Much has been written in recent years about the changes in corporate strategies and industry structures associated with electronic coordination of market activities. This paper considers the advent of electronic market coordination in the home mortgage industry, focusing on Computerized Lean Origination (CL O) systems. Case studies of five CLOs (First Boston’s Shelternet, PRC’s LoanExpress, Ame...

The need to reduce uncertainty and maintain flexibility in today’s competitive environment is increasing. Firms are looking for exchange partners who can fulfill not only price, volume and delivery requirements, but also meet higher-order needs for quality, responsiveness, and innovation. This paper reviews literature in management, economics and IT to identify the choices and challenges firms ...

In the past 20 years a variety of electronic markets have been set-up for the allocation of capacities in road transportation. Although, inefficiencies and cost pressures are high, the electronic markets have not succeeded so far. In this paper we will give an overview of the so-called electronic transportation exchanges and analyze the factors that were involved in the repeated failures. By us...

BACKGROUND Over the past three decades, a limited range of market like mechanisms have been introduced into the hierarchically structured English National Health Service ('NHS'), which is a nationally tax funded, budget limited healthcare system, with access to care for all, producing structures known as a quasi market. Recently, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 ('HSCA') has been enacted, in...

With electronic markets emerging on the Internet, the travel agency has been characterized as the most endangered organization in the travel industry as potential travelers now have the opportunity to bypass intermediaries in the distribution chain. Customers are offered good opportunities for convenient and inexpensive travel bookings on the Internet, but at the same time they face many proble...

the rycroft-malone paper states that co-production relies on ‘authentic’ collaboration as a context for action. our commentary supports and extends this assertion. we suggest that ‘authentic’ co-production involves processes where participants can ‘see’ the difference that they have made within the project and beyond. we provide examples including: the use of design in health projects which see...

3D printing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding method of manufacturing that found numerous applications in healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense industries and in many other areas. In this review, applications in medicine that are revolutionizing the way surgeries are carried out, disrupting prosthesis and implant markets as well as dentistry will be presented. The relatively new fi...

We would like to thank Pollock (1), Frith (2) and Cox (3) for their interesting analyses and suggestions on our article “Morality and markets in the NHS”. A number of important themes arise: the lack of either practicality or morality of a healthcare market or privatisation; the need for values to be supported (where possible) by legislation; and the crucial importance of humanity and compassio...