With the growing importance of logistics to the economies of Hong Kong and China, logistics information systems (LIS) are becoming essential tools for companies in Hong Kong and China to successfully compete in a global market. However, little empirical research has been conducted to study the...

Supply chain management (SCM) has been considered as the most popular operations strategy for improving organizational competitiveness in the twenty-first century. In the early 1990s, agile manufacturing (AM) gained momentum and received due attention from both researchers and practitioners. In...

Greening the supply chain is increasingly a concern for many business enterprises and a challenge for logistics management in the 21st century. Of particular concern is how to arouse organizational environmental awareness and put environmental activities into practice in the logistics activities...

This study develops and empirically tests a conceptual framework to investigate the antecedents of dyadic quality performance and its connection with buyer-supplier relationship (BSR) improvement. Drawing on the knowledge-based theory, we argue that BSR improvement is a consequence of dyadic...

The paper investigates the existence of different types of logistics service providers (LSPs) and the relationship of type with service performance. A cluster analysis of survey data from 221 LSPs resulted in the identification of four types of LSPs. A taxonomy was developed that reveals that...