Sometimes the most interesting articles are found outside the mainstream journals of ones field, and so it is with  Seu Keow Cheng and Bon Hooi Kam (2008) A conceptual framework for analyzing risk in supply networks, found in the Journal of Enterprise Information Management, a very unlikely journal for finding a paper on supply chain risk. 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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