... and Reiner’s (2012) meta-analysis that shows a growing trend of publications since the early 2000s. Outsourcing Disasters Aid agencies Cross-sector collaboration Third-party Along with some of the biggest natural disasters of all time, the twenty-first century has brought great advances...

.... In doing so, we are including activities such as the procurement of goods by aid agencies, their transport into the affected location, and their final distribution. In this respect, our perspective is similar to that of many commercial organisations, but we would also wish to emphasise the ad hoc...

... to a new and more desirable state after being disturbed. Differences between agility and resilience are depicted in Table I . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Supply chain management Aid agencies Flexible organizations Modelling Finally, we believe that our quest to define...

... to a disaster on the one hand, and measures triggered by a concrete disaster with directed focus on an affected community on the other hand. This distinction is judged a useful one and is adopted here. Modelling Supply chain management Communication technologies Process efficiency Aid agencies...

.... The responsibility has been clarified by the IASC (2006, p. 10) : © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Disasters Aid agencies Operations management Cluster analysis The increasing number and complexity of disasters has made specialisation and coordination both important and challenging...

... Supply chain management Non‐governmental organizations Flexible organizations Aid agencies Donors increasingly demand accountability, transparency and value for money in return for their sponsorship of humanitarian aid (HA) agencies. Meeting these more challenging performance...

... Decision support systems Aid agencies Disasters Operations management Water supply The described CTP consists of developing a set of vehicle routes while optimizing two objectives: Natural disasters occur where natural hazards strike the vulnerability of human beings. The degree by which...

... context (Yin, 1994). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Aid agencies Distribution management Supply chain management On the other hand, the academic research on horizontal cooperation in logistics is limited. Exceptions of industries in which horizontal cooperation has been...

... elements towards recovery and found that: 1. the response of national and international humanitarian organizations depended on these elements, as to say, search and rescue operations and national disaster relief activities ongoing in the disaster element, while international aid agencies would...

... for HA, this paper therefore seeks to identify the range of factors which are critical for the successful operation of an HA supply chain. Aid agencies Supply chain management Critical success factors The requirement to improve the delivery of humanitarian aid (HA) has recently received...

.../value The paper is believed to be the first to apply the terms “customer” and “customer service” systematically in a humanitarian context and thereby propose a customer service perspective in emergency relief chains. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 International aid Aid agencies...

... cost component of the objective function in order to enable a stepwise‐increasing cost function due to the previously mentioned tendency of suppliers to bid higher at high volume levels. Procurement Aid agencies Food United States of America Pricing The MIP is run with actual historical...