In spot markets for trading fishes, single-sided auctions are used for clearing the market by virtue of its promptness and simplicity, which are important in dealing with perishable goods. However, in those auctions, sellers cannot participate in price-making process. A standard double auction market collects bids from traders and matches buyers’ higher bids and sellers’ lower bids to find the ...

Logistical planning problems are complicated in practice because planners have to deal with the challenges of demand planning and supply replenishment, while taking into account the issues of (i) inventory perishability and storage charges, (ii) management of backlog and/or lost sales, and (iii) cost saving opportunities due to economies of scale in order replenishment and transportation. It is...

There has been sustained interest in explaining why firms adopt different management accounting practices. This paper applies contingency theory to respond empirically to calls by Gerdin (2005), Tillema (2005) and Chenhall (2007) to increase understanding of factors that explain management accounting sophistication. We examine the impact of a range of potentially contingent variables on a broad...

In the production of perishable goods particular stress is often given to performance indi cators generally less critical in such manufacturing settings as metal cutting or mechan ical electronic assembly For instance in food or biochemical productions a prominent interest of the producer is to reduce the time from distribution to the so called best before end A scheduling problem with a goal o...

Intrinsic characteristics of food products and processes along with growing sustainability concerns lead to the need for decision support tools that can integrate economic considerations with quality preservation and environmental protection in food supply chains. In this study, we develop a multiobjective linear programming (MOLP) model for a generic beef logistics network problem. The objecti...

This paper examines whether providing regular, reliable and unbiased price information via text messages to interested parties results in price dispersion reductions, over and above the effect observed with access to mobile phones. India’s wholesale agriculture markets provide a fertile environment to empirically test this hypothesis. In October 2007, Thomson Reuters introduced Reuters Market L...

The floricultural sector is facing market developments that have forced a redesign of the European logistics network. Via workshops and interviews with key stakeholders the main developments and industry needs are identified. These are then summarised in three central themes that require further investigation, i.e. decision problems (e.g. network design and control), context factors (e.g. deman...

For horticultural commodities in general, the role of marketing for red chili makes an important contribution improving performance commodity farming as a whole considering unique characteristics general such perishability, volumenious, production is seasonal while consumption occurs throughout year. Red from farmers to consumer level, interaction between agencies becomes forming prices. Produc...

Potato tubers are susceptible to wounding during post-harvest processes, leading quality decline, perishability and large economic losses. In this study, the potato cultivar, ‘Longshu No.7′, was foliar-sprayed with 3% chitosan (w/v) three times pre-harvest period after flowering evaluate effect of foliar spraying on suberization processing in wounds harvested tubers. Our results demonstrated th...

-Service is any act or performance that one party offers to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in any ownership. The majorities of the challenges in service marketing arises from the basic characteristics of services like intangibility, heterogeneity, inseparability and perishability and are constantly known as IHIP. These characteristics have been staples of service res...