The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of supply chain drivers on the performance of Cement Manufacturing firms. A descriptive research design was used. The target population of the study was Managers or equivalent from Six (6) departments is Procurement, finance, legal, stores,...

The main aim of the study was to determine the role of cost management on the performance of Cement Manufacturing firms, examine the role IT integration on performance of Cement Manufacturing firms in Kenya, to find out the extent to which top management supply support affect performance of...

I begin by fitting traditional gravity equations to document that regional flows in the Brazilian cement industry exhibit gravity-like structure, with cement trade decaying sharply in distance traveled. I then show that this large distance effect owes to firms' strategic behavior over and above...

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on the Philippine cement industry where alleged cartel activities have taken place after the entry of the world's Big Three cement firms:...

Maintaining sufficient levels of competition ranks among the core interests of any national – and increasingly international – antitrust policy; however, the formal proof that a cartel really functioned economically and did not only exist in a legal sense is hard to deliver: market power is...