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Supply chain management – the new research cocktail?

Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory building based on learned borrowing from other disciplines. That is how academians can breathe new life into the study of supply chain management.

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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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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability
I'm a quantitative researcher, so I usually shy away from journal articles with too many equations a[...]
Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains
Operational research has become one of the most indispensable tools in business. Modelling and analy[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Managing External Risk
I am blessed to have a college library that complies with most of my book acquisition requests and t[...]
Book Review: Reputation Risk
Reputation. Not only is it practically impossible to measure, its value is also frequently underesti[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
When disaster strikes...
...how does the transportation network recover? And why are transportation networks so essential to [...]
from HERE and THERE
A lesson in supply chain disruption: German railways during WWII
Now this may seem totally off topic, but I have become so engrossed with modern-day supply chains th[...]
The curse of being oil-rich
Ah...the complacency of being oil rich. So complacent, in fact, that we forget about our infrastruct[...]