Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain Management and Logistics

This book is a collection of chapters on issues we face today in the world of supply chain management. While there are a number of college textbooks related to specific areas within logistics and supply chain issues, there are very few general supply chain management "trends" books. Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain Management and Logistics consists of seven dynamic, current and informative chapters that cover a variety of cutting-edge supply chain topics of use to both graduate students, and professionals working in the field. The book contains new, original research papers written by academics from the fields of engineering, transportation, marketing, and supply chain management and logistics.

Anthony M. Pagano, is director of the Center for Supply Chain Management and Logistics www.supply-chain.uic.edu at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author or coauthor of over 150 articles, technical reports, and papers presented at professional meetings, he is the co-author of the book The External Environment of Business: Political Economic, Social and Regulatory, 1995, 2nd edition in 1997. He has been project director or project manager of over 40 separate research and consulting projects. He teaches courses in supply chain and logistics, transportation economics and public policy, and international business. Pagano has a PhD in economics from the Pennsylvania State University.

Mellissa Gyimah is a doctoral student studying literacy language and culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include race and reader response, textual lineages of black students and teachers who instruct those students, and including black texts within the literary canon and positioning theory. Being black British, she is concerned with the lack of variegated black texts that represent black immigrants, as well as African Americans within the high school literary canon and curricula. She has previously taught secondary school English and PE in Dover, United Kingdom.