Tag Archives: Svensson Göran

Corporate vulnerability

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Revised on: 2015-09-03

Göran Svensson is one of the leading key figures in supply chain vulnerability research and his concepts and models of supply chain vulnerability are usually well thought-out and easy to understand. So is Key areas, causes and contingency planning of corporate vulnerability in supply chains: A qualitative approach. Here Svensson builds the construct of supply chain vulnerability around three components: time dependence, functional dependence and relational dependence.

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Vulnerability in business relationships

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Revised on: 2015-09-23

Today’s journal article review is an article by professor Göran Svensson from Halmstad University in Sweden. He is one of the first academic contributors to the field of supply chain risk, beginning around 1999. Vulnerability in business relationships was published in 2004, and it came to my attention because a lot of the literature on managaging an mitigating supply chain risk focuses on building relationships with suppliers. Trust and dependence are major components of a dyadic business relationship and therefore, important to discuss.

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Inbound and outbound vulnerability

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Revised on: 2015-09-03

After publishing A conceptual framework for the analysis of vulnerability in supply chains, Gøran Svensson came up with a 2nd article along the same topic in 2002, entitled A conceptual framework of vulnerability in firms’ inbound and outbound logistics flows. The difference between the two papers is that while the former deals with the inbound flow only, the latter incorporates both the inbound and outbound flow.

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A conceptual framework for supply chain vulnerability

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Revised on: 2015-09-03

Today’s article is one of the earlier works on supply chain vulnerability, published in 2000. A conceptual framework for the analysis of vulnerability in supply chains by Göran Svensson uses the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo as grounds for establishing his theoretical framework. This is the first of two papers on the same topic; this paper deals particularly with the inbound supply chain. A second paper, which I will review tomorrow, deals both with inbound and outbound logistics.

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