Supply chain design for carbon trading
–Perhaps a speculative statement, but not for long.
As companies can buy emission credits on auctions and marketplaces (horisontal structure of carbon trading), why not include them in trading with suppliers and customers (vertical structure of carbon trading)?
More thoughts on this very soon.
Árni
Terminal 5 might be the most renown example of a baggage handling debacle, discussed in many teaching cases and case studies (and leading to BAA’s struggle to restore its reputation), but another case of baggage handling was so bad it lent to a song! Here comes “United Breaks Guitars“. The fun part is, given all the YouTube downloads, the musician in the end thanked United for the incident, but refused their final offers as too little too late.
Gyöngyi
Posted in Socks and sandals
… is changing! Looking at shifts in citations and co-citations in three decades, Alan Pilkington and Jack Meredith (2009 – see the article here) drew some interesting maps of the focal shifts of operations management research (our “knowledge structure”) – as well as the factor structure of clustered co-citations of articles around different themes. And the conclusion is, manufacturing strategy continues to rule. Probably more interestingly, you need to write textbooks (not articles) if you want to leave your mark…
Gyöngyi
PS. The reference is of course NOT to the author of “American Serengeti” nor the model technician of the “Lord of the Rings” movies 
