Purpose – Research studies have revealed that supplier involvement in the design process is not widely practised. Aims to discuss the lack of an appropriate customer‐supplier interface to assess the suitability of suppliers with reference to design criteria. Design/methodology/approach –...

The aim of this article is to show how electronic commerce can fundamentally change the inter‐organisational processes at the interface between the buyer and supplier. It will be shown how electronic commerce is not only enabling the redesign of internal organisational processes but is...

In recent years, the importance of Internetand World Wide Web (WWW) technologies inmanufacturing industries has been risingvery rapidly in a global context. According toa recent study, Manufacturing Foresight 2020,conducted by UK Department of Trade andIndustry (DTI), the impact of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether ethnicity makes a difference to the level of respect given to teachers by tertiary accounting students. In particular, it examines whether ethnicity has an impact on students’ perceptions regarding their teachers’ attributes and...