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Call for Papers: Global Supply Chain Risk

Supply chain risk seems to be a topic making the rounds in the academic journals these days, and today I received news of another one. The Journal of Business Logistics (JBL) has just issued a call for papers on The scope, nature and management of Global Supply Chain Risk. According to the call, this Special Topics Forum is intended to provide outstanding visibility to high-caliber, leading-edge research in a broad range of supply chain risk management topics. Although many topics appropriate for this special forum may involve the management of logistics-related risk, (only) high-quality research in any area of global supply chain risk management will be considered for inclusion. In other words, it is really your best work that should be considered for submission.

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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. So say Michael E. Smith and Lee Buddress in their 2005 article, Supply chain management: borrowing our way to a discipline. But what do they actually mean? And why does supply chain management need a wider horizon in the first place?

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