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Call for Papers: Global Supply Chain Risk

The Journal of Business Logistics (JBL) has just issued a call for papers on The scope, nature and management of Global Supply Chain Risk. This call is intended to provide outstanding visibility to high-caliber, leading-edge research in a broad range of supply chain risk management topics.

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Supply chain management – the new research cocktail?

Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory building based on learned borrowing from other disciplines. That is how academians can breathe new life into the study of supply chain management.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
What goes into resilience?
 Resilience. That seems to be the buzzword these days. It seems to be making its way not only around[...]
Flexing your SCM muscles
A supply chain is never stronger than its weakest link, and that (having a weak link) is perhaps the[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Enterprise SCM
Have you ever played SimCity? I never liked Transport Tycoon that much, but I used to play SimCity a[...]
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Transportation vulnerability and resilience have been the focus of this blog for the past two days, [...]
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
from HERE and THERE
Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake
The recent earthquake in Haiti is a poignant reminder of how vulnerable a country is when it is faci[...]
Can Somali pirates bring down supply chains?
The BBC news this morning ran an interesting and worrying story: Shipping companies are considering [...]