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The effects of brand reputation on supply chain risk

One of the major fallouts from the current finical crisis is the loss of brand reputation, and it may not even be the company’s fault. SAAB owes money to some 1400 debtors, and rumors have it that some suppliers have stopped deliveries because of delinquent payments.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risk versus vulnerability
What is risk, and what is vulnerability? While connected, they are not the same, and perhaps, often [...]
Six levels of risk management
In spite of all efforts to design safer systems, we still witness severe, large-scale accidents. A b[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Political Risk
Egypt is in crisis. After Tunisia, now Egypt is rocked by a popular uprising, and the outcome of the[...]
Risk and resilience in maritime logistics
This week's focus are risks in the maritime supply chain and today's paper sets out a framework for [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
Global Resilience Index
The 2015 FM Global Resilience Index provides an annual ranking of 130 countries and territories acco[...]
from HERE and THERE
The reliability and vulnerability of transportation lifelines
How can we assess how reliable or vulnerable the transportation is, and which parameters can we appl[...]
Research Blogging - for the investigative mind?
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you will notice that many posts reviewing  the literature n[...]