The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 3 Issue 2

The Challenge of Change: Logistics in the New Europe

James Cooper, Kevin O'Laughlin, James Kresge

Europe today represents one of the world's fastest developing market‐places for both goods and services. Rapid changes in the business, political and regulatory environments are…

Symbiotic Logistics

Mark Andrew Mitchell, Stephen A. LeMay, Danny R. Arnold, Gregory B. Turner

The increased utilization and popularity of logistics partnerships dictates the necessity of a robust and soundly constructed theoretical foundation for examining these alliances…

Manufacturing in a Peripheral Location: An Assessment of the Logistical Penalties

Alan C. McKinnon

In terms of logistics, manufacturers located in peripheral areas are generally considered to be at a disadvantage. Surveys of Scottish manufacturers suggest that any logistical…

The Impact of Formalization on Warehousing Firms

Patricia J. Daugherty, Theodore P. Stank, Dale S. Rogers

Many of today's most successful companies have decided to focus on their core business and purchase other functional needs from outside vendors. Time and resource constraints make…

The Strategic Use of Space by Retailers: A Perspective from Operations Management

Gary Davies, Tony Rands

A retailer's selling space is one of its more important assets. While there are a number of approaches that can be adopted to define the space that is allocated to both products…

Material Flow in Electronic Product Based Supply Chains

Danny Berry, Denis R. Towill

A review of electronics product based supply chains is presented. This naturally leads to the development of a “reference framework” for electronic products supply chains. It is…