Purpose: The purpose of this study is to better understand the factors influencing the attraction of Indigenous workers to the Quebec forestry sector. Design/methodology/approach: Using a collaborative approach, 64 semi-structured interviews were conducted between 2016 and 2018 with workers and...

Performance of harvesting operations is vital for wood supply chains to enable delivery of the right product to the right market at the right price. Consequently, the performance of harvesting contractors has been the topic of many studies over the years, but few of these have investigated the...

In natural resource sectors such as forestry, supply is subject to yield uncertainty, which can make planning decisions a challenge. A common way of dealing with uncertainty is to coordinate the decisions so all units in a network can better prepare for unpredicted events. This can generate...

Forest harvesting business performance has traditionally been associated with the quest for productivity and lower operating costs. As a result, public policies and programs implemented by governments or contract givers designed to provide assistance to Forest Harvesting Entrepreneurs (FHE) are...

This paper presents a multiple-round timber auction simulation, developed in order to study various configurations of auction design. In this study, simultaneous sequential timber auctions are modelled and analysed using agent-based simulation technology. As there are many individual items in...

The timber auction system currently used in the province of Québec, Canada, is a single unit auction, in which timber users bid on the entire forest stands located within a specific area. In this procurement system, timber users (i.e., winners) are responsible for harvesting the entire stands...