Companies face a variety of risks resulting from cost reduction strategies, rationalization measures, global sourcing, and outsourcing activities. Due to the large number of actors involved, extremely close ties emerge, which significantly increase supply chains’ vulnerability to disruptions -...

Verena Brenner provides a systematic approach for the investigation, measurement, and management of supply chain disruptions. A terminological, theoretical and practical basis for the analysis of supply chain disruptions is developed to create a consistent and transferable research framework. To...

Tobias Ackermann provides a comprehensive conceptualization of perceived IT security risk in the Cloud Computing context that is based on six distinct risk dimensions grounded on a structured literature review, Q-sorting, expert interviews, and analysis of data collected from 356 organizations....

The Context of Global Supply Chain Security -- Maritime Piracy and the Supply Chain -- Political Risk to the Supply Chain -- Corporate Security: A Supply Chain Program -- An Examination of Global Supply Chain Security through the Lens of Grid and Group Theory -- Aviation Security and...

Part A: Safety by Design -- Chapter 1: Prevention through design: A concept note for preventing accidents/injuries to construction workers -- Chapter 2: Virtual prototype simulator for EOT crane -- Chapter 3: Reduction of coal dust exposure using water mist system -- Chapter 4: A study on...

This book deals with stochastic combinatorial optimization problems in supply chain disruption management, with a particular focus on management of disrupted flows in customer-driven supply chains. The problems are modeled using a scenario based stochastic mixed integer programming to address...

Konzeptionelle Grundlagen und Status Quo des SCEM -- Supply Chain Event Management als strategisches Unternehmensführungskonzept -- Diffusion und Anwendung von Technologien des Ubiquitous Computing zur Selbststeuerung im Supply Chain Event Management -- Supply Chain Event Management in der...