Purpose – This paper aims to explore the effect of e‐marketplace on the supply chain's performance under the markdown policy. Profit and risk analyses are both conducted and channel coordination issues are examined. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a markdown policy supply...

Purpose – The increasing “globalisation” and complexity of construction design implies that the project team may involve subcontractors in the construction supply chain from widely distributed geographic areas. Thus communication is a vital process for the design. The aim of the present...

Purpose – This research is designed to explore Chinese customers' wine purchasing behaviours and to investigate the effect of country‐of‐origin (COO) information on their wine evaluations. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from the shopping malls both in Shanghai and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate China's import‐demand function for steel products within the context of globalisation. Design/methodology/approach – The research used the monthly data for the period 1996‐2004 and a cointegration procedure is applied in the estimation....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate China's import-demand function for steel products within the context of globalisation. Design/methodology/approach – The research used the monthly data for the period 1996-2004 and a cointegration procedure is applied in the estimation....