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The paper introduces new dimensions of Information Systems evaluation. Sustainability issues have increasing importance and their influence is compared with the Internet revolution. Customers, policymakers and business partners increasingly require the monitoring and reporting of the impact of...
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This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project … Programme. One of the project goals is to identify and promote best sustainable practices in logistics and supply chain … section reviews EC policies on sustainability in transport and logistics. The main part of the analysis concentrates on the …
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innovation in trucking logistics. Transportation usually represents the single most important component in trucking logistics … container industry is how improvements in the trucking logistics impacts a firms overall operating rate. The literature contains … term contracts, and private carrier. This research seeks to identify practices in trucking logistics that box plants might …
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groups: researchers, logistics experts, RFID technology manufacturers, manufacturers' representatives and government …
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topics were developed in accordance with the model proposed in Logistics, Strategy and Structure: A Conceptual Framework … the selected sample. Section II of the survey posed questions directly dealing with logistics costs, competitive advantage …, strategy and performance.With regard to logistics costs, the research sought to determine the most significant costs, as …
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was conducted with non-profit managers. The sample contains 136 respondents; 36 from the UK, 33 from the USA and 67 from … Australia. Findings – Non-profit managers indicated that the most important marketing activities are promotional in nature. The …
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Commentators suggest that to survive in developed economies manufacturing firmshave to move up the value chain, innovating and creating ever more sophisticatedproducts and services, so they do not have to compete on the basis of cost.While this strategy is proving increasingly popular with...
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This research aims to measure and compare the total, backward, forward, internal and sectoral linkages of the real estate sector using the hypothetical extraction method over 30 years and explore the role of this sector in national economies and the quantitative interdependence between the real...
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provides the possibility to analyze changes in logistics and freight transport demand on a company, as well as on an overall …
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