期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT ISSN： 0960-0035 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, HOWARD HOUSE, WAGON LANE, BINGLEY, ENGLAND, W YORKSHIRE, BD16 1WA   出版社网址： http://www.emeraldinsight.com/index.htm 期刊网址： http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijpdlm 影响因子： 2.101(2015年) 1.802(2014年) 1.759(2013年) 1.826 (2012年) 主题范畴： MANAGEMENT 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal           Journal History Founded in 1970, IJPDLM is now in its fifth decade and was previously published as International Journal of Physical Distribution. Follow the Table of Contents link above for previous content.   The International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Provides business practitioners, consultants and academics with leading edge information and discussions of current developments in the field Facilitates the interchange of information among business planners and researchers on a worldwide basis Provides a platform for new thinking on problems and techniques in physical distribution and logistics management IJPDLM'S Mission The International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management aims to be the principal home the world comes to for leading edge research bridging strategic areas of business-to-business management, physical distribution, business logistics, marketing channels, and supply chain management. We strive to achieve this by providing authors with “best in class” service through timeliness and fairness in the review process, inclusiveness, receptivity to different perspectives, and ultimately impact. Key journal audiences Academics teaching and researching in logistics and supply chain management strategy Logistics and supply chain management professionals Business-to-business marketing and distribution academics and professionals Libraries supplying academics, researchers and practitioners Topicality IJPDLM seeks strategically focused, theoretically grounded, empirical and conceptual, quantitative and qualitative, rigorous and relevant, original research studies in logistics, physical distribution and supply chain management operations and associated strategic issues. Topics include, but are not limited to: Customer service and distribution Order processing and inventory management Implementation of supply chain processes Information and communication technology Sourcing and procurement Risk management and security Personnel recruitment and training Sustainability and environmental Collaboration and integration Global supply chain management and network complexity Information and knowledge management Legal, financial and public policy Retailing, channels and business-to-business management Organizational and human resource development Logistics and SCM education The International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management is indexed and abstracted in: ISI: Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition ISI: Social Science Citation Index Scopus Business Source Premier Academic OneFile Business Insights: Essentials ABI/INFORM Complete Research Library Complete Web of Science CSCMP Online Logistics Bibliography Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management & Marketing Instructions to Authors Submissions to International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. 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(For authored entries please refer to book chapter guidelines above) For newspaper articles (authored) Surname, Initials (year), "Article title", Newspaper, date, pages. e.g. Smith, A. (2008), "Money for old rope", Daily News, 21 January, pp. 1, 3-4. For newspaper articles (non-authored) Newspaper (year), "Article title", date, pages. e.g. Daily News (2008), "Small change", 2 February, p. 7. For electronic sources If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed. e.g. Castle, B. (2005), "Introduction to web services for remote portlets", available at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsrp/ (accessed 12 November 2007). Standalone URLs, i.e. without an author or date, should be included either within parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper). Editorial Board Editor Alexander E. Ellinger Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, The University of Alabama, PO Box 870225, 361 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0225, USA aellinge@cba.ua.edu Editorial Assistant Lauren Kiser Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, The University of Alabama, USA ijpdlm@cba.ua.edu Senior Associate Editors Donna Davis University of South Florida, USA donnadavis@usf.edu Mark Johnson Associate Professor of Operations Management, Warwick Business School, UK mark.johnson@wbs.ac.uk Patrik Jonsson Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden patrik.jonsson@chalmers.se Diane Mollenkopf University of Tennesse at Knoxville, USA mollenkopf@utk.edu Maria Jesus Saenz Zaragoza Logistics Centre, Spain mjsaenz@zlc.edu.es Rodney Thomas Texas Tech University, USA rodney.thomas@ttu.edu Regional Editor - Asia Shong-Iee Ivan Su Soochow University, Taiwan (Republic of China) sisu@scu.edu.tw Managing Editor Samantha Thompson sthompson@emeraldinsight.com Publisher Patti Davis pdavis@emeraldinsight.com Editorial Advisory Board Frank Adams, Mississippi State University, USA Jan Albjørn, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Chad W. Autry, University of Tennessee, USA Anu Bask, Aalto University, Denmark Lauren Beitelspacher, Portland State University, USA Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya, University of Sydney, Australia Maria Björklund, Linköping University, Sweden Jennifer Blackhurst, Iowa State University, USA Edgar Blanco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA James H. Bookbinder, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Browne, University of Westminster, UK Christian Busse, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Craig R. Carter, Arizona State University, USA Karen Chapman, Univeristy of Alabama, USA Haozhe Chen, East Carolina University, USA Martin Christopher, Cranfield School of Management, UK David J. Closs, Michigan State University, USA Thomas M. Corsi, University of Maryland, USA Michael R Crum, Iowa State University, USA Alex da Mota Pedrosa, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Marina Dabic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Inga-Lena Darkow, University of Bremen, Germany Patricia J. Daugherty, Michigan State University, USA Jan de Vries, University of Groningen, Netherlands George Deitz, University of Memphis, USA John Dinwoodie, University of Plymouth Business School, UK Joachim Ehrenthal, Log Connect AG, Switzerland Lisa M Ellram, Miami University of Ohio, USA Philip T Evers, University of Maryland, USA Nathalie Fabbe-Costes, University of the Mediterranean, France John Fernie, Heriot Watt University, UK Daniel Flint, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA Helena Forslund, Linnaeus University, Sweden Robert Frankel, University of North Florida, USA Britta Gammelgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Richard N. Germain, University of Louisville, USA Brian Gibson, Auburn University, USA Cristina Gimenez, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain Janet Godsell, Warwick Business School, UK Thomas J Goldsby, The Ohio State University, USA Susan Golicic, Colorado State University, USA Rich Gooner, University of Georgia, USA David B. Grant, University of Hull, UK Scott Grawe, Iowa State University, USA Stanley Griffis, Michigan State University, USA Árni Halldórsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Trond Hammervol, Harstad University College, Norway Evi Hartmann, Freidrich Alexander University, Germany Benjamin Hazen, Auburn University, USA Graham Heaslip, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Remko van Hoek, Cranfield University, UK Juliana Hsuan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Marianne Jahre, BI Norwegian School & Lund University, Norway Lutz Kaufmann, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany Scott B Keller, The University of West Florida, USA Timothy Kiessling, Bond University, Australia A Michael Knemeyer, The Ohio State University, USA Gyöngyi Kovács, Hanken School of Economics, Finland Douglas M Lambert, The Ohio State University, USA Paul Larson, University of Manitoba, Canada John Mangan, Newcastle University, UK Gino Marchet, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alan C McKinnon, Kühne Logistics University, Germany John Mello, Arkansas State University, USA David Menachof, Logistics Institute, Business School, University of Hull, UK Vahid Mirzabeiki, Cranfield University, UK Paul R. Murphy, John Carroll University, USA Dag Naslund, University of North Florida, USA Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University, USA Andreas Norrman, Lund University, Sweden Gilbert Nyaga, Northeastern University, USA Richard Oloruntoba, University of Newcastle, Australia John Ozment, University of Arkansas, USA Photis Panayides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Ely Laureano Pavia, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil Stephen Pettit, Cardiff University, UK Ram Mohan Pisharodi, Oakland University, USA Shashank Rao, Auburn University, USA R. Glenn Richey, Jr, The University of Alabama, USA Dale S Rogers, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Russo, University of Verona, Italy Katrina Savitskie, Savannah State University, USA Peter Schmitz, CSIR Built Environment, South Africa Paola Signori, University of Verona, Italy Mohan Sodhi, Cass Business School, UK Amrik Sohal, Monash University, Australia Dong-Wook Song, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Karen Spens, Hanken School of Economics, Finland Theodore Stank, The University of Tennessee, USA Gunnar Stefansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden James R. Stock, University of South Florida, USA Frank Straube, Berlin University of Technology, Germany Edward Sweeney, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Peter Tatham, Griffith Business School, Australia Mert Tokman, James Madison University, USA Shiri D. Vivek, Eastern Michigan University, USA Douglas Voss, Central Arkansas University, USA Stephan Wagner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Carl Marcus Wallenburg, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany Matt Waller, University of Arkansas, USA Judith Whipple, Michigan State University, USA Andreas Wieland, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Liu Xiaohung, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Zhilin (Forrest) Yang, City of Hong Kong University, People's Republic of China