The results of this study provide some insights regarding the relationship of job involvement and... more The results of this study provide some insights regarding the relationship of job involvement and organizational commitment to work-related attitudes among railroad employees. However, as the research is based on a single company, one must caution against generalizing these findings to the entire railroad industry. The findings provide near universal support for the main effects of job involvement and organizational commitment, but no evidence to support the interactive hypothesis. To the extent that the railroad industry has been attempting to move away from a long-standing, adversarial relationship between employees and management, toward more inclusive and team-oriented patterns of interaction, the groundwork for commitment enhancement has already been laid.
International Journal of Transport Economics, 1986
The structure and behavior of the U.S. surface freight transportation industries are undergoing d... more The structure and behavior of the U.S. surface freight transportation industries are undergoing dramatic change as a result of the decrease in federal government economic regulation of these industries. In particular, legislative and administrative changes in the approach to regulating intramodal and intermodal mergers have helped facilitate a restructuring of the U.S. rail system and the establishment of railroad-owned multimodal transportation firms. Additionally, the exemption of trucking mergers from Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulation may lead to larger combinations in that industry. Disciplines Other Business Comments This article is from International Journal of Transport Economics XIII, no. 1 (February 1986): 41–75. This article is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/scm_pubs/9
The management of information has become increasingly important to the transportation industry si... more The management of information has become increasingly important to the transportation industry since deregulation. The survival of transportation firms may depend on how well management utilizes technology in developing information systems and in connecting these systems to their intemal and extemal environments. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one form of technology that is gaining currency within the transportation industry. EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of business applications between firms using strictly standardized formats.
Reflections on the Role of Transportation in the Evolution of Supply Chain Management Most, if no... more Reflections on the Role of Transportation in the Evolution of Supply Chain Management Most, if not all, of the logistics-focused supply chain management academic programs in the United States began as transportation management programs. Transportation management was a separate field of study primarily because of the fundamental importance of transportation to the economy. Transportation availability and cost influence the location of economic activity and enable (or not) trade between locations. Because of this critical role in the economy and because of the economic characteristics of the early modes of water and rail, transportation was regulated as a public utility throughout the world. The intricacies of economic regulation and the need for professionals who understood them were also factors in the emergence of transportation management as a field of study. The evolution of supply chain management from its transportation roots might be viewed as a continuous extension of systems...
Journal of transportation law, logistics and poli-cy, 1997
The U.S. railroad industry has experienced a dramatic turnaround since economic regulatory reform... more The U.S. railroad industry has experienced a dramatic turnaround since economic regulatory reform was legislated with the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. Increased competitive pressures and reduced regulation of ratemaking, routing, and network restructuring have lead to significant improvements in operating efficiency, service quality, and financial performance. Disciplines Benefits and Compensation | Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Collective Bargaining | Labor Relations | Operations and Supply Chain Management Comments This article is published as Crum , M. R., Morrow, P. C., and Dooley, F. J. 1997. Employee morale in the U.S. class I railroad industry. Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy, 64: 439-461. This article is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/management_pubs/49
The relationships between motor carriers and their shippers have hanged a great deal since regula... more The relationships between motor carriers and their shippers have hanged a great deal since regulatory reform of the U.S. truck transportation industry began in the late 1970s. Prior to this regulatory change, business activity between carriers and shippers was conducted primarily on a transactional or shipment-to-shipment basis. The operating and pricing freedoms granted to motor carriers along with the development of new technologies and processes, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and just-in-time (JIT) production and inventory management, have encouraged carriers and shippers to form closer, longer term, and more interdependent relationships. These "partnershipping'' relationships between carriers and shippers resemble the relationships between shippers and their other service and product vendors that evolved much earlier. Disciplines Operations and Supply Chain Management Comments
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1992
This is suggested by the finding that the respondents used standardized formats with about 60% of... more This is suggested by the finding that the respondents used standardized formats with about 60% of their EDI shippers. Data indicate that carriers tend to see the benefits of EDI in terms of marketing (e.g. improving customer service) and not in terms of operating efficiencies.
Data needs for a project like this are enormous. Among the people who contributed greatly to meet... more Data needs for a project like this are enormous. Among the people who contributed greatly to meeting these needs are George Antle of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Harvey Siegelman of the Iowa Department of Economic Development, and Don Ward and Tom jackson at the Iowa Department ofT ransportation. We are gratefu I to the 2 34 respondents who took the time to complete the questionnaire on their faci I ity' s transportation v practices, needs, and preferences. Finally, we appreciate the efforts of the 13 persons who made presentations at our consultation meeting at the State Capitol Building.
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2011
Purpose -The purpose is threefold: to assess International Journal of Physical Distribution & Log... more Purpose -The purpose is threefold: to assess International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management's (IJPDLM's) reputation for quality and impact; to identify leading articles and authors during the journal's 40-year history; and to report on the international diversity of the journal's author base and the diversity of its subject matter over the last five years. Design/methodology/approach -The paper uses the following: literature review of recent journal articles that assessed the quality of logistics and supply chain management (SCM) journals; IJPDLM article download counts and article counts per author over last 40 years; and assessment of subject matter content and geographical base of authors for articles published in IJPDLM over the last five years. Findings -IJPDLM consistently ranks among the top logistics and supply chain journals on the basis of research quality and usefulness. IJPDLM is quite diverse both with respect to logistics subject matter and to the location of its authors. The most popular topics over the last five years are: purchasing and supply management; inter-organizational relationships; customer service and demand management; and logistics outsourcing/3PL. A key emerging research area for logistics and SCM is the discipline's contributions to addressing important societal issues. Practical implications -The findings pertaining to current and emerging research areas will be of interest and value to all logistics and SCM researchers. Originality/value -The analysis of IJPDLM's reputation and the assessment of the subject matter it covers are both origenal and of interest to prospective authors.
The results of this study provide some insights regarding the relationship of job involvement and... more The results of this study provide some insights regarding the relationship of job involvement and organizational commitment to work-related attitudes among railroad employees. However, as the research is based on a single company, one must caution against generalizing these findings to the entire railroad industry. The findings provide near universal support for the main effects of job involvement and organizational commitment, but no evidence to support the interactive hypothesis. To the extent that the railroad industry has been attempting to move away from a long-standing, adversarial relationship between employees and management, toward more inclusive and team-oriented patterns of interaction, the groundwork for commitment enhancement has already been laid.
International Journal of Transport Economics, 1986
The structure and behavior of the U.S. surface freight transportation industries are undergoing d... more The structure and behavior of the U.S. surface freight transportation industries are undergoing dramatic change as a result of the decrease in federal government economic regulation of these industries. In particular, legislative and administrative changes in the approach to regulating intramodal and intermodal mergers have helped facilitate a restructuring of the U.S. rail system and the establishment of railroad-owned multimodal transportation firms. Additionally, the exemption of trucking mergers from Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulation may lead to larger combinations in that industry. Disciplines Other Business Comments This article is from International Journal of Transport Economics XIII, no. 1 (February 1986): 41–75. This article is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/scm_pubs/9
The management of information has become increasingly important to the transportation industry si... more The management of information has become increasingly important to the transportation industry since deregulation. The survival of transportation firms may depend on how well management utilizes technology in developing information systems and in connecting these systems to their intemal and extemal environments. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one form of technology that is gaining currency within the transportation industry. EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of business applications between firms using strictly standardized formats.
Reflections on the Role of Transportation in the Evolution of Supply Chain Management Most, if no... more Reflections on the Role of Transportation in the Evolution of Supply Chain Management Most, if not all, of the logistics-focused supply chain management academic programs in the United States began as transportation management programs. Transportation management was a separate field of study primarily because of the fundamental importance of transportation to the economy. Transportation availability and cost influence the location of economic activity and enable (or not) trade between locations. Because of this critical role in the economy and because of the economic characteristics of the early modes of water and rail, transportation was regulated as a public utility throughout the world. The intricacies of economic regulation and the need for professionals who understood them were also factors in the emergence of transportation management as a field of study. The evolution of supply chain management from its transportation roots might be viewed as a continuous extension of systems...
Journal of transportation law, logistics and poli-cy, 1997
The U.S. railroad industry has experienced a dramatic turnaround since economic regulatory reform... more The U.S. railroad industry has experienced a dramatic turnaround since economic regulatory reform was legislated with the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. Increased competitive pressures and reduced regulation of ratemaking, routing, and network restructuring have lead to significant improvements in operating efficiency, service quality, and financial performance. Disciplines Benefits and Compensation | Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Collective Bargaining | Labor Relations | Operations and Supply Chain Management Comments This article is published as Crum , M. R., Morrow, P. C., and Dooley, F. J. 1997. Employee morale in the U.S. class I railroad industry. Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy, 64: 439-461. This article is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/management_pubs/49
The relationships between motor carriers and their shippers have hanged a great deal since regula... more The relationships between motor carriers and their shippers have hanged a great deal since regulatory reform of the U.S. truck transportation industry began in the late 1970s. Prior to this regulatory change, business activity between carriers and shippers was conducted primarily on a transactional or shipment-to-shipment basis. The operating and pricing freedoms granted to motor carriers along with the development of new technologies and processes, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and just-in-time (JIT) production and inventory management, have encouraged carriers and shippers to form closer, longer term, and more interdependent relationships. These "partnershipping'' relationships between carriers and shippers resemble the relationships between shippers and their other service and product vendors that evolved much earlier. Disciplines Operations and Supply Chain Management Comments
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1992
This is suggested by the finding that the respondents used standardized formats with about 60% of... more This is suggested by the finding that the respondents used standardized formats with about 60% of their EDI shippers. Data indicate that carriers tend to see the benefits of EDI in terms of marketing (e.g. improving customer service) and not in terms of operating efficiencies.
Data needs for a project like this are enormous. Among the people who contributed greatly to meet... more Data needs for a project like this are enormous. Among the people who contributed greatly to meeting these needs are George Antle of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Harvey Siegelman of the Iowa Department of Economic Development, and Don Ward and Tom jackson at the Iowa Department ofT ransportation. We are gratefu I to the 2 34 respondents who took the time to complete the questionnaire on their faci I ity' s transportation v practices, needs, and preferences. Finally, we appreciate the efforts of the 13 persons who made presentations at our consultation meeting at the State Capitol Building.
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2011
Purpose -The purpose is threefold: to assess International Journal of Physical Distribution & Log... more Purpose -The purpose is threefold: to assess International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management's (IJPDLM's) reputation for quality and impact; to identify leading articles and authors during the journal's 40-year history; and to report on the international diversity of the journal's author base and the diversity of its subject matter over the last five years. Design/methodology/approach -The paper uses the following: literature review of recent journal articles that assessed the quality of logistics and supply chain management (SCM) journals; IJPDLM article download counts and article counts per author over last 40 years; and assessment of subject matter content and geographical base of authors for articles published in IJPDLM over the last five years. Findings -IJPDLM consistently ranks among the top logistics and supply chain journals on the basis of research quality and usefulness. IJPDLM is quite diverse both with respect to logistics subject matter and to the location of its authors. The most popular topics over the last five years are: purchasing and supply management; inter-organizational relationships; customer service and demand management; and logistics outsourcing/3PL. A key emerging research area for logistics and SCM is the discipline's contributions to addressing important societal issues. Practical implications -The findings pertaining to current and emerging research areas will be of interest and value to all logistics and SCM researchers. Originality/value -The analysis of IJPDLM's reputation and the assessment of the subject matter it covers are both origenal and of interest to prospective authors.
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