The study empirically investigates service provider firms' attempts to move to higher value-added market segments in competitive and fragmented markets; using logistics services as a context. Novelty is added by taking the provider not the customer or outsourcing actor perspective, common to...

Why regulation? -- Where are we coming from?... -- Tempering the tyranny of market powers -- The public cause of exploitation -- The art of steering public resources towards the common interest - the supranational approach -- The art of sector-specific regulation in the internal market -- The...

Purpose - The aim of the study is to find a sustainable facility location solution for a closed loop distribution network in the uncertain environment created by of high levels of product returns from online retailing coupled with growing pressure to reduce carbon...