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Logisticians propose changes to improve supply chains, and legal practitioners do likewise, but from a different perspective. Proposals from one domain increasingly have an impact on the other due to e.g. globalization – but cross-disciplinary knowledge often seems limited. The purpose of this paper is to facilitate interaction between the domains by increasing the level of joint understandin…
Doctoral education is usually considered to be a one‐to‐one learning situation with the professor on one side of the table and the doctoral student on the other. With the joint‐Nordic PhD program in logistics, founded in 1997‐1998 by a network of senior scholars from business schools and universities throughout the Nordic countries, doctoral students are now part of a learning network c…
The purpose of this paper is to attract readers’ attention to the importance of the integration of corporate governance and innovation for companies to strive further in business. The paper also attempts to illustrate how an innovation champion can exist in companies with a good corporate governance structure and fully utilize the structure, at the same time being aware of the limitations of …
Since the late 1980s the ILO has supported the implementation of effective portworker training through the provision of generic training materials under its Portworker Development Programme (PDP). The programme is to be extended to include the major dry bulk trades, initially focusing on iron ore, coal and phosphate rock. In 2010 a study was conducted to gain an understanding of the organisatio…