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Reliability and vulnerability versus costs and benefits

The paper outlines a framework for developing a methodology that to incorporate reliability and vulnerability as parameters for decision-support in a cost-benefit analysis. In doing so, this paper seeks to establish a link between the terms reliability/vulnerability and cost/benefit and seeks to describe reliability and vulnerability in terms of cost and benefit.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Biting the hand that feeds. All firms are snakes.
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Realities of supply chain collaboration
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Continuity
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Book Review: Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?
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Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
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from HERE and THERE
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Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake
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