A theme that emerges from the empirical literature into the impact of road traffic congestion on supply chains is the compounding effect of consignee behaviour on distribution costs: even as congestion levels rise, customers of manufacturers/distributors replenish product on a just-in-time (JIT)...

Redundancies of personnel arising from the corporatization and even subsequent privatization/closure of several federal departments have contributed to the number of small businesses in New Zealand, a phenomenon that will likely be mirrored at least partially as other nations progressively...