Research Continuity Task Force_Web Page

Screenshot of the University of Maine Research Continuity Task Force\u27s webpage. The Task Force was established by Kody Varahramyan, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maine to assist with the anticipated changes to the research guidelines and their implementation as the COVID-19 conditions dictate

Research Continuity Task Force_Plan for Phased Continuity of the Research Enterprise

Research Continuity Task Force Plan to re-open research at UMaine based on federal, state and UMaine system guidance, and the scientific evidence around COVID-19 infection control. The Task Force was established by Kody Varahramyan, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maine to assist with the anticipated changes to the research guidelines and their implementation as the COVID-19 conditions dictate

Supply chain involvement in business continuity management: effects on reputational and operational damage containment from supply chain disruptions

Purpose Does internal integration extend to business continuity and to managing supply chain disruptions (SCDs)? Despite the voluminous literature on supply chain integration, evidence on its effectiveness on risk management and disruption response is scant. The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of business continuity management (BCM) and of supply chain involvement in BCM (SCiBCM) on reputational and operational damage containment in the face of SCDs. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on Simons’ Levers of Control framework to explain how the involvement of supply chain in BCM affects firm capabilities in containing damages caused by major SCDs. The authors develop and test hypotheses by analyzing large-scale questionnaire responses from 448 European companies. Findings Results of the data analysis suggest that BCM improves reputational damage containment, whereas SCiBCM improves operational damage containment. The findings also show that the significant effects of BCM and SCiBCM on reputational and operational damage containment, respectively, were amplified for the firms facing higher supply chain vulnerability. Post-hoc analysis further reveals the complementarity effect between BCM and SCiBCM for the companies exposed to high supply chain vulnerability. Originality/value Evidence on the effects of BCM and its internal integration on performance is limited. This study offers empirical evidence on the topic. Also, while supply chain integration can improve information sharing and coordination, some may not fully recognize its potential benefits in addressing SCDs. This study theoretically and empirically demonstrates the role played by internal integration, in the form of SCiBCM, in improving organizational damage containment efforts

巨大災害とLCP(Life Continuity Planning)

１．はじめに～生きていく「希望」とは ２．リスクの不確実性と予防原則 ２．１ リスクの概念 ２．２ 不確実性 ２．３ 予防原則 ３．BCPとLCPを比較する ３．１ BCP ３．２ LCP ３．３ 生涯平均危険度 ３．４ 一生間に深刻な被害にあう可能性 ４．リスクとともに生きる ４．１ 生きることの意味 ４．２ リスクとコミュニティ ５．おわりに～新しい生の物語を紡

The material culture in the re-use phase (V-Earlier VII A.D.) on the site Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi (San Gimignano-Siena-Italy). Preliminary notes

Since 2005 an Italian-Belgian expedition, supported by the Université catholique de Louvain, part of the international project “VII Regio. Valdelsa during the Roman Age and late Antiquity” manages the archeological dig of a villa longinqua built between the end of 3th and the beginning of 4th century A.D. with monumental, architectural and decorative characteristic. At the end of 4th century A.D., the villa was subjected at significant restoration and, perhaps, also a resizing. At the end of the 5th century A.D., it was abandoned, and for the first time spoiled of the main part of marble, reused for the production of lime. Between the 6th and the 7th century A.D., it was occupied by craftsman that installed several workshops for the iron, glass, gold, lead and probably bronze manufacturing; they used, villa’s architectural and decorative parts, for the production of base material. Among the handcrafted plant there was a furnace for the pottery production (not yet dug). The main parts of the found pottery on the villa’s dig, comes from the latest phase, and documents the material culture between the 5th and the 7th century A.D. Theses detections allows us to appreciate coexistence of Roman age shapes and production’s techniques, with same anticipation of those of the Early Middle Ages. These coexistence becomes clear from the lecture of the functional and technological characters of the cooking pottery (prevalent shapes: cooking pots, casseroles, cups, small handled pots, clibani/baking dishes, lids), multifunctional devices, only apparently poor and of minor value