“SCM2010 and Beyond”---Survey Background and Conditions Applying to the Use of Participants’ Responses

 

1. Who has developed the research survey, and what is intended with its results?

Research and design of the study has been prepared jointly by supply chain studies researchers from the University of Alberta’s School of Business and Michigan State University’s Eli Broad School of Management. Financial support for it has been provided by the Alberta Institute PMAC, and research results from it will contribute to on-going development of training programs for industry professionals.

 

2. What does the research survey comprise; what is involved in taking it?

A cross section of persons active in upstream oil and gas supply chain activities are being asked by the University of Alberta’s Centre for International Business Studies to first register with the Centre as potential participants for the survey, and then to proceed to actually complete the survey, the results of which are maintained at the Broad School of Management’s Department of Supply Chain Management. Completing the survey is expected to take 30 minutes or less, and involves providing assessments, that is, assigning a 1-to-5 value of importance to a 50-item listing of SCM-related industry criteria.

 

3. Would I take the survey as an individual, or as a representative of my employer and company?

As an individual, and anonymously, in terms of the responses provided.

 

4. What confidentiality assurances are in place concerning my participation and the use of results?

Names of contributors to the survey, and individual responses they provide will be kept strictly confidential. At survey’s end, results will be assembled, and outcomes will be shared with all respondents in an aggregated, tabled form only. Further use of the survey results by co-investigators would involve only the aggregate information, and not individual responses. At the outset to the survey, you will be asked to confirm that you are participating on the basis of these provisions’ applying.

In answering the survey, respondents will be asked to provide a return e-mail address; this will be used on two occasions only: 1) to send back, in summary form, a table of collected responses, as well as an invitation to the survey’s follow-up workshop. 2) In the fall of 2008, it is anticipated that an executive summit on Supply Chain strategy will get planned by Alberta Institute PMAC, and respondents to the survey would get forwarded an invitation to it, via the Centre for International Business Studies.

 

5. What professional benefits would be involved in participating?

As well as receiving back the survey’s results, all contributors, plus a select group of international academics in the supply chain field, will get invited to participate, on a voluntary and complimentary basis, a day-long workshop and reception to be held at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) in the final week of April, 2008. The results from this workshop would also get sent to participants in the survey.

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