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      Humanitarian logistics and supply chain management: the start of a new journal

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      Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
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          Abstract

          Purpose

          The purpose of this paper is to present a brief overview of the field of humanitarian logistics and supply chain management and outline the scope of the new Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management ( JHLSCM). It further aims to highlight the variety of humanitarian logistics research and summarize the articles in the inaugural issue.

          Design/methodology/approach

          Results from an e‐mail survey with editorial board members are presented. The survey is used to further shape the scope of JHLSCM.

          Findings

          The journal draws on a variety of research streams in humanitarian logistics. This is seen as its richness but also as a challenge.

          Research limitations/implications

          Humanitarian logistics is an emerging field. There is still a lack of good empirical research and research with rigor as well as relevance. More research needs to be done in developing countries and by researchers from these.

          Practical implications

          Even though there has been collaboration between humanitarian and commercial organizations, there is also a need to establish humanitarian‐academic partnerships to improve training, education, as well as research – which should ultimately manifest itself in an improvement of practice.

          Social implications

          Humanitarian logistics research needs to rediscover its aim to serve beneficiaries.

          Originality/value

          This paper is an introduction to the inaugural issue of a new journal, JHLSCM.

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          Humanitarian aid logistics: supply chain management in high gear

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            Humanitarian logistics in disaster relief operations

            – This paper aims to further the understanding of planning and carrying out logistics operations in disaster relief. – Topical literature review of academic and practitioner journals. – Creates a framework distinguishing between actors, phases, and logistical processes of disaster relief. Drawing parallels of humanitarian logistics and business logistics, the paper discovers and describes the unique characteristics of humanitarian logistics while recognizing the need of humanitarian logistics to learn from business logistics. – The paper is conceptual in nature; empirical research is needed to support the framework. The framework sets a research agenda for academics. – Useful discussion of the unique characteristics of humanitarian logistics. The framework provides practitioners with a tool for planning and carrying out humanitarian logistics operations. – No overarching framework for humanitarian logistics exists in the logistics literature so far. The field of humanitarian logistics has so far received limited attention by logistics academics.
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              Facility location in humanitarian relief

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                Journal
                Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
                Emerald
                2042-6747
                May 20 2011
                May 20 2011
                : 1
                : 1
                : 5-14
                Article
                10.1108/20426741111123041
                f9eb31b5-8ca8-4212-b815-ff5d936f7032
                © 2011

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