Third-Party Logistics- Is There a Future

In this article, the authors describe the results of a study on strategies of third‐party logistics (TPL) providers. The size of the TPL industry and the different requirements placed on logistics as opposed to basic services, such as transportation or public warehousing, justify the need to treat TPL as a separate industry. The authors describe three waves of entrants into the TPL industry a…

A meta-analysis of DEA and SFA studies of the technical efficiency of seaport

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in seaports’ Mean Technical Efficiency (MTE) scores based on 40 studies published in refereed academic journals. We link the variation in estimated MTE scores to differences in the following factors: the frontier methodology used, which essentially are the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA); regions wher…

Outstanding : 47 ways to make your organization exceptional

Every day outstanding organizations do things and promote values that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. People in these organizations hold values and take actions-- individually and collectively--that are not always easy or obvious but are fundamentally powerful. 

Informed by his own …

Jumping the S-Curve : how to beat the growth cycle, get on top, and stay there

Recently, some bestselling management books have focused on providing a recipe for greatness, while others have sought to unlock the secrets of long-term success. But a detailed analysis at the intersection of the two, one that explains how some companies manage to achieve repeated peaks of business performance, has been missing — until now. Accenture’s Paul Nunes and Tim Breene have found …

Full engagement! : inspire, motivate, and bring out the best in your people

In these tough economic times, everyone is expected to produce more with less. And yet, studies have shown that on average, employees are working at only a fraction of their potential. What are managers to do? How can they inspire their people to perform at their absolute best? Whatever the situation, a good manager can quickly organize a group of average performers into a high-functioning team…

Beyond performance management : Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best P…

There’s a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization’s strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance.But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many…

Workforce of one: revolutionizing talent management through customization

Companies have excelled by treating customers as "markets of one"-offering them personalized buying experiences. But in managing talent, most firms still use one-size-fits-all HR practices. With today's diverse workforces, this approach is preventing organizations from attracting, retaining, and leveraging top talent.n Workforce of One, Susan Cantrell and David Smith show how exceptional compan…

Winning tactics for managers

For the first time, this handy, readable book brings together selected concepts, processes and techniques from eighteen most widely-used public short, intensive skill-oriented workshops developed in the five years by Asia's most dynamic and sought-after seminar leader - Jimmy Low. Based on workshops covering a board spectrum of managerial skills ranging from assertiveness training to zero-base…

The Impact of Effective Human Resources Training on Employee Performance in a…

Training is an important factor in improving employee performance while also enhancing a company's goals. Regardless of the size of an organisation, training is vital to ensure that its future is secured, especially in the current dynamic business environment.The objective of this research was to determine whether there is an influence of training needs assessment, training content and delivery…

Getting real about Big Data: applying critical realism to analyse Big Data hype

An emerging application of Big Data is the addition of sensors and other micro-electronic devices to engineer-to-order (ETO) goods such as one-of-a-kind buildings and ships. The addition of micro-electronic devices can enable the setting up and operation of smart buildings and smart ships. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical realist analysis of Big Data hype. This is necessary…

Network effects in the East Asia container ports industry

This paper proposes an integrated set of 4Cs indices, namely, centrality index, competition index, congestion index and concentration index to examine network effects in the East Asia container port industry. Empirical analysis confirms that larger ports enjoy greater direct network effects related to economies of scale, whereas, smaller ports leverage on indirect network effects to widen their…

Internalization of port congestion: strategic effect behind shipping line del…

This paper develops a theoretical model to analyze the congestion internalization of the shipping lines, taking into account the ‘knock on’ effect (i.e. the congestion delay passed on from one port-of-call to the next port-of-call). We find that with the presence of the knock-on effect, liners will operate less in terminals, and an increase of a liner’s operation in one terminal will decr…

Impact of privatization on port efficiency and effectiveness: results from Pa…

Panama has five main ports: Balboa and PSA Panama International on the Pacific, and Cristo´ bal, Manzanillo and Colon Container Terminal (CCT) on the Caribbean side. The government of Panama originally operated the ports of Balboa and Cristo´ bal. After being transferred from the United States government, most of these ports were privatized in the late 1990s. During this period, some por…

Firm-specific Effects on Location Decisions of Foreign Direct Investment in C…

HONG J. (2007) Firm-specific effects on location decisions of foreign direct investment in China’s logistics industry, Regional Studies 41, 673–683. This paper uses conditional logit models to investigate firms-specific effects on location decisions of foreign direct investment in China’s logistics industry. Based on a recent census database, the empirical results indicate that the import…

The Marketing System of the Manila International Container Terminal

Sea-Land Corporation pioneered the ocean shipping of containerized cargo 32 years ago. The company operates 12 exclusive and 11 preferential major terminals to serve 78 ports in 64 countries throughout the world[l]. During the years of depression in the international shipping business, especially 1985 and 1986, the company tried to diversify and go into the terminal services business. The Sea…

Laporan pelaksanaan kegiatan effective change management in projects batch I …

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the Relationship between leader fit and transformational leadership

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Vol. 28 Iss 1 pp. 55 - 73

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A 3-R principle for characterizing failure in relief supply chains’ respons…

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a 3R (right time, right place, and right material) principle for characterizing failure in humanitarian/relief supply chains’ response to natural disasters, and describes a Bayesian methodology of the failure odds with regard to external factors that may affect the disaster-relief outcome, and distinctive supply chain proneness to failure.

Effects of Insurance on Maritime Liability Law: A Legal and Economic Analysis

The book examines how the absence of insurance in the past led to some unique maritime liability law principles such as ‘general average’ (i.e., losses or expenses shared by all the parties to a maritime adventure) and the limitation of ship owners’ liability. In the absence of insurance, these principles served the function of insurance mostly for ship owners. As commercial marine insura…

Effective goal setting : productivity skills

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Practical application of RCM to local authority housing: a pilot study

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Predicting the effects of city logistics schemes

City logistics aims globally to optimize logistics systems within an urban area by considering the costs and benefits of schemes to the public and private sectors alike. Private shippers and freight operators aim to reduce their freight costs, while the community attempts to alleviate traffic congestion and environmenta problems. City logistics initiatives attempt to minimize the total costs of…

Governing for innovation in horizontal service cooperations

The purpose of this study is to provide insights into the role of governance mechanisms in fostering innovativeness in horizontal service cooperations.

From task-based to competency-based : a typology and process supporting a cri…

Organizational effectiveness today depends largely on the ability to activate, share and transform the intellectual capital of the company into sustainable and difficult-to-imitate competitive advantage. This paper seeks to develop a competency typology that integrates previous definitions and frameworks from the literature and to propose a methodology for identifying competencies to aid the …

International Leadership Journal

The purpose of this article is to suggest a diversity model that can benefit both leaders and members across diverse workplaces. The model incorporates the aspects of information heterogeneity, symbiosis, e-leadership, mentorship, leader-member relationship quality, experiential learning, and cultural intelligence. It creates leadership opportunities for leader-member diversity development prog…

Working effectively with your boss

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What does “corporate governance” actually mean?

This paper aims to develop a framework of connotative meanings afforded to the term “corporate governance”.

The mediating effect of logistics integration on supply chain performance A m…

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of individual logistics-related factors, namely, supplier involvement (SI), length of supplier relationship (LSR), use of information technology (IT), and logistics integration (LI) on a firm’s supply chain performance (SCP) and test for the mediating effect of LI in a multi-country survey conducted in Brazil, Korea and India. The paper also …

Gripen: with focus on availability performance and life support cost over the…

Describes how the terms system effectiveness from a logistics perspective and life cycle cost effectiveness were designed into the Gripen combat aircraft and how they are now being taken care of in the operational phase. Notes that in the early concept phase, there was focus on availability performance and life support cost. To ensure future operational and support cost the contract between the…

The moderating effect of logistics information systems on interorganizational…

The aim of this research is to verify the moderating effect of logistics information systems (LIS) on inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) and performance. To achieve this aim, this research s pulled out the definitions of the variables from prior research and looked at the relationships between them. The population is the Korean shipping and logistics firms in the Republic of Korea, and a …

Effects of switching costs on customer loyalty in the liner shipping industry

In the liner shipping industry, controlling switching costs (SCs) is an important strategy for maintaining customer loyalty (CL). This study proposes a research model comprising four constructs and six hypotheses to examine how SCs helps prevent customers from switching their freight loads from one carrier to the other. Moreover, a submodel is also proposed and tested by two sample sets, separa…

Spillover effects of a firm's relationship marketing orientation in the logis…

The central tenet of this paper is that a firm's efforts to nurture a long-term relationship with a third-party logistics (3PLs) will be influenced by its strategic orientation toward its own customers. The purpose of this paper is to propose that there will be a spillover effect of a firm's relationship marketing orientation (RMO) toward its customers on the nature of a firm's relationship wit…

Leader succession and effectiveness in team sport. A critical review of the c…

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the part of the leader succession literature which is based on coach turnover in sport teams. The aim of this paper is to assess the state of the art and the relevance of this literature for sport management and further research.

Inventory record inaccuracy in supply chains: the role of workers’ behavior

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of inventory record inaccuracy due to behavioral aspects of workers on the order and inventory variance amplification.

Exploring information sharing in the extended supply chain: an interdependenc…

This paper aims to empirically explore demand-related information sharing in the extended supply chain.

Assessing the effectiveness of business consulting in operations development …

The purpose of this paper is to address the question of the effectiveness of business consultants in operations development projects. It does this by analysing the results of collaboration between a multinational firm and business consultants who applied the theory of constraints to a series of development projects.

An integrated framework for outsourcing risk management

The purpose of this paper is to present a generic framework to assess and simulate outsourcing risks in the supply chain.

The logistic, two-sex, age-structured population model

In this paper,we introduce the logistic effect into the two-sex population model introduced by Hoppensteadt. We address the problem of existence and uniqueness of continuous and classical solutions. We first give sufficient conditions for a unique continuous solution to exist locally and also globally. Next, the existence of classical solutions is established under some mild assumptions on the …