Three major trends have come together raising the stakes for firms seeing to compete in the new economy. First, knowledge management poses the idea that every organization holds knowledge in the minds of its personnel that can be identified, collected and managed for competitive advantage....

An inland container port is an intermodal terminal facility that handles containerized shipments at a site away from a seaport(s). Such facility is typically linked to a deep water port by highways and rail, and operates as a container transfer point between different transportation modes. The...

The common law, and how it develops rules for allocating risk and deciding business and commercial disputes through a body of reported decisions, has provided a framework for governing commercial trade and commerce that has served business well over the years.Recent empirical research by...

A well crafted and reasonable liquidated damages provision is one of the best leverage tools available for preventing the counterpart and supplier in a supply chain contract from breaching their agreements. This is also the primary reason for having a written contract in the first place. In this...

Supply chain contracts in developing markets such as China were once not worth the paper they were written on. As the market and legal systems matured, however, savvy organizations started to use supply contracts to protect the integrity of their global supply chains. In this article we address...

Foreign firms doing business in or with China are likely to sell products and services to Chinese state-owned enterprises. When a dispute requires the Chinese legal system for resolution, the SOE is likely to be favored. We illustrate how self-enforcing contracts can be drafted and utilized as a...

There is serious debate within the global business community regarding the value of the Chinese court system and written business contracts in China. One side asserts the validity of such contracts and that Chinese courts are good at enforcing them. The other side argues the contrary. Using data...

Issues of globalization and divergence in terms of national systems and cultures are equally contentious, yet equally important, in the context of increasing cross-continental co-operation. This article investigates comparative strategic decision styles in Britain, the USA, Germany and Japan. An...

Rapid growth in global incomes and the world’s affluent population, coupled with changing consumer tastes and frequent shocks to food supplies, places unprecedented pressures on the world’s food demand and supply balance, and by extension, the worldwide “cold-chain” food transportation...

We are entering a period of dynamic and fundamental change in the transportation and logistics industry. The communication and collaborative aspects of the Internet are changing the way firms develop their logistics strategies, processes and systems. Internet and digital technologies help...