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Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species

The global network of ships criss-crossing the oceans provide perhaps the most important mode of transportation for the spread of invasive species that “hitch-hike” with these ships.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Risk: Culture Shock
Is culture shock the reason why so many global and cross-culture business relationships fail? When i[...]
Categorization of Supply Chain Risk
In chapter 2 in Supply Chain Risk by Claire Brindley, there is a framework for assessing and positio[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis
This book, Cost Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (3rd Edition), by Anthony Boardman et al. is[...]
Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This book by Martin Christopher, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, is one of the better if [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
More than a year old now, but still holding not so few words of wisdom is the Pricewaterhouse Cooper[...]
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
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[...]
Can Somali pirates bring down supply chains?
The BBC news this morning ran an interesting and worrying story: Shipping companies are considering [...]