Purpose – The literature on supply chain management has focused on the benefits of frequent and strategic communication in supply chains. However, it has paid much less attention to the difficulties and conflicts associated with day‐to‐day communications in supply chains. This discrepancy...

Purpose – This paper aims to develop and test hypotheses on determinants of supply chain managers’ salaries. While women make up about half the workforce, there is evidence in the trade press that they receive far less than half of the compensation. Sex of the manager and size of his or her...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relations between supply chain strategies and impact on terms and conditions of employment of multinational corporations operating in China. Design/methodology/approach – Case study analysis of two production plants owned by leading multinational...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide information about which conditions green supply chains have to fulfil in order to attain an environmentally sustainable situation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes a macro economic analysis in which, first, the non‐human – made...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the risks managers and individual supply chains perceive from e-business. Design/methodology/approach – This research takes a long-term, staged view of the risks managers and individual supply chains perceive from e-business. By taking a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the biofuels debate in air transport. Design/methodology/approach – The controversies about biofuels sustainability in general and research findings on biofuels are complemented by the specific circumstances the aviation industry...

Purpose – Given the proliferation of United Kingdom (UK) media headlines around the recent financial meltdown and the subsequent allocation of blame to government, bankers, the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority, it is clear that there is disquiet amongst the public as to how...