This articles analyzes the growth and practice of intellectual capital and competitive intelligence, two industry practices that have received increasing attention over the last decade. Related in their conceptual structure, the two fields also interact in terms of the benefits and costs of...

Three major trends have come together raising the stakes for firms seeing to compete in the new economy. First, knowledge management poses the idea that every organization holds knowledge in the minds of its personnel that can be identified, collected and managed for competitive advantage....

An inland container port is an intermodal terminal facility that handles containerized shipments at a site away from a seaport(s). Such facility is typically linked to a deep water port by highways and rail, and operates as a container transfer point between different transportation modes. The...

Rapid growth in global incomes and the world’s affluent population, coupled with changing consumer tastes and frequent shocks to food supplies, places unprecedented pressures on the world’s food demand and supply balance, and by extension, the worldwide “cold-chain” food transportation...

We are entering a period of dynamic and fundamental change in the transportation and logistics industry. The communication and collaborative aspects of the Internet are changing the way firms develop their logistics strategies, processes and systems. Internet and digital technologies help...