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
Continuous Learning: Building and Tapping into Alumni Networks in Low- and Middle-Income Country Higher Education Institutions
The Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa (CARISCA) ASU senior technical advisor working directly with a CARISCA PhD student at the 2022 Paper Development Workshop,
2022 Dissertation Award winner examines why chickens didn’t cross the road
Mocke’s winning dissertation proposal is on “Investigating the Development of Logistics Capabilities From a Resource Orchestration Perspective.” Although it’s a serious topic, he opens his proposal with an age-old joke: “Why did the chicken cross the road?”
Ghana’s third Logistics Managers Index shows contraction in inventory levels
The overall Logistics Managers Index (LMI) for Ghana for the third quarter of 2022 stands at
63.1, down 2.8 basis points from second quarter’s reading of 65.9. This decrease reflects a slight slump in the growth of Ghana’s logistics activities as a result of stresses in the economy
prevailing from the general high cost of doing business, depreciation of the Ghanaian cedi
against the United States dollar and high inflation rates.
Call for entries: PhD Dissertation Award Competition
We invite submissions from doctoral researchers whose primary affiliation is with a university or higher education institution in Africa and whose research is in logistics and supply chain management.
Seaports and African Trade: the Role of Ports in Africa’s Economic Growth
On Feb. 9, Frank Ojadi from the Lagos Business School faculty talked about the latest paradigm shifts in ports globally and the role ports are now playing to enhance trade. Ojadi holds a PhD in transport economics and has published articles, book chapters and cases on Nigerian seaports, supply chain and logistics management, and the maritime industry.