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Global Risks 2009 – Countries at risk?

How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? The 2009 Global Risk Report by the World Economic Forum takes a broad look, not a certain industries or sectors or parts of the economy, but looks at whole countries and their risk preparedness.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Next time in China: Guanxi
Today's post is an extension of what I wrote yesterday, in my review of what Fu Jia and Christine Ru[...]
Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative
The risk management literature separates between mitigative actions or strategies and contingent act[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management
Operations Management and Logistics have been around for a while, but Supply Chain Management is a r[...]
Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain, and today's article introduces a new metho[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2012
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we s[...]
Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure
NTP 2010-2019
Following up my post this morning called "D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure", the numbers [...]
from HERE and THERE
Economies of scale
In an article in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet today, some of Norways's major construction busin[...]
The Grapevine - An evolving social media experiment
Thanks to my LinkedIn connection with Jeff Ashcroft of  the SupplyChainNetwork I was made aware of a[...]