Tag Archives: supply chain risk research

SCRM Research Gaps

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Revised on: 2015-09-04

Supply Chain Risk Management is a area that has seen a significant growth in recent years. However, there is diverse perception of research in supply chain risk because these researchers have approached this area from different domains. A recent article on Researchers’ Perspectives on Supply Chain Risk Management, written by Manmohan S Sodhi, Byung-Gak Son and Christopher S Tang, presents a study of this diversity from the perspectives of operations and supply chain management scholars. In their study they identify three gaps: a definition gap, a process gap and a methodology gap, and they suggest how these gaps can be closed.

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The ISCRiM Newsletter

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Revised on: 2011-08-08

Are you looking for the latest in supply chain risk research? Usually, newsletters from the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM) are the place to find it, and finally, here’s the first and hopefully not the only newsletter for 2011, like in 2010, when there was only one. The ISCRiM Newsletter is filled to the brim with exciting news about journal articles, books and book chapters published by the ISCRiM members, conference papers, conferences to be held that have supply chain risk in their program, research reports and dissertations/theses that deal with supply chain risk, Internet links and useful websites that a researcher in supply chain risk ought to be aware of. It’s a who’s who and what’s what in supply chain risk management. Continue reading →

ISCRiM 2010 Proceedings

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

Two weeks ago I attended the ISCRiM 2010 seminar at Loughborough University, a gathering of some of the finest researchers in supply chain risk. Here I had the chance to meet and talk to the people I so far have only blogged about, and it was a very inspiring two days in Loughborough. In order to disseminate the research that was presented at the seminar to a wider audience I have decided to publish the proceedings on my blog so that other researchers, academics and practioners can keep abreast of the latest in supply chain risk research.

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When your supplier goes bust…

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

…what do you do? Is so-called supplier default something you have even thought about? And what if this supplier is connected to others such that if one fails, others may fail too, like an unstable house of cards? That is what concerns Stephan Wagner, Christoph Bode and Philipp Koziol in their 2008 article on Supplier default dependencies: Empirical evidence from the automotive industry, one of the few articles I know of that deals specifically with this topic. Based on empirical data from automotive suppliers, they reveal that default dependencies among suppliers do often exist and can have significant consequences.

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ISCRiM 2010

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Revised on: 2014-07-30

I am currently attending the 2010 seminar of the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM) here in the UK, which is why there won’t be too many – if any – posts from me this week. ISCRiM is perhaps the network for the elite among supply chain risk researchers, and since the seminar is open to invited guests and members only, and since I am not a member, I feel honored to have been invited into this distinguished circle of academics and professionals.

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The ISCRiM Newsletter 1/2010

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Revised on: 2011-03-17

If you are a researcher, a student, a professor and if you have an academic interest in Supply Chain Risk Management or if you simply would like to know the latest research that is going on in this exciting field, the ISCRiM Newsletter is an indispensable resource. Published 2-3 times a year by the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network the newsletter has the latest on published articles, research reports, PhD theses, weblinks, and some buzz from the people who work with supply chain risk research for a living.

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Supply chain agility – Risk mitigation and response

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Revised on: 2015-09-03

How does company culture shape a firm’s risk mitigation and response, and thus, how does company culture shape a firm’s supply chain agility? That is the research question asked by Michael J Braunscheidel and Nallan C Suresh in their 2009 article The organizational antecedents of a firm’s supply chain agility for risk mitigation and response. The article was suggested to me by one of my readers as his ‘favorite’, and after reading it I do understand why, because it links up with and extends many previous works on supply chain flexibility and supply chain agility.

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Catastrophic events in supply chains

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Revised on: 2015-09-26

After studying supply chain risk research for some time I have begun to realize that  much of the supply chain risk literature lacks direction and that each researcher or strand of researchers have their own presuppositions as to what supply chain risk is and how it should be addressed. In Knemeyer, A. M., Zinn, W. & Eroglu, C. (2009) Proactive planning for catastrophic events in supply chains, fortunately, there is a clear direction for further research and practical application as to how companies can evaluate and plan for catastrophic risk in supply chains.

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Risk management: core competence?

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Revised on: 2015-09-03

Is risk management overlooked as an important source of competitive advantage? That is the question sought answered by Donald Lessard and Rafael Lucea in their recent paper on Embracing risk as a core competence: The case of CEMEX. While the case itself is interesting, what the paper does highlight most is that instead of shedding risk, companies should accept risk as an opportunity. It should be welcomed, not feared. Why?

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Measuring supply chain risk management

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Today’s article is a continuation (or should it rightfully have been the precursor?) of an article I presented two weeks ago. Supply chain risk management and performance: A guiding framework for future development is written by Clare Brindley and Bob Ritchie. In so many ways it is very similar to An emergent framework for supply chain risk management and performance measurement, another article by Clare Brindley and Bob Ritchie that has previously been reviewed on this blog, but in so many other ways it is also very different.

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Measuring supply chain risk management

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

This paper was suggested by one of my readers, and upon reading it I must admit that it IS one of the better papers on supply chain risk management I have come across this year: An emergent framework for supply chain risk management and performance measurement by Bob Ritchie and Clare Brindley. Not only do the authors convey in a clear and precise manner what supply chain risk management is all about; they also construct a framework that provides a description of the factors that affect the nature of the risk management responses in particular situations.

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Corporate vulnerability

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Revised on: 2015-09-03

Göran Svensson is one of the leading key figures in supply chain vulnerability research and his concepts and models of supply chain vulnerability are usually well thought-out and easy to understand. So is Key areas, causes and contingency planning of corporate vulnerability in supply chains: A qualitative approach. Here Svensson builds the construct of supply chain vulnerability around three components: time dependence, functional dependence and relational dependence.

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Risks in virtual enterprise networks and supply chains

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Revised on: 2015-09-05

It is not unusual for suppliers in a supply chain to come together and act as a Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) and today’s supply chains exhibit many VEN-like features. Is managing risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks different from managing risks in supply chains? With this in mind I submitted a paper to MITIP2009, the 11th International Conference on the Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of the Industrial Enterprises, to be held in Bergamo, Italy, in October.

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Supply chain risk management – a literature review

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Revised on: 2015-09-27

Is it possible to summarize  seven years of supply chain risk management research and find a common theme or definition of what supply chain risk is all about? Apparently not. In Supply chain risk management: literature review and future research, Vanany, Zailani and Pujawan, three scholars from Indonesia and Malaysia, review and classify 82 articles in what is the most complete review that I have seen to date. But…is it a helpful review?

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