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Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains

The book is a collection of excellent articles by various researchers in supply chain risk from mostly Germany and Austria. To make up for yesterday’s perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is a full and proper content review.

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One bad apple…

Should an editor care? I believe he should. The editor of this book doesn’t, I simply cannot avoid saying it, and I will explain why. While many of the articles/chapters maintain an excellent academic standard, one of the chapters does not at all hold up to any standard. In fact, it is so bad it makes me wonder how this could have slipped by editorial control?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Measuring supply chain risk management
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
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Supplier Risk Management
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