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2010/10/26 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Control or laissez-faire?

choi-complex-adaptive-systems

Supply networks are constantly changing. Perhaps not controlling, but letting things happen and letting supply networks emerge is the best management strategy? [ ... ]

2010/05/03 my PUBLIC PRESENCE

Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprises

jan-husdal-book-chapter

Conceptual in its approach and drawing from other areas of research, this chapter introduces four distinct groups of VENS, namely Constrained, Directed, Limited and Free VEN, and concludes that VEN risk management can and should learn from supply chain risk management. [ ... ]

2010/03/17 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Published. Not perished.

managing-risks-virtual-enterprise-networks

Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my chapter in it. This book links Virtual Enterprise Networks with Supply Chain Management and Risk Management in a cross-disciplinary fashion. [ ... ]

2010/01/09 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

The Definition of Agility

agile-enterprise-goranson

This blog has previously reported profusely on flexibility, let alone resilience and robustness, but has severely neglected agility. With this post, I intend to take a closer look at what it means to be agile. This is the only reference I have found that properly differentiates between agility and flexibility and what being agile actually entails. [ ... ]

2009/11/03 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks

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What fascinates me with this paper are (1) the parameters defining supply chain flexibility: Transparency, Simplicity, Responsiveness/Agility and Security/Reliability, and (2) flexibility potentials: Structural, Technological and Human flexibility potentials. [ ... ]

2009/07/21 my PUBLIC PRESENCE

What are risks in virtual enterprise networks?

risks-in-virtual-enterprises

Conceptual in its approach and drawing from other areas of research, this paper introduces four distinct groups of VENS, namely Constrained, Directed, Limited and Free VEN, and concludes that VEN risk management can and should learn from supply chain risk management. [ ... ]

2009/05/11 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain

choi-kim-structural-embeddedness

We need to consider how a supplier is embedded in its own networks if we are to truly gauge its performance. [ ... ]

2009/04/22 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Book Review: Virtual Teams

nemiro-virtual-teams

What is comes down to is that virtual teams have six challenges: Distance, Time, Technology, Culture, Trust and Leadership. Jill Nemiro and her co-editors have put together a 764-page monster of a book. It’s not a handbook, it’s a handbrick. [ ... ]

2009/04/04 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Book Review: Cooperative Strategy

child-faulkner-cooperative-strategy

This book describes six reasons why firms seek to establish cooperative networks: 1) Certainty 2) Flexibility 3) Capacity 4) Speed 5) Skills and Competence 6) Intelligence. Five degrees of networks can be discerned: 1) Equal-partner network 2) Unilateral agreements 3) Dominated network 4) Virtual corporation, and 5) Strategic alliance. [ ... ]

2009/03/31 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks

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I must admit that I knew very little, if anything, about Virtual Enterprise Networks when I started this adventure some months back, but I can now say that I am fascinated by the concept [ ... ]

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