The big news today is the merger of Pfizer and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, to the tune of $68 billion. Clearly, some of the potential benefits will involve the integration of these global firms' supply chain networks.
Hot off the press regarding the topic of horizontal mergers and acquisitions through supply chain integration, is the leading paper in the journal Transportation Research E: Logistics and Transportation Review, which I wrote way back in 2007, and which now appears in volume 45 (2009), pp. 1-15.
As I have mentioned before in this blog, one of my primary areas of research is operations research / management science, which involves the science of better decision-making. Our professional society is called INFORMS (The Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences) and there are now associated with it a growing number of bloggers. INFORMS has, as its members, academics, researchers, practitioners, as well as students, and the topics tackled by its members are some of the most pressing ones today.
About Me
- Dr. Anna Nagurney
- Dr. Anna Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was appointed to this chaired professorship on April 14, 2021. Prior to this chaired professorship, since 1998, she was the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management. She was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford University for the 2016 Trinity term. She was a Visiting Professor at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden for 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Her latest book is: Labor and Supply Chain Networks, published by Springer in 2023. Her other recent book, co-edited with I. Kotsireas, P.M. Pardalos, and A. Tsokas, is: Dynamics of Disasters: Impact, Risk, Resilience, and Solutions, and was published by Springer in 2021. She is also the co-author of the book: Competing on Supply Chain Quality: A Network Economics Perspective, with D. Li, and published in 2016. She is the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which she established in 2001.
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Labor and Supply Chain Networks
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Dynamics of Disasters - Algorithmic Approaches and Applications
Dynamics of Disasters - Key Concepts, Models, Algorithms, and Insights
Competing on Supply Chain Quality
Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products
Fragile Networks: Identifying Vunerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World
Supply Chain Network Economics
Sustainable Transportation Networks
Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age
Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks
Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision Making and Policy Analysis
Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics
Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach
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