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Book SynopsisFocusing on the specific challenges of research design and exploring the opportunities of conducting research in humanitarian logistics and supply chain management, this handbook is a significant contribution to future research.
Table of ContentsChapter 1.1. Social Network Analysis in the context of Humanitarian Logistics; Natalie Simpson, Zhasmina Tacheva and Ta-Wei (Daniel) Kao.- Chapter 1.2. Deploying Collaborative Management Research Approaches in Humanitarian Supply Chains: An Overview and Research Agenda; Yasmine Sabri.- Chapter 1.3. Future Research in Humanitarian Operations: A Behavioral Operations Perspective; Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Jaime Andrés Castañeda, and Sebastián Villa.- Chapter 2.1. Challenges and opportunities for humanitarian researchers: Dreadful biases and heavenly combinations of mixed methods; Pervaiz Akhtar.- Chapter 2.2. So much of research is context: fieldwork experience in humanitarian logistics; Minchul Sohn.- Chapter 2.3. Conducting in-depth case studies in humanitarian logistics:The case of MSF; Diego Vega.- Chapter 2.4. The Application of the Case Study Methodology: Resilience in Domestic Food Supply Chains during Disaster Relief Efforts in South Asia; Mark Wilson, Muhammad Umar, Jeff Heyl.- Chapter 3.1. An Understanding of Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Supply Chain Integration (HDR-SCI); Jihee Kim, Stephen Pettit, Irina Harris, Anthony K. C. Beresford.- Chapter 3.2. An Empirical investigation of Swift Trust in Humanitarian Logistics Operations; Q. Lu, M. Goh, R. de Souza.- Chapter 3.3. Drivers of Coordination in Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains; Rameshwar Dubey, Nezih Altay.- Chapter 3.4. Agility learning opportunities in cross-sector collaboration. An exploratory study; Alessandra Cozzolino, Ewa Wankowicz, Enrico Massaroni.- Chapter 4.1. How flexibility accommodates demand variability in a service chain: insights from exploratory interviews in the refugee supply chain; Kirstin Scholten, Carolien de Blok, Robbin-Jan Haar.- Chapter 4.2. Developing Individual Competencies for Humanitarian Logistics; Graham Heaslip, Peter Tatham, Alain Vaillancourt.- Chapter 4.3. Governance of service triads in humanitarian logistics; Graham Heaslip, Gyöngyi Kovács.- Chapter 4.4. Multimodal Logistics in Disaster Relief; Syed Tariq, Muhammad Naiman Jalil, Muhammad Adeel Zaffar.- Chapter 5.1. Structuring Humanitarian Supply Chain Knowledge through a Meta-Modelling Approach; Laura Laguna Salvadó, Matthieu Lauras, Tina Comes, Frederick Bénaben.- Chapter 5.2. Decision Support Systems for Urban Evacuation Logistics in Practice; Marc Goerigk, Horst W. Hamacher, Sebastian Schmitt.- Chapter 5.3. Advances in network accessibility and reconstruction after major earthquakes; Andréa Cynthia Santos.- Chapter 5.4. Information Technology in Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Dorit Schumann-Bölsche.- Chapter 5.5. Bridging research and practice in humanitarian logistics: a quick diagnostic tool to assess organisational agility; Cécile L’Hermitte, Marcus Bowles, Peter Tatham, Benjamin Brooks.- Chapter 6.1. The Evolutions of Humanitarian-Private Partnerships: Collaborative Frameworks Under Review; Rolando M. Tomasini.- Chapter 6.2. Review of empirical studies in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management: methodological considerations, recent trends and future directions; Lijo John.- Chapter 6.3. Four Theories for Research in Humanitarian Logistics; Richard Oloruntoba.- Chapter 6.4.From Aid to Resilience: How to Bridge Disaster Resilience and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Research; Eija Meriläinen.
