Foreword -- About the authors -- About the contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Logistics and supply chain context -- Introduction -- Globalisation and international trade -- Supply chain relationships -- Supply chain strategies -- Case studies -- Logistics and supply chain operations...

"This chapter lays the foundations of the textbook and explains the origins and applications of logistics and supply chain management, as well as giving descriptions of key concepts. A framework for the textbook is developed and this illustrates where each chapter fits in the overall schema of...

The majority of logistics research is primarily populated by quantitative research viewed through a positivist lens. Increasingly, there are calls for logistics research to more frequently employ qualitative methodologies. The trend in management research generally is increasingly to use methods...