Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk

Çağrı Haksöz · Sridhar Seshadri · Ananth V. Iyer

Dec 2011 · CRC Press

About this ebook

Historically important trade routes for goods of all kinds for more than 3000 years, the Silk Road has once again come to prominence. Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk present emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Lebanon,

About the author

gri Haksz, is Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Sabanci School of Management, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. His current research focuses on risk management in global supply chains, design and management of options in supply chain contracts, strategic product recall management, pricing weather derivatives, and risk intelligence.

Sridhar Seshadri is Professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin. His current research focuses on equilibrium asset pricing, pricing and revenue optimization, and risk management in supply chains.

Ananth V. Iyer is Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management and Director, DCMME and GSCMI at the Krannert School of Business, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. His current research focuses on analysis of supply chains, including the modeling of spare parts supply chains, auto industry supply chains, the impact of promotions on logistics systems in the grocery industry, analysis of the impact of competitors on operational management models, and the role of supply contracts.