Our main purpose is to discuss how prospects for China’s agri-food sector critically depend on the efficiency, commercial orientation, and responsiveness of China’s transportation system and intermediaries in the agri-food value chain. To provide context, we first examine the role that demographics play as a driver of growth and change in China’s agri-food sector and the economy at large. Two m...

Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market: Distastes or Uncertainty? Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos) by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at answering three main questions: Do gay and lesbian people face occupational access constraints and entry wage ...

This paper investigates the relationships between market, learning and brand orientation with competitive advantage and organisational performance in the context of the UK retail industry. The results indicate that competitive advantage contributes to strategic effectiveness and mediates the relationship between learning and brand orientation and strategic effectiveness. No significant relation...

Introduction Over the last decade there has been a growing interest in the market orientation concept (Day, 1992; Grönroos, 1989; Webster, 1988, 1992) and its usefulness in increasing businesses’ economic performance (Jaworski and Kholi, 1993; Narver and Slater, 1990; Reukert 1992). In most studies market orientation is defined as either the adoption of a marketing concept (see Deng and Dart, 1...