Identifies three schools of thought within the broad just‐in‐time (JIT) sourcing literature
which are labelled as the “advocate”,“pragmatic” and “sceptic” schools. The former group …

This paper provides a review of recent changes in buyer-supplier relations. We comment on
the apparently changing nature of industrial transactions and the move towards a new …

The characteristics of Engineer to Order (ETO) companies are described in terms of their
markets, products and the internal processes of their organisation. These are set in the …

The reason for this research originates from the time‐and functional dependencies between
firms' activities and resources in supply chains. These dependencies cause vulnerability …

This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts.
Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and …

There has been a considerable rise in discourses concerning trust from a range of academic
disciplines and perspectives. Unfortunately, many of these literatures have talked past …

The aim of this paper is to explore current uses of benchmarking in small‐and medium sized
enterprises SMEs as well as assessing the demand for this practice. A multi‐method …

Employment in the UK is increasingly taking a variety of contractual forms as different
combinations of work time, benefits and entitlements are put together for different groups of …

Public procurement in industrialized nations accounts for a significant share of gross
domestic product; hence it is imperative for local, regional and national economic …

Abstract C REWE L.(1996) Material culture: embedded firms, organizational networks and
the local economic development of a fashion quarter, Reg. Studies 30, 257–272. This paper …