Reshaping the Serials Vendor Industry

An Adoption of Vendor Managed Inventory in Thailand Healthcare Industry

The concept of vendor managed inventory (VMI) radically changes a traditional inventory management. With regard to the traditional concept, customers make a replenishment decision. However, the VMI concept is that the responsibility for replenishment process is allocated from the customer to the suppliers. As it requires both trading partner sharing more information; therefore, this contributes...

The Role of Acquisitions in Reshaping Business Capabilities in the International Telecommunications Industry

This paper focuses on the relationships between observed processes of post-acquisition activities within four cross-border horizontal acquisitions that occurred in the telecommunications equipment manufacturing sector between 1988 and 1992. We discuss the desirability of such acquisitions from a corporate and social welfare standpoint. We report a detailed survey of the context, post-acquisitio...

Transfer from print to electronic serials

Convergence or coalescence?Information technology and the reshaping of industry boundaries

The impacts of the evolving information technology (IT) on organisations, markets, industries, and economies have been researched intensively. Aspects studied have included productivity, employment, business value, markets, organisation, and industry structure, to name a few. With the increasing availability of panel data spanning longer periods, it is now possible to study the relatively longe...

Structuring Serials Bibliographic Relationships through ID Linking