ANNOUNCE New Book on the Bullwhip Effect

[<delhoum@uni-bremen.de>]

Posted by <delhoum@uni-bremen.de>

Dear members of the system dynamics community,

A new contribution to the literature on the behavioural causes of the bullwhip
effect is available.

The results of my doctoral research ""Evaluation of the Impact of Learning Labs
on
Inventory Control: An Experimental Approach with a Collaborative Simulation Game
of a Production Network"" are now published in English. A brief description of
the
work follows:

Inventory oscillations lead to instabilities in supply chains causing boom &
bust
cycles and overshoot & collapse. Inventory oscillations, also known as the
Bullwhip Effect, are thought to gain in intensity with the globalization of the
economy. The study examines how learning laboratories could affect the
rationally-bounded decisions of schedulers with respect to the task of inventory
control in supply networks. The approach is grounded in the theories of systems
thinking and learning organization. The learning lab offers learning
opportunities at the individual, organizational and interorganizational level
and
identifies six decisional patterns of inventory control. A new behavioral cause
of the bullwhip effect is recognized to be counterintuitive decision making,
which produces what it is thought to lessen namely the bullwhip effect. A
countermeasure to this effect is the integration of the production plans to the
entire production load of the network through collaborative learning.

The book can be acquired on

www.amazon.de

With best regards,

Salima Delhoum
Posted by delhoum@uni-bremen.de
posting date Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:16:02 +0200
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