Submitted by Daniel Dumke on Fri, 2011-06-03 17:42
This week went by very fast and it actually did since I am using my extended weekend on a biking trip on the Baltic Coast Cycle Route. I am a little bit hampered having only my iPad with me, so the news are shorter than ever. Nevertheless, this was week 22 in 2011.
This is the sixth contribution to my series on doctoral dissertations on supply chain risk management. An immense effort and dedication is spent on these works only to find the results hidden in the libraries. So the goal is raise interest in the research of my peers.
For many years sustainability risks have been largely neglected. Reputational damages caused by incidents like the Brent Spar platform can reach tens of millions of dollars. But in a supply chain context companies are not only held responsible for their own actions but also for the actions of their suppliers.
In their 2010 paper Foerstl et al. analyze supplier sustainability risk and develop and test a framework for its mitigation.
