Value Chain Analysis Across Borders: The Case of Australian Red Lentils to Sri Lanka

This research examines the creation and distribution of consumer value in the most important supply chain of lentils between Australia and Sri Lanka. This adopts a value chain analysis approach applied to a case study, using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. Intercept surveys of consumers in Sri Lanka revealed that quality, size, and price as the most important value-creating factors. A very strong communication and relationships triad exists among the trader, indenting agent, and processor, but the flow of information from consumer to producer is weak. Opportunities lie in improved genetics, better-informed growers, and continued production efficiencies.     

供应链金融在农产品电子交易市场的应用前景与作用

农产品电子交易市场参与供应链金融服务,不仅有其独特优势,还有其重要作用,农产品电子交易市场作为供应链金融代理机构角色的存在,有助于形成供应链上企业风险共担的格局,有助于通过协调活动促使各企业保持高度信任的状态,起到改善与增强合作关系、协作效率、供应链完整性的效果。农产品电子交易市场开展供应链金融服务,有利于推动供应链企业之间逐步建立长期战略协同合作关系,平衡供应链上力量不对等的状况,破除信息不对称的危害,改善资源配置扭曲状况,有助于自身的完善、发展、壮大,提高农产品供应链竞争力。     

中国茶叶在日本市场的价格竞争力研究

本文分析了中国茶叶在日本市场的价格走势,在此基础上利用LA-AIS模型对中国茶叶在日本市场的价格竞争力进行了实证分析。结果表明,在日本市场,除斯里兰卡外,中国茶叶的价格竞争力高于其他国家。中国茶叶在日本市场的策略重点是:不断改善产品质量以符合日本市场的准入要求。     

Supply Chain Collaboration,Integration, and Relational Technology: How Complex Operant Resources Increase Performance Outcomes

How firms coordinate efforts to collectively compete as supply chains is a key concern of supply chain management scholars and practitioners. One avenue, the development of collaborative relational capabilities that support supply chain integration, offers promise. However, the effectiveness of collaboration as a supply chain resource has been questioned due to concerns associated with collaborative technologies, and thus prior research has called for a deeper examination of the role that technologies play in facilitating integration. Employing a Service‐Dominant Logic view of hierarchical resources, grounded in Resource Advantage Theory, this research tests a model subsuming relationships between collaboration, integration, and interfirm coordination technologies, and their associated performance outcomes. A sample of 282 supply chain managers from a variety of industries were surveyed, with proposed relationships examined employing structural equation modeling. Test results indicate that collaboration and integration interact to form higher order resources that collectively influence firm performance outcomes through interfirm coordination technologies.     

Doing business in…Sri Lanka

Having a well‐developed human resource base and a relatively well‐developed capital market infrastructure, Sri Lanka offers a liberal and dynamic investment environment. Over the years, macrostability has been achieved and considerable reforms have been implemented, contributing to a healthy economic growth. This article provides useful information on the business environment and is intended to help foreign businessmen and investors to develop a good grasp of essential background knowledge for being successful in Sri Lanka. It reviews the Sri Lankan political structure, climate, and economy. Sri Lanka's infrastructure, legal framework, and sociocultural set‐up, as well as market structure and potential, are also analyzed. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

SriLankan Airlines Offers 50% off on Fares and Packages for Golden Jubilee of China- Sri Lanka relations

SriLankan Airlines is offering an amazing 50% off on airfares from Beijing to Colombo and holiday packages in Sri Lanka, to celebrate 50 years of close relations between China and Sri Lanka.     

CPIT Further Pushing China-Sri Lanka Business Cooperation

In the mid-December, Dong Song-gen, Vice President of CCPIT led a .delegation to visit Sri Lanka. Dur-ing the visit, Mr. Dong met Mr. Kosala, President of Sri Lanka Industrial and Commerce Association and Mr. Peiris, Minister of Trade.     

Economic Roots of Political Conflict: The Case of Sri Lanka

The escalation of political conflicts in many developing countries and their impact on economic development have been topical issues in recent development literature. The overwhelming emphasis on ‘ethnic conflicts’ in the literature has, however, precluded analysts from looking at political conflicts beyond their ethnic dimension, in the wider context of the development process. In particular, because of the preoccupation with ethnic roots as the prime source of these conflicts, reverse causation, running from economic policy to political conflict, has been virtually ignored in the debate. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap through an in‐depth case study of the ‘twin political conflict’ in Sri Lanka – the Tamil separatist war in the North and the Sinhala youth uprising in the South – with emphasis on its economic roots. The findings suggest that fundamental contradictions in the national development policy in the restrictive trade regime of Sri Lanka were at the heart of the country's twin political conflict.     

Exploiting Mobile Technology for Achieving Supply Chain Integration in Indian Retail

For decades supply chain coordination has been subject to research interest, and technology has been seen as an agent that accelerates this process. In developing countries, with far-flung markets and unorganized distribution networks, using technology for improving supply chain performances and accessing information is not an easy task. The research was directed to understand if mobile technology is being used by downstream supply chain partners for information sharing and thus improving supply chain performances. Findings suggest that supply chain integration with suppliers and customers is done through extensive use of mobile networks.     

Public-Sector Accounting and E-Governance in Developing Countries: Case of Sri Lanka

This article analyzes how new public financial management system should address the efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector and the emerging accrual basis accounting with e-governance for greater e-transparency on public-sector accounting in Sri Lanka. Despite the setting up of e-framework in 1983, the Sri Lankan public-sector accountancy environment during the last two decades raises concerns about efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the e-framework. The findings provide evidence of the importance of the economy and efficiency in the usage of public funds to provide more convenient access to government accounting information for citizens in Sri Lanka.     

Information procurement practices of key actors in construction supply chains

This paper presents a survey on the practices associated with the acquisition, use, storage and transfer of information by a sample of professionals (actors) within the construction supply chain. The role of information in construction supply chains witnessed a shift from its passive function in decision-making from the 1990s, to a strategic resource that drives both the processes and competitiveness of companies. This change presents challenges for organisations that participate in the construction supply chain. The way organisations involved in the construction supply chain manage this resource will have direct impact on their competitiveness. This is influenced by the information acquisition, processing, utilisation and transfer practices of their professional staff (actors) involved in the processes of the construction supply chain. The paper presents results from a survey that looks at some aspects of how key actors in the construction supply chain address these information-related issues.     

A NOTE ON TRADE ELASTICITIES IN ASIAN COUNTRIES

This article estimates the price and income elasticities of import and export demands for India, Japan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand using annual time series data. Both price and income elasticities of import demand are found to be in the inelastic range for all five countries. Export demand is found to be price elastic for Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand and price inelastic for India and Sri Lanka. Export demand is found to be income elastic for Japan but not for the other four countries. The Marshall-Lerner-Robinson condition states that a devaluation improves the balance of trade position only if the sum of the absolute values of price elasticity of import demand and the price elasticity of export demand is greater than one. This condition is met for India, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand but not for Sri Lanka.     

Exploring the role played by entrepreneurial self-efficacy among women entrepreneurs in tourism sector

This study aimed to explore how entrepreneurial self-efficacy impacts firms' performance among women entrepreneurs in developing countries in tourism and hospitality industry. Survey data collected from women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka confirmed entrepreneurial self-efficacy is influenced by social media, entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial role models, whereas education and work experience had no influence over entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The mediating behavior of entrepreneurial persistence behavior is confirmed. For entrepreneurship stakeholders, this research revealed a critical factor that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is influenced by social media in digital world of technologies. Moreover, this research provided a validated model of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, enhancing its usage during the adversity or growth stages of business while producing valuable insights to policy makers in developing countries, enhancing women entrepreneurs’ contribution to the economy.     

供应链管理中的采购价值链探析

供应链管理可以分为功能内的协调、功能间的协调和组织间的协调三个维度。采购在供应链中起着十分重要的作用。通过采购价值链的分析可以帮助企业降低成本并获利;采购价值链包括制定年度计划、定义需求、拟定采购策略、评估并选择供货商、取得原料以及管理与供货商的关系等环节。     

The Growing Dominance of China in South Asia: An Indian Perspective

India's economic relations with its neighbors are important for the stable and peaceful development of the South Asian region and for its own security. In a globalized world, economic relations play a major role in deciding political relations and collaboration at multilateral fora. In the context of China's increasing trade and investment relations with India's neighboring countries, the present study examines where and how China has been improving its presence vis-à-vis India in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Further, the study also explores the factors of India's loss of market in its neighboring countries and suggests remedial measures.     

An emerging Asian niche market for exports

The primary aim of this article is to explore the potential of the Australia‐Sri Lanka trade relationship. In achieving this, the business climates of both markets that are considered vital to effective trading are discussed in detail. Thus, the article analyzes, explores, and provides the rationale for tagging Sri Lanka as an emerging niche market for exports. This research article preserves its originality in providing vital analysis and trends in international business between the two countries, which is beneficial not only for potential exporters in the rest of the world, but also for the academics and economic policymakers. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

供应链金融中网络连接对中小企业融资质量的影响研究

近年来,基于供应链网络开展的供应链金融成为中小企业解决融资难的有效途径。文章基于网络视角,构建了中小企业在供应链网络中的强连接与桥连接通过信息分享影响其融资质量的理论模型,通过对255个调研数据进行统计分析发现：中小企业在供应链网络中的强连接和桥连接均对其供应链融资质量具有正向影响;信息分享是中小企业供应链网络连接影响其融资质量的重要内在机制;环境竞争性对中小企业信息分享与其供应链融资质量之间的关系具有正向的调节作用。     

现代流通企业促成产销供应链协同——畅通国民经济大循环的微观基础

现代流通企业对于促进供需互动、产销协同，畅通国民经济大循环具有重要作用。文章采用包含生产、流通两类企业的多案例分析方法，考察流通企业促成上下游主体形成基于供应链的广泛联系与紧密合作，从而共同适应国内外市场环境变化的微观机制。总的来看，新的形势对生产、流通两类企业同时提出了供应链整合的要求，而共赢预期为彼此形成合作动机提供了基础；数字化的现代流通企业主导应用多种新技术、新模式?有效降低了供应链整合的成本和门槛，并在优化产销衔接、促进供需匹配，提升运营管理水平、改善企业品牌形象等方面产生了良好效果，形成了积极的反馈效应。因此，当前应充分发挥现代流通企业的作用，抓住时机打通生产与消费间的堵点，推动新发展格局的构建。     

Dynamics of capital account and current account in Sri Lanka

This paper enquires the dynamics of current account and capital account in Sri Lanka for the period 2001:Q1 to 2016:Q1 and also examines the role of some policy variables such as exchange rate and interest rate in this dynamics. Estimated autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing approach to cointegration followed by error correction representation of the ARDL model have found that current account is caused by capital account and exchange rate, where capital account causes to produce a deficit in current account. In the dynamic adjustment of current account due to exchange rate, an evidence of J-curve phenomenon is noticed. Capital account is neither caused by current account nor by exchange rate but interest rate has a positive impact on it. Robustness of these findings is testified by the vector autoregression model, Wald test of Granger causality followed by an impulse response analysis and a variance decomposition analysis. These analyses, in addition, establish a negative impact of interest rate on current account. With the best of knowledge this is the first study that reveals the dynamics of current and capital account of Sri Lanka. Such a dynamics is critical from the policy perspective. Policy makers should caution before capital account liberalization.     

企业并购中的供应链协同与整合

并购和供应链管理是2 1世纪企业管理的主要发展趋势,如何在企业并购中通过对供应链的重组和整合实现协同效应,对企业获得竞争优势和实现其战略目标具有重要的意义。对企业并购中供应链协同和整合中的相关问题进行探讨,研究企业并购对供应链的影响、供应链协同机会的识别和供应链的整合机制等,这些研究为在企业并购的实践中最大化实现协同效应提供了理论依据和实施借鉴