This paper describes a novel theoretical and empirical approach to tasks such as business process redesign and knowledge management. The project involves collecting examples of how different organizations perform similar processes, and organizing these examples in an on-line "process handbook."...

Several humanitarian organizations today find themselves thinly stretched in multiple protracted relief and recovery operations around the world. At the same time, the need for humanitarian relief and recovery operations is forecasted to increase dramatically in the next decades. Hence,...

Prepositioning of emergency supplies is a critical task for the success of humanitarian relief operations. However, little is known about how humanitarian practitioners actually make prepositioning decisions. In a laboratory (lab) experiment based on the Newsvendor model, humanitarian...