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
Categories: Academic journals · Academic publications · Call for papers · Corporate Social Responsibility · Operations management · Supply Chain Management · Sustainability
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
Categories: Popular science · Supply Chain Management
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
Categories: Popular science · Service management
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.
Categories: Socks and sandals · Supply Chain Management
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
Categories: Academic journals · Academic publications · Journal ranking · Operations management · Research & Methodology · Research methods · Theory
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
Categories: Education & Management Development · European Management · Logistics · Supply Chain Management
