... become more similar or whether their logistics costs and logistics markets have developed differently over time. Design/methodology/approach The development of the logistics market is addressed through two survey-based variables. Logistics costs are used to measure the size of the logistics market...

... of contract theory and software engineering are used to explain why the five archetypes in the proposed typology provide gradually increasing levels of design flexibility and to develop hypotheses about the associations between design flexibility and a set of project cost dimensions. Design/methodology...

... they may offer for designing new models of analysis and to understand how they can contribute to and improve business units. Outsourcing Knowledge management Production processes Costs Italy Increasingly, one of the features of production systems in modern economies is the growing...