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Book Review: Your Research Project

This book is a must-have for any serious student or budding research. The book emphasises that research is based on structure and logic. The book teaches by example how to do research. I think that is what makes this such a brilliant book to have and read and put to use.

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Theory versus Practice

Theory is important in supply chain research, by helping us make sense out of chaos, but what is theory, what constitutes a valuable theoretical contribution and how can theoretical deliberations produce richer explanations and practical applications in supply chain research?

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What kind of Supplychainist are you?

What is SCM really, is it just a new name for logistics or is it possible to distinguish certain perspectives?

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Finding academic articles without academic journals

Many management or supply chain related websites provide the same articles for free (or sometimes at a prenium). Formatting and graphics is usually stripped out, but the content is till there.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Turbulence
We are living in turbulent times. So are our supply chains. Nonetheless, the standard tenets of supp[...]
Disruptions in supply networks
Supply chain disturbances and supply chain disruptions. Not the same and very different from each ot[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Your Research Project
This book is a must-have for any serious student or budding research. Even if you consider yourself [...]
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
Global Risks 2012
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we s[...]
from HERE and THERE
CPM 2010 East in NYC
Behind this perhaps cryptic title (for some, but not for others, especially those in the BCM industr[...]
Suites - what suites?
I have been swamped with work this week. In fact, so swamped that I forgot to watch episode two of "[...]