(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Historically important trade routes for goods of all kinds for more than 3,000 years, the Silk Road has once again come to prominence. Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk (CRC Press, 2011) presents emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, and Hungary. It takes a results-oriented, comparative approach to supply chain management covering structural, strategic, and operational topics.

Authors Çagri Haksöz, Sridhar Seshadri, and Ananth V. Iyer first present how the historical Silk Road supply chains operated and then provide new and interesting examples from different countries the Silk Road passed, from China to Europe. They demonstrate that the supply chain concept and its related practices are not new, per se, and invented recently in the West. Rather, it was practiced for centuries along the Silk Road and became the foundation for today’s global supply chains. Against this backdrop, the reader explores the differences and similarities along the Silk Road in the supply chain management process and what can be learned from them.

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