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Overcoming locational disadvantage

When it comes to a business’ physical location in relation to the functioning of the supply chain, obviously there are good locations and bad locations. Can a business’ organization compensate for that?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Call for papers: S-D Logic and Supply Chain Risk
Is supply chain risk is now beginning to enter more and more areas of  supply chain thinking? It wou[...]
MBA - Major Bad Ass?
Are business schools bad for business? I recently came across a very interesting article by the late[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management
Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with th[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
London Olympics and Business Continuity
Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? [...]
from HERE and THERE
Sparse transportation networks and disruptions
The vulnerability of the transportation network as part of the supply chain is of particular interes[...]
2010 - the year of catastrophe
It's Sunday and time for some weekend reflections, aka browsing the Internet for blogs and websites [...]