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the international regulation of the world of work. Specifically, it seeks to explore the place and operations of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider whether lesbians may experience an “advantage” in non‐traditionally female work compared to heterosexual women, but argues for an intersectional approach to understanding the relationship between gender, sexuality and class in...
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-managers knew where to get the training their staff needed. Although regulation appeared most visible in prescribing what happened …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to develop psychometrically validated scale for logistical business continuity planning (LBCP) construct. Design/methodology/approach – Using survey data from 106 firms in transportation and warehousing industry the psychometric properties of...
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For individual transport customers in Europe, the trend is towards smaller shipment sizes and higher frequencies. At the same time, a considerable reshaping of the transport industry through mergers, acquisitions and alliances, particularly in road freight and freight forwarding industries has...
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Driver turnover is one of the most pressing issues facing the trucking industry. Low job satisfaction has been identified as a major reason for turnover among employees. Conventional wisdom in the trucking industry is that low pay and lack of home time are the factors that cause driver...
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about safety compliance and the current CSA regulation. Additionally, negative attitudes about safety compliance standards … effectiveness of the new regulation with regard to commercial transportation as well as possibly suggesting that drivers of …
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Develops and estimates efficiency and productivity measures in the US trucking and warehousing industry in the 48 contiguous states during the years 1994‐2000. The model, estimated via data envelopment analysis, accounts for both desirable outputs and undesirable outputs produced by a given...
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industrialized counterparts except for Japan and France in the transportation service industry. Interestingly, the DEA results also …
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Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the different characteristics a bill of lading holds as a document of title, including the proprietary effects a transfer of goods in transit can have and the bill's use as a means of security as well as its limitations in mo6dern international commerce....
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