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Next time in China: Guanxi

Guanxi: Connections and relations are what matter most, while contracts, rules and laws are to likely to be overridden if they are in conflict with harmonious relations.

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Supply Chain Risk: Culture Shock

Is culture shock the reason why so many global and cross-culture business relationships fail? When it comes to Western buyers and Chinese suppliers this may very well be the case, and while issues related to product quality or supplier reliability may seem as the obvious cause externally, cultural differences may be the root cause internally.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risk versus vulnerability
What is risk, and what is vulnerability? While connected, they are not the same, and perhaps, often [...]
Supply Chain Risk Management - A relationship approach
I couldĀ haveĀ just re-used the title on my post on risks in supply networks from a couple days ago an[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
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[...]
One bad apple...
...spoils the barrel? Yesterday I sat down to prepare a review of this book, Managing Risks in Suppl[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
from HERE and THERE
Lean logistics = risky logistics?
A posting on Evolving Excellence called Long is not Lean caught my attention the other day. The auth[...]
2010 - the year of catastrophe
It's Sunday and time for some weekend reflections, aka browsing the Internet for blogs and websites [...]