It has been argued that internal and external contextualizations are important aspects of research intended to be relevant, valuable, and engaged in societal progress. In this article, we advocate for scholarship focus on the city and the region as a means to achieve this goal. The notion of...

Purpose: The authors use signaling theory in proposing a conceptual framework that simultaneously incorporates both the mediating effects of corporate reputation (CR) and the moderating effects of marketing capability (MC) into the corporate social responsibility (CSR)–corporate financial...

Demand for parcel delivery services has rapidly increased recently mainly due to the tremendous growth of e-commerce worldwide. Responding to changes in parcel volume with small-sized frequent shipments poses a great challenge to parcel delivery companies, as they need to rationalize the cost of...

This paper proposes a spatial statistical approach to identifying the deprived areas where the access to grocery foods is restricted due to the destitute economic status of the target residents (the poor). For this purpose, the ratio of the expected population demand and observed food supply in...

Recent years have seen considerable changes in the technology of transportation with the development of high-speed rail networks, more fuel-efficient automobiles and aircraft, and the widespread adoption of informatics in disciplines such as traffic management and supply chain logistics. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how cost efficiency and the reliability of a physical distribution network are affected by changes in online shopping demand and to suggest how logistics service providers can respond to such changes. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a...