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 2009/07/01  Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory building based on learned borrowing from other disciplines. That is how academians can breathe new life into the study of supply chain management. So say Michael E. Smith and Lee Buddress in their 2005 article, Supply chain management: borrowing our way to a discipline. But what do they actually mean? And why does supply chain management need a wider horizon in the first place?
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2009/06/10 I have always seen myself as a cross-disciplinary thinker, and I guess that is why I am so often sidetracked and led astray by a-maze-ing discoveries when attempting to focus on a subject. But browsing other areas of study and even borrowing ideas from them can be very beneficial. It can shed a different light on things, and at best, help you not to reinvent the wheel. At least that is what James Stock thought in 1997, when he wrote: Applying theories from other disciplines to logistics.
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2009/06/07 Remember my previous post on Online Journals – curse or blessing? Here’s another take on the issue of online scholarly research: Google Scholar. In Is Google Scholar Truely Scholarly?, on the Black Belt Librarian blog, there is a reference to study published in the May 2009 issue of College & Research Libraries that investigates how Google Scholar compares to library databases. As it turns out, Google Scholar is on average 17.6 percent more scholarly than materials found only in library databases. D’oh! So should you switch to Google Scholar?
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2009/06/05 This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without having one, just because someone mistook one of the posts on this blog to be my PhD. Yes, it’s true, a blog post turned into a PhD dissertation! So much for due diligence when using online sources for doing a literature review. This is the story of how I found out, what I did about it, and why this PhD is not likely to go away.
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2009/05/30 A year ago or so I was perusing the Internet for scholarly or academic blogs, which I found, commented on and then forgot about. Today I stumbled upon an old comment that is a poignant reminder of my post on the Catch 22 of Academic Publishing. It was my comment on the post The Paradox of Online Journals on the blog named The Scholarly Kitchen. The post was referring to a study published in Science Magazine in 2008, where James Evans, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, argued that making scholarly articles available online had narrowed citations to more recent and less diverse articles than before – the opposite of what most people expected.
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2009/05/27 “Publish or perish“. You’ve heard the phrase, right? Well, apparently, getting published in the first place is not as easy as it seems, and the peer-review process may not as objective and unbiased as you may think. If you’re in (that is belonging to the right academic circles, and thus worthy of being published), you’re in, almost no matter what you write, but if you’re not in, finding someone willing to take you in is practically impossible, or is it?
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2009/05/17 If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you will notice that many posts reviewing the literature now have a special icon. And that the journal reference in the post itself links back to the scientific journal website. That is because I have finally found the right outlet for disseminating my literature blogposts, or so I think, at least. As a blogger and emerging expert in my field, I often find exciting new peer-reviewed research I’d like to share, and researchblogging.org appears to be a good place to do just that.
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2009/05/13  As a researcher within supply chain risk, I try to read as many academic journals as possible, and I scour the reference list of every article for hitherto unknown references. I am also extremely lucky to have access to a university library that provides electronic access to a vast number of academic journals, or acquires copies of articles in journals they don’t subscribe to free of charge. Not everybody has such provisions, but there is a solution to the problem: Many management or supply chain related websites provide the same articles for free (or sometimes at a prenium). Formatting and graphics is usually stripped out, but the content is till there. Today I’d like to promote two such websites: bnet.com and allbusiness.com.
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2009/04/10  How Nature works is a fascinating book. I first heard of the late Per Bak and his sandpile theories when I some time back read an article by Koubatis and Schönberger (1995) on Risk management of complex critical systems. At that time I had just discovered the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure, and I was perusing their archives for articles I could use in my research on transportation vulnerability. Koubatis and Schönberger actually consider Per Bak’s “sandpile” model to be as relevant to business and society as Adam Smith’s legendary “invisible hand”. When I read that I was simply compelled to investigate more.
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2009/02/28  This is a compilation of more than 250 journal articles, white papers, research reports, books and conference presentations on supply chain risk and related subjects. The list is updated regularly, and hopefully it can be of help to other researchers and scholars, and one new literature review is added every week.
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2008/07/10  Is there something like the right research design for supply chain studies? I believe there is, and in Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management it is more than likely that you too will find a research approach that will suit your needs. Every budding supply chain researcher (and senior researcher for that matter) should read this book. Within the 36 chapters 70 authors bring together a rich selection of theoretical and practical examples of how research methodologies are applied in supply chain management.
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