We present the Rutgers Business School (RBS) General Impact Index for business journals. The RBS General Impact Index is intended to measure the extent to which business journals contribute to the knowledge base of the business world and to the general public. The index has two dimensions: the...

We present the 2020 Rutgers Business School (RBS) General Impact Index for academic business journals. The RBS General Impact Index is derived from the Classroom Impact Index and the Popular Impact Index. The Classroom Impact Index score indicates the contribution of a business journal to...

A great deal of research on innovation implicitly relies upon the network in which a firm is embedded to explain its innovative capabilities. Interestingly however, most research examines innovation at the firm level, rather than at the network level. Thus, there is a significant gap in the...

This paper develops a network theory based framework of manufacturing joint venture formations and provides an empirical test in the context of the automotive industry. Hypotheses are developed regarding the implications of the network structure for a firm’s partner selection in manufacturing...

We present the 2018 Rutgers Business School (RBS) General Impact Index for business journals. The index has been updated using journal citation data from the period of January 2017 to September 2018. The RBS General Impact Index consists of two components: the Classroom Impact Index and the...

We interviewed Evren Ozkaya, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Supply Chain Wizard, LLC. As a supply chain management consultant, he told us about the key turning points in his career and the latest developments in the supply chain management domain and in the pharmaceutical industry. He...

"Every industry has faced the tidal wave of "digital" that has either re-shaped or dramatically altered their modus operandi. Supporting technologies in the management information systems arena have given rise to increased end to end visibility, real time access to information, and tightly...

"What are the cyber vulnerabilities in supply chain management? How can firms manage cyber risk and cyber security challenges in procurement, manufacturing, and logistics? Today it is clear that supply chain is often the core area of a firm's cyber security vulnerability, and its first line of...

There are numerous examples of supply chain disruptions that have occurred which have had devastating impacts not only on a single firm but also on various other firms in the supply network. We utilize a Bayesian Network (BN) approach and develop a model of risk propagation in a supply network....