One of the lovely questions in SCM is where the term originates from – but has anyone who quoted Oliver and Webber from 1982 actually read (or got hold of) the original article? If you search for it, even the references in references seem to vary, with quoting different years, or it being a journal article, or a book etc.
Plagiarism in our field takes funny forms and is more often than not very easy to detect. Internet references are the worst. When CLM was still CLM, the wrong URL would take you to the Christian Leadership Ministries. Bowersox has forever been misquoted for his definition of logistics (with the wrong year). Writing about abduction, the same goes for Peirce. One person starts off the wrong quote or the wrong interpretation, which for decades goes unchecked – and shows way too easily that authors didn’t bother to look up the original. (And yes, this also goes for quoting Wikipedia…)
For less obvious cases there is even software checking upon plagiarism. Or, as in Austria, a third party looking into dissertations etc. (This was a decision of the science fund FWF and the Austrian rector’s conference ÖRK after even some ministers were involved in plagiarising scandals; luckily not in SCM. Politicians all over the world have been implicated in plagiarism, with different results for their careers.)
As we saw in Paul Larson‘s “10 most important reasons for your article being rejected” at Nofoma 2007, one of the major issues in SCM is self-plagiarism. We’ve seen your text before. Rumour has it, journal databases such as Emerald have reacted with total bans for certain authors in such cases. Not to speak of intellectual property rights, why would anyone want to commit academic suicide?
Gyöngyi
PS. But if anyone actually has a copy of the original Oliver and Webber article, please let me know 
