Supply Chain Management: Volume 5 Issue 1

The strategic challenge of electronic commerce

John Fraser, Nuran Fraser, Frank McDonald

Based on the results of an ongoing study into the impact of e‐commerce on UK business. The authors have provided input from both academic and commercial viewpoints. The intention…

Innovation and competition in UK supermarkets

Mark Harvey

Argues that the developments in UK supermarket practice in recent years have resulted in a distinctive system of retailing in the UK, and that this has some important consequences…

A practical framework for understanding the outsourcing process

Ronan McIvor

Over the last number of years, outsourcing has become an important issue for many organisations. The potential for outsourcing has moved from peripheral activities such as…

Effects of a green purchasing strategy: the case of Belfast City Council

J. Gordon Murray

Green purchasing has seen an increase of attention from researchers but as yet few case studies are available. The responsibility being placed on local councils to consider not…

Consumer behaviour and fruit quality: supply chain management in an emerging industry

Alistair Mowat, Ray Collins

Supply chains in new and emerging agricultural industries typically lack information linking product quality with consumer behaviour. This case study of the emerging persimmon…