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Risk in supply networks – a tale of principals and agents

It is not often that I see a paper focusing on the network relationships risks rather than the network risks, let alone applying the principal-agent theory so elegantly.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Transportation - the forgotten staple
What a difference a title makes. I only found this article because it was referenced in another arti[...]
Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative
The risk management literature separates between mitigative actions or strategies and contingent act[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks
Done...I finally made it! Today I submitted my full chapter for the book on Managing Risk in Virtual[...]
Book Review: Heads in the sand
Finally, after 5 days of volcanic ash cloud posting, I can return to my regular topics of supply cha[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
When disaster strikes...
...how does the transportation network recover? And why are transportation networks so essential to [...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Retail Operations in China
In a previous post on the Retail SCM Summit 2011 I mentioned that China as a rising economic powerho[...]
Can you outsource risk?
While China has taken steps to address safety concerns after the recalls of last year, yet small pl[...]