EurOMA 2022 – SCORCH
The SCORCH (Supply Chain and Operations Research) community will lead two special track sessions in EurOMA 2022: Track 38 Organisational Resilience, Risk and Business Continuity and Track 48 on Increasing supplier diversity and inclusion in future supply chains.
https://www.euroma2022.org/call-for-papers
Track 48 is also linked to a special issue with Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (ABS 3*).
Both tracks welcome multidisciplinary research and practical studies. The abstract submission deadline is 12th January 2022 for 1000 words.
More details:
- Organisational Resilience, Risk and Business Continuity
Track proposers: Ran Bhamra (Loughborough, UK), Chris Hicks (Newcastle, UK), Adrian Small (Northumberland, UK).
Organisational Resilience spans a broad spectrum of interest and is sometimes difficult to interpret due to its complex nature. However, its importance is universally acknowledged. This track will focus on Organisational Resilience (distinct from supply chain resilience) issues and how they impinge upon and encompass topic areas such as, but not exclusively, the following: crisis management, business continuity, disaster recovery, resilience enhancement practices, risk management, cases studies, human factors, implications of cyber, AI and Internet of Things risk to the organisation, resilient process development, individual resilience, practitioner insights.
- Increasing supplier diversity and inclusion in future supply chains
Proposer: Ying Yang and Jas Kalra (Newcastle, UK)
The benefits of supplier diversity and inclusion (SDI) have been increasingly recognised, including improving supply chain resilience and eco-supply chains. Partnering with non-traditional suppliers also provides access to new markets and innovation. However, there is little understanding of enablers and barriers to SDI, business models and supply chain networks that can increase it, and government policies that can further it. This special track welcomes research examining the issue from different perspectives, theoretical approaches, methodologies and contexts. Papers will have the opportunity to be invited to submit to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.