... and cost efficiency in SC design. Decision making Strategic planning Supply chain management Modelling Distribution management Inventory decisions North America Supply chain design Response time Binary integer programming Responsiveness-efficiency frontier Supply chain design...

... external integration capabilities can result in the improvement of resource attributes, such as their value or rarity, and ultimately to an increase in a company’s financial performance. Distribution management Supply chain management In recent years, many enterprises have begun...

... be contacted at: pralston@iastate.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Logistics salience Logistics innovativeness Service differentiation Distribution management Innovation Supply chain management Logistics has long been recognized as a potential source of competitive advantage...

... Logistics information integration Competitive advantage Comparative logistics/supply chain management Distribution management Supply chain management United States of America China The significance of logistics has evolved from a more passive and cost minimization oriented activity to a key...

... Group Publishing Limited 2012 China Distribution management Supply chain management Service operations Resource efficiency Competences Operational routines Logistics and supply chain competencies Resource based view Chinese logistics service providers Resource‐based view (RBV...

... of research in IJLM. Stephanie Thomas can be contacted at: st01846@georgiasouthern.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Logistics Supply chain management Distribution management Research Theory Journal evolution Periodicals We statistically compared...

... logic Distribution management The contemporary transshipment problems have become one of the most popular and important issues not only in the land logistics and the air logistics, but also in the marine logistics. It is an extension of the transportation problem which is a critical area...

... Publishing Limited 2012 Military logistics Military actions Thought leaders Theory of Reasoned Action Theory of Organizational Design Distribution management My logisticians are a humorless lot […] they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay (Alexander the Great...

... conducting research into cross‐cultural logistics and supply chain management strategies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 International logistics Logistics strategy Supply chain management Supply chain Comparative logistics Distribution management Guatemala United States of America...

...‐assemblies of electronic products, is making the world economies more and more service‐based and logistics plays a crucial role in such economies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Distribution management Supply chain management Services The P6 and the core of the proposed...

... be contacted at: czd0001@auburn.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Supply chain management Distribution management Good research is grounded in theory (Mentzer, 2008). In order for a discipline to progress beyond the pre‐paradigmatic stage and be considered a mature discipline...

... of these challenges if properly designed and executed. Travis Tokar can be contacted at: travis.tokar@tcu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Behaviour Decision making Supply chain management Distribution management Logistics can generally be identified by its focus...

... evaluations of vendor attribute importance with customer evaluations of competitive performance on those attributes (Stock and Lambert, 2001). The framework follows this process: Commercial road vehicles Drivers Career satisfaction Distribution management The strategy is impeccable: find out...

... Distribution management Resource management The world is getting smaller. Firms are sourcing raw materials and finished goods from the other side of the globe and distributing product to countries once thought to be beyond reach. How did we get to this point? What allows a firm to move product around...

... in differentiating service offerings from other offerings in the marketplace (Berry, 2000 ; Gordon et al.,1993) . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Brand equity Brand image Brand awareness Distribution management Logistics services in the supply chain can be considered...

... will employ related to the logistics operations and relationship management with other supply chain players, such as buyers, suppliers, and logistics service providers. Distribution management Brazil For researchers, controlling for the level of logistics complexity should help avoid any...

... of LCC manufacturing firms (Moattar Husseini and O'Brien, 2004 ; Millington et al., 2006 ; Zhou and Chuah, 2002). Suppliers Sourcing Distribution management Socio‐economic regions United States of America In essence, LCC suppliers appear to have comparative advantages over...

... location of the university or research institution to which the author(s) was attached. We have analysed the gathered data in a number of ways as follows: Distribution management Serials The research of scholarly journals has been performed in different disciplines for many years...

... to explore the rich set of issues and challenges involved in implementing and achieving functional alignment in real world settings. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Distribution management Supply chain management Operational research Supply chain management (SCM) involves...

...., 1977 ; Piercy et al., 1977). These studies offered valuable feedback to improve the quality of the nascent logistics programs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Curricula Teaching methods Distribution management Logistics has traditionally maintained a close...