... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Organizations Information systems Construction industry Knowledge sharing Inventory Canada Information technologies (ITs) have already been used to support various intra‐ and inter‐organizational processes in the construction industry, including...

...‐sized enterprises Supply chain management Surveys Canada In 2004, internet sales by Canadian companies and government departments grew by almost 50 percent over the previous year [1] , but internet commerce still accounts for less than 1 percent of total operating revenues for private...

... efficient one? Peter W.B. Phillips can be contacted at: phillips@duke.usask.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Innovation Product development Investments Agricultural products Canada Rapeseed has been converted in the past 30 years from a small, stagnant, marginal...

... characteristics and the type of transaction characteristics to influence the level of vertical coordination. Beef products and their associated consumer markets possess many of the drivers and factors suggested by Hobbs and Young (2001) where increased coordination may develop. Cow‐calf producers in Canada...

... Food crops Genetic modification Production management Supply chain management Canada Agriculture is going through a fundamental transformation from a loosely connected array of related markets into a set of increasingly vertically managed supply chains. Technology (e.g. advanced breeding...

... and continuity of supply, the formal supply chain in Canada may collapse and Canadian lamb will become a local cottage industry with the retail chain and institutional markets serviced by offshore suppliers. Examines one of the key interfaces in the Canadian lamb supply chain. Conjoint analysis is used to assess...

... chain management taken from the UK bread industry. Warburtons Ltd procures bread wheat varieties with specific intrinsic quality attributes from Canada using identity preserved supply contracts. The paper concludes that the benefits of wheat quality control will encourage millers and bakers to develop...

...K.K. Klein; A.M. Walburger; Faminow; B. Larue; R. Romain; K. Foster Examines the hog marketing system in Canada and the development of single‐desk hog marketing agencies, acting as central selling agencies, which have made an important contribution in enhancing the pork supply chain. Reports...