Complex regulatory decisions about risk rely on the brokering of evidence between providers and recipients, and involve personality and power relationships that influence the confidence that recipients may place in the sufficiency of evidence and, therefore, the decision outcome. We explore...

We critically examine how evidence and knowledge are brokered between the various actors (agents) in regulatory decisions on risk. Following a précis of context and regulatory process, we explore the role power and personality might play as evidence is synthesised and used to inform risk...

In running our increasingly complex business systems, formal risk analyses andrisk management techniques are becoming a more important part of a manager'stool-kit. Moreover, it is also becoming apparent that human behaviour is often aroot or significant contributing cause of system failure. This...

The place of the international physical distribution function (or shipping function as it is conventionally called in the United Kingdom) has been largely neglected in the area of logistics or physical distribution studies. This neglect, in particular of the export shipping function, is...

In my introduction to this volume, devoted to international logistics, I would like to pose three questions:

In a previous paper the authors reported the results of a small scale survey of British managers responsible for international physical distribution (the conventionally titled shipping manager). Their paper concentrated on examining the organisational relationships used by the respondents'...

This paper reviews the use of computers in the international distribution of manufactures, concentrating on their application in order processing and documentation. It identifies the potential for a much wider use of computers by manufacturing exporters, especially exporters of high repeat order...

In an earlier paper, Gray and Davies used the expression “international logistics” to mean a system in which documentation flows are as much a part of the main logistical flow as flows of product. In this paper, the international logistics concept is formally presented. It is argued that the...

British industry suffers collectively from a reputation for poor delivery. What constitutes poor delivery has been examined in a number of studies. Turnbull and Cunningham researched four delivery factors with European buyers of industrial products. Out of five European countries, British...