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Background: A common goal of Humanitarian Organizations (HO’s) is to deliver the services to humanity in a spirit of impartiality and neutrality without any discrimination. HOs primary functions are remained to deal with disasters, to protect human rights, to provide relief services and promote the universal desire for personal and collective safety, security, respect, and dignity without any view...
Background: Current supply chains, which in fact constitute full ecosystems of product trade, change in an invariably dynamic way, requiring permanent supervision and control of the goods flowing through them. One of the aspects enabling constant development of the entire logistics infrastructure is the use of the solutions of the Physical Internet, both in terms of modular transport units and real-time...
Background: To fight against climate change, the EU is committed to the world’s most ambitious climate and energy targets, i.e. CO2 reduction at least 20% by the year 2020 and 80-95% by 2050, in reference to 1990. This paper aims to look at the problem of freight transport emissions’ measurement and management in order to reduce CO2. The focus is on the chemical industry itself. The authors try to...
Background: Purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of ownership concentration on the performance of the firms operating in the financial and logistics sector of Pakistan. Impact of corporate governance practices on performance is under discussion for many years. Ownership structure has a significant effect on the performance of the firms either positively or negatively. Performance of...
Background: The importance of supply chain management has increased, as consumer concerns about food safety and quality have become more important, along with the demands for large amounts of consistent and reliable products. During distribution, food is exposed to various risks, such as inadequate storage or failure to keep a certain temperature, which consequently affects food integrity. This paper...
Background: With annual and integrated reporting becoming a standard practice, companies are disclosing more of their non-financial information to the public. As these corporate narratives are not regulated, they can become quite lengthy, thus, leaving room for impression management. Companies tend to present their performance in an overly positive way, resorting to various impression management strategies,...
Background: The One Belt One Road initiative opens up many development opportunities for Central and Eastern European countries, some related to the possible construction of a logistics center in this area. For Poland, such an investment would also bring many benefits, not only due to infrastructure development, but also through acceleration of economic growth and job creation. In this context, the...
Background: The European strategy for plastics focuses on adjusting the EU regulations to the fulfilment of circular economy tasks. Circular economy is an approach that will soon lead to considerable changes in numerous branches of modern economy. To a large extent, they will also affect the packaging industry. Methods: A particular interest has been attracted by aliphatic polyesters such as polylactide...
Background: Humanitarian organizations (HOs) have funding constraints, and pressure from donors and other stakeholders, on matters of accountability, transparency and efficient utilization of resources. Humanitarian organizations need to learn from the business sector and adopt strategies to address and resolve issues of inefficiency in resource consumption. In the HO sector, logistics and supply...
Background: Recent technology development and the rise of e-commerce activities influenced changes in the logistics field and have “forced” companies to change their approach to logistics. On the other side, we are witnessing new developments in logistics service providers and their transformation. Competitiveness today doesn’t depend only on price but also on customer service and delivery time. This...
Background: The inspiration to undertake research in the field of logistics customer service was formed by the strong relationship between service performance and customer satisfaction, observed within a study of the needs of logistics service providers’ (LSPs) customers. The paper aims to understand which elements of service performance are important to customers purchasing logistics services in...
Background: Over last years the growing tendency towards the use of barcodes can be observed. They are started to be implemented practically in every activity within the supply chain. The paper presents the analysis of the number of participants of GS1 system in regards to the change of number of companies in Poland and the level of the use of various code systems. The aim of this paper was to identify...
Background: In the recent period, one could notice that more and more international companies implementing their strategies based on the concept of risk management. These companies when they evaluate and qualify their suppliers use the requirements of quality management standards, quality assurance standards (in particular sectors), safety and security management standards for supply chain, as well...
Background: The paper deals with production process scheduling problem. In large companies, the decision-making process about operators’ work, machines availability and production flow is a very difficult task, which is often being done by employees. Thus, not always the decision made is optimal in terms of cost, production time, etc. Methods: As a solution, two intelligent methods: Tabu Search and...
Background: Currently, many IT tools are used in every field. Therefore, the management of enterprises want modern IT solutions to also include logistic applications in various and diversified business profiles. It is also related to the minimization of operating costs. The EDI system makes it possible to achieve such goals. For this reason, research was carried out in selected Polish and Russian...
Background: Literature studies and analysis of the situation in business practice indicate the organizational culture as an important determinant that can inhibit or assist in the implementation of adaptive, proactive and proinnovation changes. New situations appearing in the external and internal environment as well as new conditions created by technical and technological progress oblige enterprises...
Background: This study investigates the relationship between CSR (corporate social responsibility) practices and enterprise performance. We have collected the data from 248 different enterprises located in different industrial areas of Karachi, mainly including S.I.T.E industrial area, Federal-B industrial zone, and West Wharf industrial area, Karachi Export processing zone, Bin Qasim industrial zone,...
Background: The following paper was developed to assess maturity levels in regards to sustainable development goals. Highly unstable business environment and opportunities occurring on the market require effective and quick decision making process. It is a challenge to follow such dynamic changes within and outside organization while maintaining sustainable goals. However authors state that this is...
Background: The information technology (IT) is presented in all levels of the supply chain, from the communication with suppliers, through the manufacture process and until the delivery to clients. Moreover, IT has a positive effect on the performance of the supply chain. In this context, it is important for the IT sector to register a positive evolution, in other words it is important that the IT...
Background: The complexity and uncertainty of the modern world encourage companies to use nowadays project management practices. Research of project management maturity allows assessing how well companies are prepared to run projects. The main motivation behind the article was lack of project management maturity assessment on the Polish logistic market. In the article, the authors describe research...
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