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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
Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species
With 90% of world trade carried by sea, the global network of ships criss-crossing the oceans provid[...]
Single, sole, dual, multiple sourcing?
Old classics never die. While some papers are written, published and quickly forgotten (because no o[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Published. Not perished.
Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my cha[...]
Enterprise-wide Risk Management
Coming from a crisis management and business continuity background, I really enjoyed reading Enterpr[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? That's what we all wonder about, isn't[...]
Global Risks 2012
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we s[...]
from HERE and THERE
The ISCRiM Newsletter 2/2009
I don't know what I would do with the ISCRiM Newsletters from the International Supply Chain Risk Ma[...]
MITIP 2010 – Call for Papers
For several years, when it comes to ICT-driven innovation and production, the MITIP conferences have[...]