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For this review, websites that provide relevant and interesting information on the recent Asian economic crisis have been selected. The amount of information available on the Web continues to expand at an incredible rate. The main problem remains, however, ie trying to identify the quality and accuracy of much of the information provided. In order to provide a comprehensive and balanced source of reference websistes have been chosen from four different types of sources, namely: international organisations; national governments; think tanks; and universities.

This review considers selected websites of interest to anyone concerned with electronic commerce and its regulation. This is an area of growing interest within the financial services industry, as the continuing developments in technology, such as the advent and increasing use of the Internet, multi‐media communications and scripted messages put the existing regulatory framework under immense pressure. In some cases, this has lead to an increasingly strained interpretation of the current legislation as regulators struggle to keep pace with the constant changes in technology.

To coincide with this special issue of the Journal, this review will begin by considering some websites that are particularly relevant to the draft Financial Services and Markets Bill.

This review considers selected websites that will be of interest to anyone involved in the analysis or regulation of emerging markets around the world. In particular, it concentrates on markets in Eastern Europe including Russia, Asia, and Latin America.

This website review will consider some selected websites that are of particular interest to anyone with an interest in risk management.

This is the first in a series of papers the Journal intends to publish looking at selected websites on the internet that are relevant to financial regulation and compliance.

Learning within the supply chain is widely considered to provide the basis for enhanced competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to explore the theory and current practice of organizational learning in UK construction supply chains.

A qualitative research strategy is followed for this exploration of supply chain management and organizational learning. Research enquiry draws on semi‐structured interviews with key construction supply chain stakeholders. The semi‐structure interviews are recorded, transcribed and analysed via qualitative data analysis software.

Careful examination of the transcripts reveal that whilst supply chain management practice in construction is limited, key schools of organizational learning are similarly underdeveloped. Findings disclose construction supply chain organizations routinely employ learning strategies that are best described as reactionary and interventionist.

Research was limited to the UK construction industry and represents the assessment and evaluation of construction clients and first‐tier supply chain members working within construction framework agreements. The perspectives of construction SMEs were out with the data set.

Underdeveloped organizational learning practices within supply chains present a significant barrier to the development and diffusion of supply chain management theory and practice in construction. In practical terms, the attainment of competitive advantage and the development of competing supply chain in construction would be extremely limited.

Connecting organizational learning to the development and diffusion of supply chain management has been largely overlooked within the construction management literature. The research makes two notable contributions. First, the adaptation of a pragmatic and holistic organizational learning framework for the appraisal of learning strategies and second an evaluation of organizational learning in construction supply chains.