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Measuring supply chain risk management

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Today’s article is a continuation (or should it rightfully have been the precursor?) of an article I presented two weeks ago. Supply chain risk management and performance: A guiding framework for future development is written by Clare Brindley and Bob Ritchie. In so many ways it is very similar to An emergent framework for supply chain risk management and performance measurement, another article by Clare Brindley and Bob Ritchie that has previously been reviewed on this blog, but in so many other ways it is also very different.

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Measuring supply chain risk management

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

This paper was suggested by one of my readers, and upon reading it I must admit that it IS one of the better papers on supply chain risk management I have come across this year: An emergent framework for supply chain risk management and performance measurement by Bob Ritchie and Clare Brindley. Not only do the authors convey in a clear and precise manner what supply chain risk management is all about; they also construct a framework that provides a description of the factors that affect the nature of the risk management responses in particular situations.

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Supply Chain Risk Management – A relationship approach

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

I could have just re-used the title on my post on risks in supply networks from a couple days ago and called this post “Another tale of principals and agents”, but it’s not that simple. In Risk assessment and relationship management: practical approach to supply chain risk management, Ritchie, Claire & Armstrong (2008) do use the principal-agent theory, but their main issue is the introduction of a new term: risk portfolio management.

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

A comment on a a previous book review – Supply Chain Risk Managament by Donald Waters – prompted me to write this review on a new book on supply chain risk which adresses the commenters concern, namely the lack of scientific or academic usefulness. Where Donald Water’s book was written with the manager in mind, this book – Supply Chain Risk – A Handbook of Assessment, Managment and Performance – by George Zsidisin and Bob Ritchie, is a collection of contributions from established and not so established, renown and not so well-known scholars and practitioners in the field of supply chain risk.

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