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SCM: Past, Present and Future

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Revised on: 2015-10-24

What has been achieved, or rather: written, during a decade of academic research in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) field? A lot, obviously, but despite the considerable number of academic contributions, the literature is still very fragmented and although several studies purport to discuss supply chain issues, most of the existing research only examines one link of the chain, or more importantly only focuses on one ingredient in the supply chain performance mix. So say Larry Giunipero, Robert E Hooker, Sacha Joseph-Matthews, Tom E Yoon and Susan Brudvig in their 2008 article on  A Decade of SCM Literature: Past, Present and Future Implications, where they investigate and categorize some 405 articles from 9 academic journals. Their findings are quite interesting.

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Supply Risk Management: just common sense?

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Revised on: 2015-09-10

Am I missing something here? Does Supply Risk Management come down to plain and simple common sense? I don’t mind authors who use propositions in their articles; it usually shows that they have a pretty good grip on their subject. Besides, it adds structure and focus. In their 2004 paper, Securing the upstream supply chain: a risk management approach, Larry C Guinipero and Reham A Eltantawy put forward and explore four propositions reflecting four situational factors that should govern supply risk management. However, as I see it, not only are these propositions not fully exploited, they appear to be little more than basic common sense, or is it me who is way off?

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