Researchers of PolyU’s Shipping Research Centre Dr Christina W. Y. Wong, Dr Lai Kee-hung, Dr Venus Y. H. Lun and Prof. Edwin Cheng have co-authored a paper entitled “A study on the antecedents of supplier commitment in support of logistics operations”. Published in the International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics (Vol. 4, No. 1/ 2012, pp. 5–16), the article has climbed up to Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge’s Hot Papers list within one year.

The paper has shed new light on buyer-supplier relationship in container terminal operations. It addresses the queries of enterprises on factors that nurture and damage supplier commitment. Survey data collected from 358 service providers of a global container terminal operator show that “implicit contract” encourages while “business uncertainty” discourages supplier commitment. Details>>