Unbeknown to me – or perhaps I really should have known better – there appears to be a large body of supply chain risk research written in German, as I just recently discovered. Lucky for me, I am fluent in German, and today I am presenting a PhD dissertation that I came across recently. Supply Frühwarnsysteme: Die Identifikation und Analyse von Risiken in Einkauf und Supply Management by Marco Moder, a PhD student at the European Business School, published in 2008. There are some 400 good reasons to get hold of it, particularly if you speak German, wonder why?

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