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Trust in the US‐EU Fruit and Vegetable Chain: Do US Exporters Understand EU Importers?
Ameseder, Christoph; House, Lisa; Haas, Rainer; … - 2010
Research on organizational and inter‐organizational trust has become an important field in management andmarketing … of whom we trust; is the person whom we are trading with trusted, or the organization,or just the product‐quality? Not … objective of this research study therefore is toidentify how well US exporters understand the elements of trust that establish …
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Sustainability – a new dimension in information systems evaluation
Piotrowicz, Wojciech Piotrowicz; Cuthbertson, Richard - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441409
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Sustainable supply chains – a framework for best practice assessment: results of the pilot study, BestLog project.
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Cuthbertson, Richard; Islei, Gerd
This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project. BestLog (www.bestlog.org) is a research project initiated by the European Commission (EC) and financed from the 6th Framework Programme. One of the project goals is to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441420
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Investigations into Flexible Operational Paradigms to Mitigate Variability.
Williams, Damon Phillip - 2009
The work of this dissertation is concerned with the study of the effectiveness ofparadigms of production flexibility to either improve system performance or mitigatesystem risk. A brief introduction to the concept of operational flexibility is provided inChapter I. In Chapter II, we consider a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476586
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Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation
Qu, Zhe - 2008
There are three essays on the economics of information technology innovation in my dissertation:1. Procurement contracting strategies in a hierarchical supply network; 2. R and D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies firm level evidence from the information technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475894
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The development and implementation status of RFID in China
Scavarda, A; O'Neill, P; Scavarda, L; Wang, X - 2009
Although the development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been amazing, it is still in its infancy worldwide. RFID still has to overcome several obstacles such as privacy and security, cost and standardisation. The industry in China offers a great arena for research in this field, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481517
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An information privacy taxonomy for collaborative environments
Centre for Extended Enterprises and Business Intelligence
Purpose: Information Privacy is becoming an increasingly important field of research with many new definitions and terminologies. Along similar rates of increase are the use, uptake and expansion of Collaborative Environments. There is a need for a better understanding and classification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434998
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Towards more complete satisfaction of customers in construction
Shirazi, A; Hampson, Keith D. - 1999
In an environment where economic, political and technological change is the rule, a fundamental business strategy should be the defence of traditional markets and thoughtful entry into new markets, with an aim to increase market penetration and stimulate profit. The success of such a strategy...
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Innovation, Collaboration, and the International Firm
Hargreaves, Michael - 2004
product development - collaboration, innovation, and internationalisation - are the core tenets of the accompanying … is investigated and this leads to postulating a period of technological overlap and its implications for collaboration ….One of the shortcomings acknowledged in the literature is the generic application of the term collaboration to cover a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438085
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Determinants and consequences of information sharing with key suppliers
Yigitbasioglu, Ogan - 2008
, companies first integrated their information systems to speed up transactions such as ordering and billing. Later collaboration … expected substantial benefits from collaboration. However, one could also argue that the recent popularity of the concepts … from professional organizations as well as academia indicate that the trend towards interorganizational collaboration is …
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