University of Sydney Business School: Recent submissions
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Quality Management in Logistics: A Comparison of Practices between Manufacturing and Retail Companies and Logistics Firms.
Published 2003-06-01In February 2002, the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS), The University of Sydney, initiated a study to investigate world class logistics (WCL) practices in Australia. This research is part of the wider WCL study ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Using Rudyard Kipling to design value chain processes: An application of interactions theory
Published 2007-05-01“I keep Six Honest Serving Men, (They taught me all I know), their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.” Egan (1998) reminds us how important these characters are in their role of ‘life long learning’ ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The value chain approach imposes increased expectations on logistics management
Published 2008-04-01As business organisations move toward network structures, and virtual models replace vertical organisations (or begin to become part of them), it is time to consider the role of logistics management in light of these ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The signs of the times: Imposing a globally signed condition on willingness to pay distributions
Published 2005-07-01A feature of recent developments in choice models that enable estimation of the distribution of willingness to pay (WTP), is that the sign of the distribution can change over the range. Behaviourally this often makes little ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Assessing systematic sources of variation in public transport elasticities: Some comparative warnings
Published 2008-01-01There is an extensive and continually growing body of empirical evidence on the sensitivity of potential and actual users of public transport to fare and service levels. The sources of the evidence are disparate in terms ...Open AccessWorking Paper