Stephen Dunne, Stefano Harney and Martin Parker are “speaking out” on the irresponsibility of management (incl. ops mgmt, SCM, even critical management) intellectuals. Their analysis shows incredibly low figures for any topics related to responsibility in a variety of management journals. The point was well taken by Andrew and Margaret Taylor who called for more such research to be submitted to e.g. IJOPM. The ball has been passed on…
Gyöngyi
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Finally, supply chain risk management is no more academic utopia or a mere consultant buzz word but is discussed in the boardroom. According to a survey by the Economics’ Intelligence Unit (which refers back to the Ericsson vs. Nokia comparison case as discussed years earlier by Norrman and Jansson), supply chain resilience can indeed be linked to profitability – especially during economic downturns. But also otherwise, the (perceived) magnitude of many supply chain disruptions is on the rise.
Gyöngyi
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Following up on Christian Grönroos’ clips on marketing of services, here is a series of interviews on “service dominant logic” (S-D-Logic) with Robert Lusch and Steve Vargo. To live with a quote from them, “we are all here to serve one another” after all. Yet, are “tangible goods really distribution vehicles” to provide a service?
Gyöngyi
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It is the technical support of supply chain integration, sometimes even called “SCM software”, the ERP system – but what do we know about it’s development? It has gone through quite a jump from inventory management and a subsequent upstream focus towards now expanding also downstreams. But there are certainly more elements in the history of its development that are of interest. If you know of any interesting such events, add it to the ERP wiki timeline. Funnily enough, if you search for SCM software you will end up with links to the same companies the timeline mentions – apart from the odd site where SCM stands for “software configuration management“, nothing to do with supply chains.
Gyöngyi
PS. For more info on the ERP timeline contact Houston Neal.
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Those who are interested in the development of research in Operations Management will find this paper by Andrew Taylor and Margaret Taylor (editors of IJOPM* during the last 5 years) relevant to their collection:
Operations management research: contemporary themes, trends and potential future directions
The paper identifies main research themes, use of research methods, and reasons for rejecting manuscripts.
The analysis of 310 articles published in IJOPM from 2004-2009 identified these as amongst the top-five themes in the journal:
1. Supply Chain Management
2. Operations Strategy
3. Performance Management
4. Service Operations
5. Lean Methods
What is in particular of interest in this paper is the insight the editors provide into the publication process; main reasons for rejection of manuscripts are presented and discussed. In addition, the paper provides overview on the use of various research methods, which indicates a relative balanced use of surveys and the case study method.
Árni
*International Journal of Operations & Production Management
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Where is the impact of benchmarking exercises? The bestLog project group probably wondered the same when leaving over their results (and from Feb2010, their website) to the European Logistics Association. ELAbestlog includes SCM case studies, reports on logistics education in Europe and an education directory, and at least on the old bestLog website, one could put in their own (European) logistics events. Let’s hope ELA makes the best of it – and updates this website at least a bit more frequently.
Gyöngyi
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No, this is not a joke. Swedish doctoral students go through a “pie-throwing seminar” towards the end of their doctoral process. (We in Finland call it a “manuscript seminar” or a “mock defence“, which is not half as funny as throwing pies.) But the idea is the same, getting critical comments on a thesis just before the final work shall be submitted. The more critical the better, as this is still the time when changes can be made. And who wouldn’t prefer to receive constructive criticism instead of a destructive verdict in the end?
Gyöngyi
BTW, there is even a book on focusing on your viva from the beginning, Trafford and Leshem’s (2008) “stepping stones”, which tackles the same idea from a UK perspective.
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CSCMP calls for teaching cases – and awards them, too. Full cases as well as mini cases are of interest, importantly, along with teaching notes. The deadline for these “academic cases” is Feb 1, 2010
Gyöngyi
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Considering that the term and the discipline of logistics stems from the military, it is surprising how little there is published outside of doctrines on the topic of defence logistics. This CFP intends to do sthg about it, calling for academic articles on “Developments in defence logistics“. Deadline Oct 31, 2010.
Gyöngyi
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What do SCM conference themes reflect? Current research topics, global concerns, the organising committee’s own research focus? Some time ago, Árni wondered whether conference themes mattered. At that time, as again in 2010, NOFOMA had no theme (neither does RIRL). Only EUROMA 2010 is “managing operations in service economies”. Otherwise, a look into future conferences shows a concern for the future.
Such as: CSCMP (Europe) is “preparing for the future” and “getting your supply chain ready for tomorrow”, while ISL wants to “configure next generation supply chains”, the German Heinz Nixdorf Symposium is “changing paradigms” for “advanced manufacturing and sustainable logistics”, POMS‘ is concerned with “operations in emerging economies” and IPSERA considers “supply management” to be a “missing link in strategic management”… A bit like the 80s movie trilogy, back to the future 
Gyöngyi
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