Provides a rationale for looking at logistics and cultural diversity from a global “intercultural” perspective, and proposes this view as a potential tool for sensitizing logistics managers to cross‐ concerns. Concludes that any firm which embraces this concept by understanding cultural differences and going beyond cultural boundaries will reap increased organizational performance.
Since the previous paper of us (Song & Lee, 2007), Korean ports, like others in the region and world, have experienced a number of challenges, which have driven the ports to make either a slight adjustment or a substantial re-organisation in terms of their governance structure. This paper aims to examine such drivers and subsequent changes taken place in Korea since 2007. This line of analysis …
Software organisations have been experiencing software development failures since the start of software development. These failures include among others abandoned and runaway projects, cost overruns, and low quality software. One of the major causes of software development failure is the inability of software organisations to learn from past mistakes. Many intervention strategies have been trie…
Discusses a recent practical experience of reconfiguring a logistics system in Europe. Begins by outlining the changing market boundaries and asserts that, whilst the trend is towards global manufacturing and a simplification of the supply chain and standardization of products conflicts are arising with customers who want more tailor-made products. In the light of this changing environment and…