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Strategic Alliances: Trust Control Risk

Risk perception and risk management are important subjects in management and strategy studies. Alliances are inherently a risky strategy, since the failure rate of alliances is higher than that of a single firm.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Six levels of risk management
In spite of all efforts to design safer systems, we still witness severe, large-scale accidents. A b[...]
Biting the hand that feeds. All firms are snakes.
'All firms are snakes'. So says Paul D. Cousins in A conceptual model for managing long-term inter-o[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Transportation Hazards
This is an updated and extended review of  the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz ([...]
Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise
To me, this book by Yossi Sheffi was an eye-opener, not so much for it's academic value, but for it'[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
A risky business? The top 10 challenges of offshoring
Organisations embarking on offshoring face multiple challenges; many of which can be extremely daunt[...]
Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Many studies have already examined the potential impacts of climate change on broad sectors of the e[...]
from HERE and THERE
Retail SCM Summit 2011
China. Perhaps the biggest arena for future development in logistics and supply chain management? It[...]
How to count money spent on road investments
Following up yesterday's post on why one of the world’s richest countries has one of the world’s wor[...]