Jill Nemiro and her co-editors have put together a 764-page monster of a book. It’s not a handbook, it’s a handbrick.

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