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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Please can the following go out on LogProfs, many thanks</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">DEADLINE EXTENDED: Themed issue of Production Planning and Control - Call for Papers</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Please continue to submit to the themed issue of PPC on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Humanitarian Operations Management".</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The system should still allow you to submit to the special issue - please ignore the 31st January 2016 date.</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Guest Editors:</span></pre>
<pre><font face="Arial">Prof. Amir M. Sharif (Brunel Business School) and
Prof. Graham Heaslip (University of New South Wales / National University of Ireland)
This special issue aims to collect work from different applied areas and motivate scholars to develop applications-based </font><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">models in the realm of Humanitarian Operations Management. This is noting that the standard OM tools developed to address for-profit operations are not always the best fit to address humanitarian operations. For this reason there is a need to build theory by developing analytical and empirical models tailored to this type of operations. Moreover, novel OM theory needs to be developed to address issues exclusively pertinent to this area such as the management of donations, the design of fundraising mechanisms, and the study of the fund allocation problem.</span></pre>
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Noting the above, this special issue will attempt to bring together leading research into humanitarian logistics and disaster supply chain management from the perspective of approaches and strategies that can be applied from the operations and production management sphere for the benefit of these complex and challenging societal events.
Full call available at: <a href="http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/tppc-humanitarian-operations-management">http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/tppc-humanitarian-operations-management</a>
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Best regards<br>
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Amir<br>
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Professor Amir M. Sharif<br>
PhD, BEng (Hons), FRSA, FInstLM, FCILT, MCMI</div>
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Tel: (+44) 1895 265 326 / (+44) 787 569 6132<br>
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• Brunel Business School received the 2013 THE award for Best Business School <br>
• Brunel University is ranked 1st in London in THE World Ranking of the top 100 universities founded in the last 50 years<br>
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