Procurement is a critical supply chain management function that is susceptible to risk, due mainly to uncertain customer demand and purchase price volatility. A procurement approach in the form of a portfolio that incorporates the common procurement means is proposed. Such means include...

Rural areas provide an interesting laboratory for experimenting with technological advances in telecommunication networks. Rural telecommunications becomes an emerging infrastructure to improve rural services. This paper presents a decision support framework for designing such a rural area...

In this paper we present the theoretical model underlying a series of experiments that use cellular automata (CA) simulations to explore the impact of alternative systems of pollution property rights on urban morphology and performance. It is a partial equilibrium model of developer and...

The complex process of landed-property production in postreform China is examined with reference to Shanghai. In the specific context of a transitional economy, where planned and market elements coexist, the flow of capital into and out of the built environment is not automatically conditioned...

Part 1 of this two-part paper presented a spatial economic model of the urban development process which captures developers' profit-seeking behaviour, communities' welfare-seeking behaviour, and the mediating effects of alternative systems of land-use rights. Different systems of rights were...

Since economic reform in 1979 China has witnessed dramatic changes.In particular, the adoption of the new land leasing system in 1987 has led to the transformation of the urban internal structure of this country. Perhaps because of the lack of data, empirical studies lag far behind the rapid...