Category Archives: Conferences

I’m a box… and make the world go round

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

There were some nice videos shown at the last CSCMP conference incl. a singing box that is an integrated part that makes the world go round :-) Here’s the link to I’m a box. And to some other videos as well.

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Now: DSI

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

DSI 2011 comes with insights to the state of the art research in logistics, humanitarian logistics (even as a keynote), green SCM, and sports stats – just how to share the blame, and more interestingly, how to attribute performance shares. There is a nice young talent showcase track, though there seems to be a lack of young talent overall, at least if one considers the relatively few applicants to lots of jobs that were interviewed for at the conference.

A take-away is a call for multi-disciplinary and multi-method research, though multi-disciplinary stands for the good old OR+marketing, and multi-method for anything empirical that feeds into a model. Funny we are still trying to bridge the gaps between all sorts of different streams that feed into SCM research, seemingly not successfully.

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Posted in Conferences, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

Logistics luminaries

Posted on October 5, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Jim Stock is on to a great project on the history of logistics, interviewing its luminaries. Here’s a link to the videos and their transcripts – though with the note that they cannot be downloaded. There are quite a few memorable ones among them, not the least because of getting a last glimpse of some, e.g. Tom Mentzer and Don Bowersox.

CSCMP now honoured Don Bowersox with naming its doctoral workshop after him (and what a workshop it was!). But the question remains, who is going to interview Jim Stock?

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At your service

Posted on June 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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.

Gyöngyi at your service

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Posted in Call for papers, Conferences, Service management

Now: CR3

Posted on April 8, 2011 by | Leave a comment

aka corporate responsibility to the cube. The conference started well with a keynote that focused on supply chain management when problematising the multinational corporation as a political actor. The SCM stream then assembled an interesting combination of very diverse types of sustainable SCM research, tackling anything from the organic banana supply chain to joint intra-sectoral approaches in auditing suppliers to corruption in development supply chains. Quite in accord with the theme of the conference (the power of responsibility) a common conclusion of the SCM stream can be summarised as “documents and standards are nice, but control of actions is needed instead”. Or, as the insight of a paper on forest certification exemplified, no forestry company has yet lost any customer because of not having ratified the certificate…

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Posted in Conferences, Corporate Social Responsibility, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability

Now: EU/ME 2011

Posted on February 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

A bit more focused on methods than applications, the EU/ME workshop is now taking place in Vienna. There are some interesting papers, e.g. for home care of the elderly in different countries, assisting in the scheduling as well as routing of nurses, or some models that would improve the accessibility of road networks – but the focus is indeed on metaheuristics and on whether different heuristics are good enough but quicker to calculate…

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Now: MILLOG Symposium 2010

Posted on December 2, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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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LRN 2010 – from resilient to adaptive

Posted on September 13, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Post-LRN 2010 I have to say that I subscribe to Tony Whiteing‘s strategy to raise the level of the conference. To be accepted, papers needed to have solid empirical evidence and/or a good outlook to the future. The latter was particularly interesting as both young and really experienced scholars gave their view on “potential future paradigms”. And the emerging theme was “adaptive logistics” – from the perspective of flexibility (Martin Christopher and Matthias Holweg) as well as climate change (Alan McKinnon following up on a discussion in Brussels, or see e.g. UNDP’s take on that).

Gyöngyi

PS. Fredrik Nilsson may have been showing the way with using a complex adaptive systems view on logistics management…

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Call for papers

Posted on August 2, 2010 by | 2 Comments

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

CFP

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Posted in Academic journals, Call for papers, Conferences, Socks and sandals

Who reads conference papers?

Posted on June 11, 2010 by | Leave a comment

That’s the question Herbert Rotfeld asked in an essay on the ACR list. The point he makes is for ACR, AMA etc. but could well be made for say, Informs or CSCMP – that conferences that only publish abstracts lead to references to papers nobody read, and most importantly, nobody has access to. And it gets worse: track chairs don’t have the papers either, authors have stopped handing them out at their presentations, and if you ask for one, you probably get the answer that the paper is under review for a journal and can thus not be distributed. Hm.

The problem is of course that conference proceedings count as publications. As to say, there is a copyright issue with journals, and an issue of (self-)plagiarising. Plus it compromises the blind review process of a journal if everyone knows the paper and the author. Herbert’s own suggestion is to include the discussion at the conference as well as the presentation slides in the proceedings. But what about having papers in proceedings and then revising them substantially before submitting to a journal? The discussion should actually lead to something after all.

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