Reverse logistics is gaining importance as organizations pursue sustainability and circular supply chain strategies. This course introduces participants to the concepts and processes involved in managing the flow of products and materials back through the supply chain.

On February 11, 2026, CARISCA will host a Research Capacity-Building Workshop featuring guest editors from The International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM). The workshop is designed to strengthen the research skills …

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Publishing in reputable journals remains one of the most important and often most challenging aspects of an academic career. For many African researchers, especially early-career scholars, navigating desk rejections and responding effectively to reviewer feedback can feel daunting. Yet these experiences are a normal part of the scholarly journey and, when approached strategically, can become powerful learning opportunities.

Given the importance of the supply chain to organizations across the globe, businesses are looking for opportunities to make processes faster, cheaper, and easier as materials move from the point …

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Existing business and management theories have largely been developed to fit Western market environment conditions. While these theories are often treated as universal, they do not always reflect the realities …

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With this workshop, using only free and open-access software (R programming language), we will cover the basics of geospatial modeling: reading in geospatial datasets, cleaning geospatial datasets, and parsing them. The outcome of the workshop is being able to work with geospatial data in R, including making maps.