This article is about managing industrial buyer‐supplier relations as seen from the customer perspective. Two successful examples of supplier network management are described, and the limits to broader applicability of these supply management principles discussed. Next the focus is on managing the dyadic relation. Contributions from four of the most influential groups of researchers on the subject are overviewed. Empirical findings from a case study from industry are presented, leading to a short conceptual presentation of an alternative supply management approach. The empirical contribution comes from two case studies carried out at the Danish industrial company Danfoss Drives, which produces frequency converters and is a division of the Danfoss industrial corporation. One case study is about the characteristics of a supplier network supplying aluminum components to Danfoss Drives. The other is about the evolution of one of the industrial buyer‐supplier relations in the aluminum network – between Danfoss Drives and a supplier of extruded aluminum components.

Managing industrial buyer-supplier relations - the case of attractiveness

Recently published in John Benjamins’s Studies in Corpus Linguistics series, Patterns and Meaning in Discourse is an interdisciplinary text that introduces ways to utilise corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies and, for seasoned corpus linguists, acts as a reminder of the expanding number of non-linguistic fields in which corpus techniques have been put to use. Follow up to Alan Partington’s Patterns and Meanings (1998), a volume that mixed theoretical discussion with practical demonstrations of corpus technology in linguistics and language teaching, this work sees Partington joined by Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor, who reference research from a variety of disciplines that have benefited from corpus studies in the intervening 15 years, a period in which Partington himself utilized corpora beyond ‘linguistics’ towards paralinguistic, political and social issues (e.g. Partington, 2006; Partington and Taylor, 2010) Duguid’s research in diachronic studies and newspaper analysis inform the latter stages of the text, while Taylor’s research on identity representation studies and the construction of politeness combine to result in an authorship trio with extensive research in corpus-assisted discourse studies. “There is no limit to the sorts of discourse types CADS can take an interest in (p. 330)”.

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Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)

From a representative survey of 2,000 individuals, we study whether consumption of music through streaming services, like Spotify or YouTube, is a substitute or a complement to physical music consumption modes, such as CDs and live music. Controlling for the taste for music, various socio-demographic characteristics and the usual determinants of music consumption either offline (radio, TV, friends/relatives) or online (online recommendations, social networks), our results show that free music streaming (where the consumer does not possess the music but only has access to it) has no significant effect on CD sales and affects positively live music attendance, but only for national or international artists who are more likely to be available on streaming services.

On the complementarity between online and offline music consumption: the case of free streaming

Research topics and trends in the maritime transport: A structural topic model

Arctic shipping risk management: A bibliometric analysis and a systematic review of risk influencing factors of navigational accidents

Port marketing from a multidisciplinary perspective: A systematic literature review and lexicometric analysis

Changes in the climatic conditions in the Arctic are opening new trading routes (Northern Sea Route & North West Passage) in this area. There is a growing importance of this theme in the conversation amongst transportation scholars. Indeed, the academic conversation about Arctic transportation is becoming a field of research in itself. The aim of this study is to look at this conversation and provide a state-of-the-art of Arctic transportation systems. The investigation is based on a systematic literature review of peer reviewed articles dealing with transportation and the Arctic. The corpus composed of 386 articles about Arctic transportation is studied from a textometric perspective and compared with professional press to identify gaps between concerns of professionals and scholars’ research. Results show a growing body of research with a strong node of experts. Their research covers operations and sustainable development of shipping and port activities along the Arctic routes. We also identify five major areas for further investigation: the tactical perspective and management approach of issues in the field, risk management in general, logistic systems to access to the Arctic routes, major clustering projects development in the area and management of specific fleets required by the extreme conditions.

Transportation systems in the Arctic: A systematic literature review using textometry

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107210

The psychological reassurance effect of mobile tracing apps in Covid-19 Era

La consommation musicale est un systeme mettant en jeu des artistes, des consommateurs, des prescripteurs qui gravitent autour d’un point commun : les classements musicaux. Cette recherche analyse les variations de trois classements : les ventes physiques, numeriques et le telechargement illegal. Une analyse empirique longitudinale basee sur 7 920 observations permet de montrer que les differents classements sont tous aussi stables les uns que les autres, cependant la duree de vie des artistes n’est pas la meme en fonction du classement considere.

Evolution de la consommation musicale : vers un top 50 2.0

The concept of identity is very important in consumer behavior. It is considered as a predictor of behaviors. With a digital sociocultural context, a new perspective emerges in the marketing literature: the digital identity. With a qualitative study, we find four dimensions to define the construct (the multiplication of Self, the expression of the Self, the virtual sociality, the virtual reputation). Then we generate items. After a content validity with four experts, we conducted a quantitative study. By combining a principal component analysis (with a sample of 468 respondents) and a confirmatory factor analysis (524 respondents), we tested our scale with structural equation methods. The four dimensions model reveals satisfactory psychometric properties.

Romain Sohier

Papers

Port marketing from a multidisciplinary perspective: A systematic literature review and lexicometric analysis

Transportation systems in the Arctic: A systematic literature review using textometry

The psychological reassurance effect of mobile tracing apps in Covid-19 Era

Evolution de la consommation musicale : vers un top 50 2.0

Proposal of a Digital Identity Scale