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2009/06/09 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

What kind of Supplychainist are you?

With an ever-increasing number of companies outsourcing all non-core activities and  manufacturing their products in faraway countries,  Supply Chain Management (SCM) has evolved into both a professional and an academic field that is growing, spreading and developing offshoots in all directions. But what is SCM really, is it just a new name for logistics or is it possible to distinguish certain perspectives? In Logistics versus Supply Chain Management: An International Survey, Paul D. Larson & Arni Halldorson (2004) set out to investigate how the experts themselves classify their own realms.

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2008/11/05 OTHER SITES and BLOGS No reactions yet

Conferences in Transportation and Supply Chain

Looking for a list of conferences in supply chain and transportation-related topics? By accident, I came across  this list on a website called interorganisational.org. Not only does it feature calls for papers for conferences, but also calls for papers for academic journals, complete with abstract or paper submission deadline. This makes it easy to select which one is next in line. The list is continuously updated, and although the website owner claims that they only “occasionally” upload call-for-papers, course announcements, open positions, etc., as far as I can see, the list is very complete.

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2008/07/03 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS No reactions yet

Is there a distinctive Nordic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain Management?

8763002183sm_3Is there such a thing as a typically Nordic way of thinking within the field of Supply Chain Management? A new book is out, trying to answer that question: Northern Lights in Logistics & Supply Chain Management by Jan Stentoft Arlbjørn, Árni Halldórsson, Marianne Jahre, Karen Spens (eds.).  I came across this book while doing some Google searches on supply chain risk, ending up on www.interorgainisational.org, a site run by two university professors, Gyöngyi Kovács and Arni Halldorsson, and dedicated to showing a different side of logistics than the pure business and money focus it usually has. Halldorson is also a contributor to the book.

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