Recently added articles from Journal of Business Logistics:
THE ROLE OF LOGISTICS IN MARKET ORIENTATION
Jul 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION As the business environment becomes more turbulent and competitive, organizations are realizing the resources that have historically sustained competitive advantage are no longer viable. More than ever before, survival depends on acquiring intelligence from outside the ...
A LOGISTICS STRATEGY TAXONOMY
Jul 01, 2008; ... The classification of observed phenomena is one of the most important and basic steps in conducting scientific inquiry (Carper and Snizek 1980). Classification schemes help bring order to complex sets of interrelated phenomena by identifying recurring patterns and common traits among elements ....
INTERORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Jul 01, 2008; ... A prevailing view held by interorganizational scholars throughout much of the twentieth century was that the nature of business to business relationships depended upon the relative power and control capabilities of participating firms (Mallen 1977). As a result, much of the debate in the ...
BEYOND EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF LOGISTICS OUTSOURCING GOAL ACHIEVEMENT AND GOAL EXCEEDANCE
Jul 01, 2008; ... The worldwide usage and importance of logistics outsourcing have grown dramatically since 1990. Indeed, a recent study by Langley, Sykes, van Dort, and Topp (2006) indicates that of total logistics expenditures in Western Europe and in the U.S., 64 percent and 48 percent, respectively, were ...
A PRACTITIONER'S DECISION MODEL FOR THE TOTAL COST OF OUTSOURCING AND APPLICATION TO CHINA, MEXICO, AND THE UNITED STATES
Jul 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Outsourcing of operations abroad has become so commonplace as to be taken for a standard of doing business. In the past year, almost 1600 newspaper articles have been published with "outsourcing" in the headline. Wal-Mart alone brings in over $15 billion in goods from China ...