Economics

  2010 MAR 19 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, "This paper examines the impact of supply chain management (SCM) capabilities on the performance of international trade intermediaries (ITIs). SCM capabilities here are defined as supplier management capabilities, customer-focused capabilities and business process capabilities."

  "Research has been undertaken using a study framework that incorporates the role of human capital (HC) in SCM. A survey of 147 ITIs showed that SCM capabilities are associated with performance and that HC moderates this relationship. Interpretation of the research findings is made in the light of the context of the study, which has involved small-sized ITIs and low-to-medium priced products," wrote P.K.O. Fung and colleagues, Hong Kong Polytechnic University ...read more

  2010 MAR 5 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from the United States, "The municipal administration of Dr Ernest Ferroul in the southern French city of Narbonne during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflected the contradictions within the French socialist movement regarding the purpose of socialist municipalities. While frequently proclaiming violent revolutionary intentions, Ferroul primarily concentrated on issues of local improvements and symbolic gestures of worker solidarity. ...read more

  2010 FEB 26 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from the United States, "The urban slum in the less developed world has an overwhelming significance of place for its dwellers: it determines who they are, what they do, where they go, and whom they know. Unlike most Western cities where the different realms of life (residential, work, religious, public, etc.) are spatially segregated, here they are all functionally and spatially integrated. ...read more