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a gateway to journal articles, research papers, books, websites and other resources in Supply Chain Risk and Business Continuity, personally collected and in-depth reviewed by Jan Husdal, a researcher, consultant, PhD-student and academic in spe from Norway.
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- January 4, 2010
- 11:42 PM
- 109 views
SME: A supply chain risk?
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Does having Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in your supply chain constitute an increased exposure to supply chain risk? Particularly if these SMEs occupy business-critical positions in the supply chain?... Read more »
Finch, P. (2004) Supply chain risk management. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 9(2), 183-196. DOI: 10.1108/13598540410527079
- January 3, 2010
- 06:01 PM
- 106 views
Supply Chain Risk Literature: a complete review
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Finally, here it is, the complete review of supply chain risk. At least by the looks of it. Supply chain risks: a review and typology, is a 2009 article by two scholars from the University of Kentucky, Shashank Rao and Thomas J Goldsby, who review, synthesize and typify some 160 or so articles in supply [ ... ]... Read more »
Rao, S., & Goldsby, T. (2009) Supply chain risks: a review and typology. The International Journal of Logistics Management, 20(1), 97-123. DOI: 10.1108/09574090910954864
- December 15, 2009
- 12:47 AM
- 133 views
Security issues in maritime supply chains
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain and today’s article reflects on security in maritime supply chains and suggests that the complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply chains creates vulnerabilities that extends beyond the immediate shipping line.
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BARNES, P., & OLORUNTOBA, R. (2005) Assurance of security in maritime supply chains: Conceptual issues of vulnerability and crisis management. Journal of International Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2005.09.008
- December 15, 2009
- 12:42 AM
- 129 views
Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain. Today’s article reflects on security in maritime supply chains: Assurance of security in maritime supply chains: Conceptual issues of vulnerability and crisis management by Paul Barnes and Richard Oloruntoba from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, suggests that the complex interaction of ports, [ ... ]... Read more »
BARNES, P., & OLORUNTOBA, R. (2005) Assurance of security in maritime supply chains: Conceptual issues of vulnerability and crisis management. Journal of International Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2005.09.008
- December 7, 2009
- 06:03 PM
- 159 views
Risk: stochastically speaking
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
This is not your typical journal article on supply chain risk. It starts out as an easy read, reviewing the literature and discussing risk sources and risk consequences, but ends in an inconclusive and unsurmountable stack of equations not suited for the stochastically uninitiated researcher like me. Nonetheless, the arguments leading up to the equations are definitely worth reflecting on. In particular, the difference between external risks and risk externalities are worth noting.
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Tapiero, C., & Grando, A. (2008) Risks and supply chains. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 9(3), 199. DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2008.019740
- December 6, 2009
- 06:01 PM
- 186 views
Supply Chain Confidence
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Did a 2001 white paper turn into a 2004 academic journal article just like that? In Mitigating supply chain risk through improved confidence, Martin Christopher and Hau Lee explore the impact confidence has on supply chain performance. Interestingly this 2004 article also appears as a 2001 white paper on supply chain confidence published by the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum. Is the journal article just a re-published white paper?... Read more »
Christopher, M., & Lee, H. (2004) Mitigating supply chain risk through improved confidence. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 34(5), 388-396. DOI: 10.1108/09600030410545436
- December 3, 2009
- 06:01 PM
- 150 views
Risk & Vulnerability
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Written 12 years ago, but still holds true. Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex systems of webs and networks and the system thinking that already pervaded Einarsson and Rausand (1997) An Approach to Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Industrial Systems is today still applicable to toady's supply chains. In fact, there is little difference between vulnerability in supply chains and vulnerability in complex industrial systems.... Read more »
Einarsson, S., & Rausand, M. (1998) An Approach to Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Industrial Systems. Risk Analysis, 18(5), 535-546. DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00367.x
- December 2, 2009
- 06:02 PM
- 151 views
Risky ramblings
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Why such a title? The abstract of this article promises to highlight six areas of supply chain risk and discuss these at length, showing how they are endemic to the extended enterprise, and develop a typology for categorizing them. And indeed, a lengthy discussion it is, hence the “rambling”. That said, it is a lengthy discussion not to be missed.
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Spekman, R., & Davis, E. (2004) Risky business: expanding the discussion on risk and the extended enterprise. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 34(5), 414-433. DOI: 10.1108/09600030410545454
- November 30, 2009
- 07:01 PM
- 159 views
Perspectives on risk management in supply chains
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Today’s article is actually not an article on it’s own, but an editorial to a special 2009 issue of the Journal of Operations Management, dedicated to supply chain risk. Although Perspectives on risk management in supply chains by Ram Narasimhan, and Srinivas Talluri aims mostly at presenting the articles in this special issue, they also [ ... ]... Read more »
Narasimhan, R., & Talluri, S. (2009) Perspectives on risk management in supply chains. Journal of Operations Management, 27(2), 114-118. DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2009.02.001
- November 27, 2009
- 02:49 AM
- 217 views
Road Vulnerability
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Today we are going back in time, to one of the seminal articles in road vulnerability that has laid the groundwork for many researchers, and has been cited by not few authors since it was first published. It is a conceptual paper that provides the basis for why road vulnerability needs to be a more important issue than it usually is considered as. It is also the first paper to develop a framework for measuring road vulnerability.... Read more »
Berdica, K. (2002) An introduction to road vulnerability: what has been done, is done and should be done. Transport Policy, 9(2), 117-127. DOI: 10.1016/S0967-070X(02)00011-2
- November 23, 2009
- 11:43 PM
- 199 views
Emergency Logistics
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian supply chains? Well, perhaps they could work, but in most cases they won’t, simply because there is a profound lack of technical logistics knowledge in many aid agencies and even more so, very few experienced logisticians working in the Humanitarian Aid community. This scarcity of qualified logistics know-how impacts directly on the functioning of the relief effort.
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Beresford, A., & Pettit, S. (2009) Emergency logistics and risk mitigation in Thailand following the Asian tsunami. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 13(1), 7. DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2009.026387
- November 17, 2009
- 02:29 PM
- 191 views
Mitigating supply chain disruptions is easy
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorrow and while looking for some YouTube videos on supply chain risk to spice up my 3-hour presentation, I came across a short snippet featuring Christopher Tang from UCLA, who was talking about three strategies for building a [ ... ]... Read more »
Tang, C. (2006) Robust strategies for mitigating supply chain disruptions. International Journal of Logistics, 9(1), 33-45. DOI: 10.1080/13675560500405584
- November 15, 2009
- 06:01 PM
- 218 views
Supply, Demand, and…”Miscellanous” Risk?
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
The other day I was proofreading the paper of a colleague when this paper in the reference list caught my attention. Not familiar with retail supply chains, here was a chance to learn something new…so I thought, and so I did. However, I’m not sure I follow the authors in their risk categorization: supply, demand and “miscellanous” risk? What is this “miscellanous” risk?
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Oke, A., & Gopalakrishnan, M. (2009) Managing disruptions in supply chains: A case study of a retail supply chain. International Journal of Production Economics, 118(1), 168-174. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.08.045
- November 6, 2009
- 04:42 AM
- 215 views
No Beer Today
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
I’m not in the habit of making Friday a day for funny blog posts, but today’s article highlights a very interesting issue: Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a supply chain distribution. You could even say that beer distribution is part of our critical infrastructure.
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McKinnon, Alan. (2006) Life Without Trucks: The Impact of a Temporary Disruption of Road Freight Transport on a National Economy. Journal of Business Logistics, 27(2), 227-250. info:other/1199682841
- November 4, 2009
- 03:38 AM
- 224 views
Graph Theory to the rescue
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? In this paper, graph theory is used to model interactions between supply chain vulnerability drivers and to calculate a supply chain vulnerability index. That is a novel approach, but does it work?... Read more »
Wagner, S., & Neshat, N. (2009) Assessing the vulnerability of supply chains using graph theory. International Journal of Production Economics. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.10.007
- November 3, 2009
- 03:57 AM
- 206 views
Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
A supply chain as a virtual enterprise network. That is the underlying reasoning in the 2009 paper How to improve supply chain flexibility using strategic supply chain networks by Herwig Winkler. Virtual Enterprise Networks do not play a major role in this paper, but what fascinates me 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.
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Winkler, H. (2008) How to improve supply chain flexibility using strategic supply chain networks. Logistics Research, 1(1), 15-25. DOI: 10.1007/s12159-008-0001-6
- October 28, 2009
- 01:42 AM
- 219 views
Supply chain risk in turbulent environments
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
An intriguing title caught my eye today: Supply chain risk in turbulent environments. This is the first time I have encountered the term turbulent environments in my research on supply chain risk, so I decided to take a closer look at it. What is it really…simply old wine in new bottles or something profoundly new?... Read more »
Trkman, P., & McCormack, K. (2009) Supply chain risk in turbulent environments—A conceptual model for managing supply chain network risk. International Journal of Production Economics, 119(2), 247-258. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.03.002
- October 25, 2009
- 07:01 PM
- 247 views
A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three authors, published the same year, in two different journals, with almost the same title? A conceptual model of supply chain flexibility and Supply Chain Flexibility: Building a New Model by Rhonda R Lummus, Leslie K Duclos and Robert J Vokurka [ ... ]... Read more »
Duclos, L., Vokurka, R., & Lummus, R. (2003) A conceptual model of supply chain flexibility. Industrial Management , 103(6), 446-456. DOI: 10.1108/02635570310480015
Lummus, Rhonda R., Duclos, Leslie K., & Vokurka, Robert J. (2003) Supply Chain Flexibility: Building a New Model. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 4(4), 1-13. info:other/
- October 18, 2009
- 06:40 PM
- 307 views
Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in transportation vulnerability, and what would later become the focus area of my research: the cost of transportation vulnerability and the benefit of transportation reliability: Dalziell, E & Nicholson, A (2000) Risk and Impact of Natural Hazards on a Road Network. As far as I am aware of, the Dalziell-Nicholson paper is one of the first attempts to calculate a cost benefit ratio for road closure versus mitigation investments, where the road is seen as a transportation lifeline, and thus a critical infrastructure for the communities that it links.... Read more »
Dalziell, E., & Nicholson, A. (2001) Risk and Impact of Natural Hazards on a Road Network. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 127(2), 159. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2001)127:2(159)
- October 5, 2009
- 06:37 AM
- 279 views
Transportation Hazards
by Jan Husdal in Supply Chain Risk Research & Literature Review
This is an updated and extended review of the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor) which I have reviewed in a previous post 4 years ago: Book Review: The Handbook of Tranportation Engineering. While rummaging through references for a journal article I came across an old copy of the chapter on Transportation Engineering [ ... ]... Read more »
Kaplan, S., & Garrick, B. (1981) On The Quantitative Definition of Risk. Risk Analysis, 1(1), 11-27. DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1981.tb01350.x
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