The papers in this volume introduce powerful new innovations in global supply chain networks. The best papers from the 2014 annual conference of the European regional subdivision of the Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI), they analyze the latest global trends associated with:

• Sustainability and corporate social responsibility
• Applications in modeling and decision techniques
• Social network analysis for better decision-making
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Relationship management
• ERP/Enterprise Business Intelligence
• Globalized manufacturing
• Performance and revenue management
• Risk management
• Business innovation management
• Supply chain operations management, and more

The papers collected here will be valuable to wide audiences of faculty, researchers, and students in diverse programs covering supply chain and/or operations management, and for others interested in the frontiers of decision science.