During the past years the market share of trade chains has increased substantially in Hungarian food commerce. The concentration of food commerce and the increasing presence of international and national trade chains can beobserved in Hungary as well. It is generally true that small and...

The U.S. hardwood sawmilling industry has experienced significant changes over the past decade. A slowing housing industry, competition from imported products, higher transportation costs, and high stumpage prices have changed the business of manufacturing and marketing hardwood lumber. Also,...

VAG—a prototype animated, interactive, three-dimensional virtual environment model of a supply chain in the agribusiness sector has been developed as a CD-based game of strategy. Users (players) have to both create their supply chain by choosing the components that make it up, and then play...

Supply chain related problems are a major impediment to doing business with China, especially where perishable products are concerned. Previous research attributes much of the blame to unsophisticated Chinese logistics and distribution systems, or difficulties in implementing supply chain...

VAG is a prototype animated, interactive, three-dimensional virtual environment model of a supply chain in the agribusiness sector and has been developed as a CD-based game of strategy. Users (players) have to both create their supply chain by choosing the components that make it up, and then...

This dissertation investigates the use of information exchange in industrial supply chain relationships. Specific information exchange characteristics are analyzed to determine their contribution to firm performance from the perspective of both the technology champion firm and the trading...

This dissertation investigates the effects of firm financial distress on two key firm decision variables: sales prices and inventories. These analyses contribute to the Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm literature. Specifically, the feedback loop between financial distress, a result of poor...

A drastic reduction in the cost of transmitting information has tremendously increased the°ow and availability of information. Greater availability of information increases the ¯rm's abilityto manage its supply chain and, therefore, increases its operational performance. However,...

This refereed paper was presented at the 29th Institute for Small Business Entrepreneurship Conference, 31st October - 2nd November 2006, Cardiff.

Presented at the 33rd AIB-UK Conference 'International Business in the Age of Anxiety', University of Manchester, 7-8 April 2006.