Summit Keynote: Role of Women in the Future World of Work
“You cannot leave half of the population behind and grow your economy. You need everybody taking part in the economic growth of a country and the world at large.”
2023 Supply Chain Research Summit Earns High Marks
The third annual Supply Chain Research Summit held in Accra, Ghana, in June was “incredibly successful,” in the words of CARISCA Executive Director Dale Rogers. “It was emotional to me at the end,” said Rogers after the event. “I couldn’t believe how good it was.”
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Experimental Research Designs in Supply Chain
More than 150 students, faculty and staff from KNUST and other higher education institutions in Africa gathered in person or virtually April 3 and 4 to learn about conducting experiments. The occasion was CARISCA’s second faculty workshop of the academic year.
Mahyar Eftekhar, an associate professor of supply chain management at Arizona State University, traveled to Ghana to lead the workshop. He shared examples of lab and field experiments he has conducted and talked about the value and power of experimental research.
Supply Chain Traceability: Improving Africa’s Agric and Health Sectors
CARISCA’s Supply Chain Action Network engages supply chain stakeholders in Ghana and across Africa to discuss current topics, trends, opportunities and challenges for managing African supply chains. The goal is to create a strong network of policymaking, private sector and civil society organizations to strengthen supply chain research, education and facilitate knowledge transfer.
CARISCA achieves ‘huge victory’ with journal publication
CARISCA achieved “a huge victory” this spring, in the words of executive director Dale Rogers, with a publication in one of the world’s leading supply chain journals. The Journal of Business Logistics published a paper by a CARISCA research team online May 1. It will be in the June print edition.
New project director takes helm
CARISCA welcomed a new project director to the team this spring, as David Schlinkert was promoted into the role in April. He previously served as the director of monitoring, evaluation, research and learning.
Startups in the Supply Chain Ecosystem—Practice and Research
Stephan Wagner, professor and chair of logistics management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), aims to change that. In his April 20 Distinguished Lecture, he set out to motivate researchers, both in Africa and other parts of the world, to take up projects at the interface of operations management and entrepreneurship.
Startups in the Supply Chain Ecosystem—Practice and Research
Startups are associated with innovation, emerging technologies, digitalization and disruptive business models. But the scholarly supply chain, logistics and operations management literature has up to now paid little attention to