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Broader research = better research?

I like mixing ideas, and my approach to logistics, or supply chain management is no exception.

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Transportation reliability and vulnerability

This is a philosophical essay on transportation vulnerability, where three fields or subjects are brought together : engineering (reliability and vulnerability), economics (cost and benefits) and politics (decision making).The research essay aims at taking reliability and vulnerability into the realm of cost-benefit analysis to serve as decision support.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The impact of supply chain disasters
Disasters. The result: Damaged infrastructure. End result: Disrupted supply chains. But how do disas[...]
Catastrophic events in supply chains
After studying supply chain risk research for some time I have begun to realize that  much of the su[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This book by Martin Christopher, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, is one of the better if [...]
Supply Chain Logistics Risk in Germany
What are the most common supply chain and logistics risks that businesses and logistics providers ha[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? That's what we all wonder about, isn't[...]
Creating the resilient supply chain
This blog is about supply chain risk, business continuity and transport vulnerability, and while I h[...]
from HERE and THERE
Call for papers – MITIP 2009
The factory of the future is calling for a shift in strategic vision.  Already, many operations are [...]
TRB 2009 - are you going there, too?
Are you presenting at the TRB 2009, the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting? Personally I c[...]