Category Archives: Call for papers

Gerontology meets transportation research

…at a conference on “aging, mobility and quality of life“. Couldn’t be more timely with all the discussion about ageing populations in quite some parts of the Northern hemisphere. Here in Finland the debate goes as far as to question our standard of living in the future due to population ageing. Somewhat related to such population trends (and the mainstream cluster discourse), Nikodemus Solitander just questioned why Finland would want to attract more knowledge workers given its overeducated population where one cannot find enough plumbers, construction workers, bus drivers and cashiers…

But back to transportation research, the conference reminds of some of the gender projects in transportation, e.g. of the World Bank, the European Commission, UNEP, ADB, IFRTD and alls sorts of other lovely acronym organisations. There is even a community of practice for people working in this field. Not as if these problems would have been resolved – far from it! – but it is time to take on also age discrimination as well as different mobility patterns on the research agenda.

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At your service

There are so many service management-related conferences, workshops, even PhD positions nowadays that it even led to alliances. Here is a newsletter with all sorts of news, links and calls for papers.

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First issue of JHLSCM now online

Following up on its announcement, the first number of the brand new Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management is finally out – follow this link!

And the next one’s already in the publication process :-)

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PS edited 3.6. – the journal has a free access period right now, check it out!

Now: MILLOG Symposium 2010

There are some excellent papers here at the 2010 MILLOG symposium. “Hot” topics seem to be PPPs between defence organisations and logistics service providers, changing business models in the military, and logistics strategy (and its implementation). Right on time to raise these topics before the deadline of the IJPDLM special issue on “Developments in defence logistics” (deadline Jan 31, 2011). And who knew the “real” meaning of a symposium?

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Journal of the week: IJPDLM

…meaning access to the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management is free for this week through this link. The choice of the journal is not surprising considering the news about its impact factor (to be announced for the first time in the 2011 round of the Thomson Reuters SSCI).

News for service (operations) junkies at the same time: IJPDLM calls for papers on “Applying service-dominant logic to physical distribution and logistics management“. The guest editors include the fathers of S-D logic :-) Deadline Nov 30, 2011

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Call for papers

One may think there is a CFP for about every problem out there – well, because there is :-)

CFP

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New journal: Journal of Supply Chain and Customer Relationship Management

Relationships make a supply chain, so now they are at the focus of a new journal: the Journal of Supply Chain and Customer Relationship Management. To quote from its scope,  it includes “supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) and supplier relationship management (SRM)”. The journal is open for submissions now.

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Corporate responsibility to the cube – CR3

A number of universities came together to organise a conference on corporate responsibility that would attract scholars from a variety of disciplines. Not surprisingly, it also has a supply chain management stream. Check out the CR3 conference here – and come to Helsinki in April 2011 (Apr 8-9). Abstract deadline Nov 15, 2010

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Military logistics research

Worthwhile to add to the list of academic logistics conferences are the ones on military logistics. The next military logistics symposium will be arranged in Helsinki in Dec 2010 – see the official website and call for papers here. A special issue on defence logistics is following soon after. Deadlines: Aug 27, 2010 for the conference, and Jan 31, 2011 for the special issue.

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PS Well noted at Sotatieteiden päivät.

Green and healthy supply chains

Trendspotting on our CFP wall points again at two current focal themes of research, “green supply chain management” and “health care supply chains”. Here’s a more focused assembly of the CFPs.

Green supply chain management: Mar 31 is the deadline of two calls for papers on this topic (sustainability with a call on “Supply chain sustainability“ and Transportation Research Part E on “Green supply chain management“). It then follows with a CFP for the African Journal of Economic and Management Studies on “CSR in Africa“ (Jun 30), and another for the Journal of Cleaner Production on “Sustainability management beyond corporate boundaries“ (Aug 31). The International Journal of Production Economics has two at almost the same time, “Green manufacturing and distribution in the fashion and apparel industries“ (Sep 30) and “Sustainable development of manufacturing and services“ (Oct 30). Timely enough, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management dedicated its first two numbers of 2010 to sustainability in supply chains. Now even marketing journals are waking up for the topic, see e.g. the Journal of Marketing Management CFP on “Re-visiting contemporary issues in green/ethical marketing” (due in a year, Mar 1, 2011).

Health care operations and SCM: Apr 6 is the first deadline to note here, with a CFP for the European Journal of Operational Research on “Operations research in health care“. One can also note the Annals of Operations Research calls for papers on “OR in the public sector and NPO“ (Apr 30), OR Spectrum’s CFP on “Healthcare operations management“ (Jun 30), as well as CFPs for Decision Support Systems on “Modeling for better healthcare“ (Sep 15), Computers and Operations Research on “Operations research for health care delivery“ (Dec 2010). It is mostly OR and OM research that is called for in health care right now.

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