Purpose: The increase in parcel quantities on the last mile requires new and innovative concepts to support sustainability efforts in urban areas. Crowdsourced delivery (CSD) represents a promising concept as it allows private couriers to take over the parcels' last mile on trips they would have...

Dass unsere billigen Konsumangebote eine weniger glitzernde Kehrseite haben, dringt kurz in unser Bewusstsein, wenn wieder mal eine Fabrik z.B. in Bangladesch einstürzt, wo Textilarbeiterinnen zu Hungerlöhnen für den Export produzieren (vgl. H. Holdinghausen: "Dreimal anziehen, weg damit",...

In ihrem Beitrag zur Elitendiskussion in Deutschland rechnet die Autorin mit den Leistungsverweigerern, die der sogenannten Leistungselite das Leben schwer machen und sich selbst vor den Herausforderungen der Gegenwart drücken, ab. (2-3)

Purpose: The dynamics of quality performance and quality cost are gaining renewed interest in quality management literature. Using large sample secondary data, the purpose of this paper is to build up empirical evidence for increasing quality performance in manufacturing in the long-run. The...

Purpose: Particularly in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business conditions, staff in supply chain management (SCM) look to real-time (RT) data processing to reduce uncertainties. However, based on the premise that data processing can be perfectly mastered, such expectations...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications for supply chain risk management (SCRM) by applying internet of things (IoT). Therefore, the impact and effects on the SCRM process, as well as the internal and external pathway and the outcome of SCRM are examined....

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how big data analytics capabilities (BDAC) enable the implementation of integrated business planning (IBP) – the advanced form of sales and operations planning (S&OP) – by counteracting the increasing information processing requirements....