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Published. Not perished.

Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my chapter in it. This book links Virtual Enterprise Networks with Supply Chain Management and Risk Management in a cross-disciplinary fashion.

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One bad apple…

Should an editor care? I believe he should. The editor of this book doesn’t, I simply cannot avoid saying it, and I will explain why. While many of the articles/chapters maintain an excellent academic standard, one of the chapters does not at all hold up to any standard. In fact, it is so bad it makes me wonder how this could have slipped by editorial control?

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How to get a PhD without a dissertation

This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without having one, just because someone mistook one of the posts on this blog to be my PhD. And anyone looking up my work after reading that article now thinks I really have a PhD.

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The Catch 22 of Academic Publishing

“Publish or perish”. Apparently, getting published in the first place is not as easy as it seems, and the peer-review process may not as objective and unbiased as you may think.

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Research Blogging – for the investigative mind?

I have finally found the right outlet for disseminating my literature blogposts: Research Blogging allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research.

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Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks

I must admit that I knew very little, if anything, about Virtual Enterprise Networks when I started this adventure some months back, but I can now say that I am fascinated by the concept

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The art of reviewing journal submissions

It’s always interesting to look at the submission in question and ask myself why was I picked as a referee. Sometimes it is because the article topic is linked to my own research, or maybe because some of my work is listed in the bibliography or references

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
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