Reading list

Global Logistics Management

Global logistikhantering

Course
GM0534
Second cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2024 (2024-09-02)
Decision date
2024-09-08

Main literature:

  • Branch, A.E. (2006) “Export practice and management”, 5th Ed., London, Thomson Learning.
  • Branch, A.E. (2009) “Global Supply Chain Management and International Logistics” Ed. Routledge Taylor and Francis, 1st Edition, ISBN: 9780415398459
  • Manners-Bell, J (2016) “Introduction to Global Logistics: Delivering the Goods”, Ed. Kogan Page, 2nd Edition, EAN: 9780749478254.
  • Sweeney, E. and Waters, D. (2021) “Global Logistics: New Directions in Supply Chain Management”, Ed. Kogan Page, 8th Edition, EAN: 9781398600003.
  • Mangan, J.; Lalwani, C and Calatayud, A. (2020) “Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management”, Ed. Wiley, 4th Edition, ISBN: 978-1-119-70305-1


Additional literature:

  • Bowersox, D.J.; Closs, D.J.; Bixby Cooper, J.C. (2013) “Supply Chain Logistics Management”, Ed. McGraw-Hill International Edition, 4th Edition, ISBN: 9780071326216
  • Krajewski, L.J.; Malhotra, M.K.; Ritzman, L.P. (2019) “Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains”, Ed. Pearson, 12th Edition, ISBN 10: 1-292-25993-0.
  • Simchi-Levi, D; Kaminsky, P: Simchi-Levi, E. (2008) ” Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies”, McGraw-Hill International Edition, 3rd Edition, ISBN: 978-0-07-110750-1
  • Sales, M. (2016) “Aviation Logistics: The Dynamic Partnership of Air Freight and Supply Chain”, Ed. Kogan Page, 1st Edition, EAN: 9780749472702.

Specific literature

Lecture 1 (available on Canvas)

  • Gerbl, M; McIvor, R.; Humphreys, P. (2016) “Making the business process outsourcing decision: why distance matters”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 36 (9), 1037-1064.
  • Kathawala, Y.; Zhang, R.; Shao, J. (2005) “Global outsourcing and its impacts on organisations: problems and issues”, International Journal Services Operations Management, 1 (2), 185-202.
  • The Economist, 2020 “Is a wave of supply-chain reshoring around the corner?”, Published on the 16th of December, 2020, The Economist – Finance & Economics (Accessed:01/09/2021)

Lecture 2 (available on Canvas)

  • Bhatnagar, R and Viswanathan, S (2000) “Re-engineering global supply chains: Alliances between manufacturing firms and global logistics services providers”, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 30 (1), 13-34
  • Fabbe-Costes, N.; Jahre, M.; Roussat, C. (2009) “Supply chain integration: the role of logistics service providers”, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 58 (1), 71-91.
  • Kiesel, F.; Ries, J.M.;Tielmann, A. (2017) Reprint of” The impact of mergers and acquisistions on shareholders’ wealth in the logistics service industry”, International Journal of Production Economics, 194, 261-277.


Lecture 5 (available on Canvas)

  • O’Kelly, M. (1998) “A geographer’s analysis of hub-and-spoke networks”, Journal of Transport Geography, 6 (3), 171-186


Lecture 6 (available on Canvas)

  • Baxter, G.; Srisaeng, P. (2018) “Cooperating to compete in the global air cargo industry: The case of the DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo A.G. Joint Venture Airline “AeroLogic”, Infrastructures, 3(7), 1-30.
  • Bombelli, A. (2020) “Integrators’ global networks: A topology analysis with insights into the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic”, Journal of Transport Geography, 87, 102815


**Powerpoint slides from all lectures **(Available on Canvas)