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This article shows how using foreign trade zones as part of the distribution system can reduce the total product cost of imports into the United States and exports to foreign markets.

The signing of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 has brought a temporary reduction in the rhetoric for or against motor carrier deregulation. Although the final Bill was a long way from totally deregulating the motor carrier industry, it does mark the continuation of a trend toward less regulation by the Federal Government. Since other countries have liberalised or completely removed their transportation regulations, it is reasonable to assume that legislation further reducing motor carrier regulation will be enacted if even a small measure of success can be attributed to The Motor Carrier Act of 1980. The period of uncertainty just before this Bill was signed into law encouraged motor carrier executives to think about life in a deregulated enviroment. This study attempts to examine their conceptions of the changes that would occur and make a comparison with what has actually happened during the 25 years since inter‐state surface transportation was regulated in Australia.

The use of standard time values is advocated as a means of measuring and improving productivity in materials handling. Although handling operations are difficult to schedule and are subject to many variations in order, size and quantity, common and repetitive activities exist which are measurable and controllable. Application of Master Standard Data methods and Method Time Measurement to materials handling operations in a public warehouse have demonstrated that accurate standards can be developed. These standards embrace both physical and cost measures. Although a heavy resource commitment is required to implement these standards and worker attitudes may be negative, adoption of these standards is advocated as a positive action pattern for dealing with typically unprofitable handling operations.

Evaluates the level of purchasing participation in the corporate strategic planning process. Results indicate that the level of participation has increased over the last five years. Discusses possible explanations for this increase.

The study described here used data from a retailer of soft goods and housewares to evaluate various inventory‐grouping methods and to determine an optimal method considering inventory, transportation and consolidation costs. The specific objectives of this article are:

This article focuses on one key aspect of industrial buying behaviour, namely the buying process itself. Using a common questionnaire, a large sample of respondents in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US were interviewed by mail from two sectors, the paper and pulp and chemical and allied products industries. The similarity of results between the different industries and the countries — as well as similarities between this and previous surveys in the UK and US — allows generalisations to be made about the respective involvement of corporate departments in the purchase process for equipment, materials and components.

The objective of this research was to explore the question, “Who is involved in the various phases of the organizational buying process?” To provide a framework for analysis, a BUYGRID model was modified so that the degree of participation of three levels of organizations could be examined in each buy phase for both a new‐task and a modified rebuy situation for the purchase of a computer software package. The BUYGRID model was modified to introduce a “negotiation loop,” a phase that has not traditionally been included as a buy phase. The results reveal that top management and middle management are significantly more involved than the operations group in six of the phases of the buying process, including the negotiation phase.

Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

In Senegal, the government has encouraged private investment in agriculture and biofuel production since the 2000s, generating several attempted or effective large-scale land acquisitions by domestic and international investors. In reaction to these projects, local groups of opponents have joined forces with national peasant organizations, civil society associations, and think tanks to resist perceived land grabs. This article examines the emergence of this social movement and explains why anti-land grabs campaigns were successful in halting some projects, but not successful in others. I argue that four main factors are at play: a strong mobilization of local populations measured by group cohesion and level of determination; the assistance of national and international NGOs in scaling up protests beyond the local level; the capacity of opponents to harness the support of influential elites and decision-makers; and the legal status of the land under contention. This paper draws on an analysis of secondary data, qualitative interviews, and field observations carried out in Senegal for several months from 2013 to 2018.