Supply chain Forum: An International Journal

Supply chain Forum: An International Journal Call for Papers

Supply Chain Management in Asia-Pacific Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014

From the supply chain perspective, the Asia Pacific region includes the major economies and more populous nations in a triangular zone between Japan and Korea in the North, Australasia in the South East and Pakistan at the Western boundary. Approximately 70 percent of the world’s container traffic passed through ports in the Asia Pacific region. Most Asia Pacific businesses reach their markets through complex supply chains, often comprising many trading partners and a variety of different paths to market. Supply chains in the Asia Pacific region are often significantly more difficult to manage than in many other parts of the world. Many of the businesses in Asia/Pacific are very dependent on the export markets in the U.S. and Europe, and have suffered as a result. Asia Pacific has more varied customer demands than anywhere else on earth. How do businesses best serve a sprawling geography with unique national cultures, different languages and scripts, extremes of economic development, regulatory diversity, and customers from hypermarkets to street stalls? How do businesses cope with the challenges of this complexity? This special issue of the Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal is devoted to publishing new and significant results related to Asia-Pacific that can be applied in supply chains and open environments subject to great uncertainty; system planning, control and optimization under uncertain environment; and best practices in adopting information technology. The guest editors invite and encourage you to submit to the special issue on "Supply Chain on Asia-Pacific". Special issues to be addressed in submissions could include, but are not limited to: • • • • • • • •

Cultural issues on supply chain in Asia-Pacific New structures for the next generation of global supply chains Risk management in open systems in a supply chain context Security, privacy, identity, trust issues related to information technology in supply chains Strategies for scaling dynamic supply chain networks Roles and views of focal companies, suppliers, professional organizations, certification and standardization organizations. Supply chains and performance measurement and management for sustainability in different industries. Comparative and in-depth exploratory case studies and/or empirical studies based on qualitative, quantitative of mixed-methods research methods.

Publication schedule The deadline for submissions is January the 15th 2014 Final version of papers due June the 15th 2014 Notification of final acceptance July the 15th, 2014 The special issue is expected to appear in September 2014 Accepted submissions will be subject to a double blind peer review process. On line Submissions to Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal http://www.supplychain-forum.com are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/scfij

Guest Editors Seock-Jin HONG, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Operations and IT Management KEDGE Business School, France [email protected] Oh Kyoung KWON, Ph.D. Professor, Graduate School of Logistics Inha University, Republic of Korea [email protected] Ik-Whan KWON, Ph.D. Professor, John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University Saint Louis, Missouri, USA [email protected]

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