This research examines media richness by modeling face-to-face, telephone, and electronic media as one construct and testing its performance implications. The context is the third-party logistics industry, in which a customer firm allows a service provider to assume responsibility for all or...

Determining the antecedents and performance consequences of supply chain integration is a key focus of recent supply chain management research. This study investigates the role of supply chain integration in mediating the effects of product and process modularity strategies on service...

The interorganizational structures necessary to implement and achieve the logistical performance improvements identified in the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) initiative and related supply chain management concepts are difficult to develop. Firms continue to struggle to implement integrated...

This paper summarizes the development and implementation of a model which uses the transportation method of linear programming to analyze multi-commodity networks having milling-in-transit features. The milling-in-transit privilege, which is granted by common carriers on many bulk raw materials,...

This paper describes the theory, development, and application of an optimizing procedure for solving lock box location problems. Such problems have become increasingly important to banks, corporations, and governmental agencies in their quest for more efficient cash management. Extensive...

The passage of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 has created a major change in the banking system of the United States, in that the Federal Reserve began charging for its check clearing and collection services September 1, 1981. The result from the passage...