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Ménage à trois – the good, the bad and the ugly

Triads in supply networks: Theorizing buyer-supplier-relationships by Thomas Y Choi and Zhaohui Wu is a fascinating read and a brilliant attempt at classifying buyer-supplier triads into nine distinctively different configurations.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Next time in China: Guanxi
Today's post is an extension of what I wrote yesterday, in my review of what Fu Jia and Christine Ru[...]
Seconds From Disaster
Accidents don't just happen. They are a chain of critical events leading up to the disaster. Everyon[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability
Another book by someone from the ISCRiM group? No, not this time, or perhaps, yes, after all. Managi[...]
Book Review: Global Supply Chain Management
The Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management is an excellent book. My interest in it stems from th[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my regular rants about the state of the Norwegian infr[...]
from HERE and THERE
Sheffi's disruption profile
There is a figure in the book The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Adv[...]
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[...]