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International Transport Economics Conference 2009

The International Transport Economics Conference (ITrEC) 2009 will be held during June 15-16, 2009, at the University of Minnesota. If you haven’t already done so, make sure to bookmark this conference in your calendar.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Not all risk is risk
How to define, understand and describe risk
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The six ways of dealing with risk
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
The Definition of Agility
Although getting close to 20 years old now, The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools, wri[...]
Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday's perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Are roads more important than computers?
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Risky cities - want to work there?
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from HERE and THERE
Three steps to make your supply chain less vulnerable
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Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers
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