Between 1994 and 2003, two related concerns were in the educational spotlight. The first concern was participation rates of low income students in higher education. The second was the apparent disparity in Internet usage by low income and other disadvantaged individuals, highlighted in the report Falling Through The Net (United States Department of Commerce, 2000). The purpose of this study is to identify the economic factors and demographic attributes that influence participation of low income students in online distance learning courses offered by a Mississippi community college. This study centers on the hypothesis that there is no statistically significant difference between low income and non low income student participation rates in online distance education courses and that the economic factors, other than income, between low income participates and non low income participants will be statistically similar. Survey data collected from analyzed through the use of logistical regression to determine the relationship of demographic and economic factors to the decision to enroll in future online courses. It was found that students who are older and married are less likely to choose to enroll in future online distance learning courses. Students with higher numbers of courses completed and who paid for college with personal funds are more likely to enroll in future online distance learning courses than those with fewer numbers of distance learning hours completed and those who experience less difficulty traveling to campus are less likely to choose to enroll in future distance learning courses.

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Background: The business world is in constant change, which means that businesses must be able to adapt to these changes and constantly improve. The research field on how businesses should achieve a smart material supply is small, which emphasizes the importance of studying how a company can change its production layout to improve its internal logistics. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of the production layout's importance for the material supply and the human aspect in production-related change work. Method: The study has used an abductive, exploratory approach to answer the purpose and the research questions. This means that studies of theories were done in parallel with studies of the empirical material at the case company PEPAB Produktionspartner AB. Theories from the literature and the empirical data have been analyzed and discussed in order to draw conclusions. Findings: The results are a description of the current internal material flow of four representative components and a description of employees´ attitude to change. By mapping the material flow, logistics flow factors and human related factors have been discovered.  Theoretical contribution: When changing the production starting from the logistic factors waiting, unnecessary inventory, unnecessary manufacturing, defects, unnecessary transportations and improperly designed production layout a better logistical flow and better material supply can be achieved. Combining this with a well-planned preparatory work with related training can make a successful change.  Practical contribution: This study contributes practically with a new production layout that enables a better logistical flow. It also emphasizes the importance of a well-thought-out and wellplanned preparatory work to maintain the staff´s sense of participation. / Bakgrund: Företagsvärlden är i konstant förändring vilket betyder att verksamheter måste anpassa sig till dessa förändringar och hela tiden förbättras. Forskningsfältet kring hur verksamheter ska uppnå en smart materialförsörjning är litet, vilket poängterar vikten av att studera hur ett företag kan förändra sin produktionslayout för att förbättra sin interna logistik. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen av produktionslayoutens betydelse för materialförsörjningen samt den mänskliga aspekten i produktionsrelaterat förändringsarbete.  Metod: Studien har använt sig av en abduktiv, explorativ ansats för att besvara syfte och forskningsfrågor. Det betyder att studier av teorier gjorts parallellt med studier av det empiriska materialet på fallföretaget PEPAB Produktionspartner AB. Teorier från litteraturen och det empiriska materialet har analyserats och diskuterats för att slutligen dra slutsatser. Resultat: Resultatet av studien är en nulägesbeskrivning av det nuvarande interna materialflödet av fyra representativa komponenter och en nulägesbeskrivning över anställdas inställning till förändring. Genom kartläggning av materialflödet har logistiska flödesfaktorer och människorelaterade förändringsfaktorer framkommit.      Teoretiskt bidrag: Att vid förändring av produktionen utgå från de logistiska faktorerna väntan, onödig lagerhållning, onödig tillverkning, defekter, onödiga transporter och en felaktigt utformad produktionslayout kan ett bättre logistiskt flöde och en bättre materialförsörjning uppnås. Att kombinera detta med ett välplanerat förarbete med tillhörande utbildning kan leda till att förändringen blir lyckosam. Praktiskt bidrag: Denna studie bidrar praktiskt med en ny produktionslayout som leder till ett bättre logistiskt flöde, den poängterar även vikten av ett genomtänkt och välplanerat förarbete för att upprätthålla personalens känsla av delaktighet.

La recherche souligne, selon une perspective béhavioriste, l’importance grandissante de l’intermédiation logistique à travers le rôle dynamisant du PSL au sein des chaînes logistiques multi-acteurs. En s’éloignant de son métier historique, en l’occurrence la gestion de simples acheminements, le PSL évolue vers des services à plus forte valeur ajoutée, voire de nouveaux métiers, qui transforment en profondeur le fonctionnement de ces chaînes. S’inscrivant dans une logique d’exploration, la recherche participe à enrichir les travaux antérieurs relatifs au PSL, souvent de nature technique, par une approche béhavioriste. Le PSL est d’abord un acteur, doté d’objectifs propres, qui développe un comportement stratégique singulier ; il ne se résume pas à être un simple exécutant opérationnel d’activités issues d’une externalisation voulue par des chargeurs à la recherche d’une minimisation des coûts. Une telle approche, jusque-là peu explorée, permet de mieux saisir le rôle dynamisant du PSL dans les chaînes logistiques multi-acteurs, tout particulièrement dans le contexte français. Il ressort de la recherche que le PSL a acquis un pouvoir suffisant pour en influencer le fonctionnement. Il occupe une position de choix pour capter durablement de la valeur, autrement dit, bénéficier de transfert d’activités, de compétences et de ressources de la part des chargeurs. / The goal of our research is to underline, from a behavioral angle, the increasing importance of logistical intermediation through the LSP’s dynamic role within supply chains. By digressing from its historical profession, the management of simple carriages to be specific, the LSP is moving towards high added value services, even new trades, which deeply transform the chains’ functioning. By falling within an exploratory logic, this research participates in enriching the previous works about LSP, mainly of a technical nature, through a behavioral approach. At first, the LSP is an actor which has his own goals and who develops a singular strategic behavior: it does not amount to be a simple operational performer of activities coming from an outsourcing required by shippers in search of a minimization of the costs. Such an approach, which has not been explored so far, enables a better understanding of the dynamic role of the LSP in supply chains, particularly in the French context. It comes out of the research that the LSP has acquired enough power to influence its functioning. It is rightly placed to get some value durably, in other words, to benefit from transfer of activities, skills and resources from the shippers.

<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p><p>Overtime the execution and control of business activities to meet and even exceed customer satisfac-tion has become an absolute top priority. This is because with an increase in the demand for diverse products and services of quality in unprecedented numbers, there is an automatic injection of complexi-ty into the activities and processes which companies undertake in order to fulfill customer satisfaction. This complexity which could be logistical in nature is usually centered on the provision of quality prod-ucts and services on a timely basis for customer satisfaction. In order to keep this complexity aspect in check while fulfilling customer satisfaction, there is the need to manage the different facets of complex-ity that relate to quality and agility.</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong></p><p>The purpose of this study is to understand the managerial actions on the logistical challenges of quality and agility in a Newspaper Distribution Company.</p><p><strong>Method</strong></p><p>In order to fulfill the purpose, the authors undertook a qualitative-single case study following an induc-tive approach. Interviews were conducted with two managers and these were basically face-to-face in-terviews though we also conducted some of the interviews by phone.</p><p><strong>Findings</strong></p><p>Managing complexity challenges of quality and agility requires the utilization of Total Quality Manage-ment (TQM), Just-in-Time (JIT) and Information flow (IF). Through the utilization of TQM, quality standards are enhanced through continuous improvement and the pursuit of excellence in the activities of the company. JIT as a philosophy helps in the elimination of waste and in the speeding up of processes within a company’s supply chain that result to the timely delivery of goods and services to customers in order to enhance customer satisfaction. Also, Information flow through the aid of diverse technologies such as mobile phones, radio phones, the internet, the World Wide Web, Customer Rela-tionship Management systems, Structured Query Language relational database but also word of mouth transmission have helped in the facilitation of decision making in the company relating to the delivery of quality products and services in an agile or responsive manner for customer satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Practical and Theoretical Implication</strong></p><p>The attainment of the requisites of agility while maintaining delivery quality may not be sufficient to enhance customer satisfaction. The information in the model provides management with a pathway to follow in solving logistical challenges towards enhancing customer satisfaction. The study offers theory development opportunities.</p><p><strong>Originality</strong></p><p>A model of logistical complexity management was designed for the attainment of customer satisfaction.</p>

Introduction Overtime the execution and control of business activities to meet and even exceed customer satisfac-tion has become an absolute top priority. This is because with an increase in the demand for diverse products and services of quality in unprecedented numbers, there is an automatic injection of complexi-ty into the activities and processes which companies undertake in order to fulfill customer satisfaction. This complexity which could be logistical in nature is usually centered on the provision of quality prod-ucts and services on a timely basis for customer satisfaction. In order to keep this complexity aspect in check while fulfilling customer satisfaction, there is the need to manage the different facets of complex-ity that relate to quality and agility. Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand the managerial actions on the logistical challenges of quality and agility in a Newspaper Distribution Company. Method In order to fulfill the purpose, the authors undertook a qualitative-single case study following an induc-tive approach. Interviews were conducted with two managers and these were basically face-to-face in-terviews though we also conducted some of the interviews by phone. Findings Managing complexity challenges of quality and agility requires the utilization of Total Quality Manage-ment (TQM), Just-in-Time (JIT) and Information flow (IF). Through the utilization of TQM, quality standards are enhanced through continuous improvement and the pursuit of excellence in the activities of the company. JIT as a philosophy helps in the elimination of waste and in the speeding up of processes within a company’s supply chain that result to the timely delivery of goods and services to customers in order to enhance customer satisfaction. Also, Information flow through the aid of diverse technologies such as mobile phones, radio phones, the internet, the World Wide Web, Customer Rela-tionship Management systems, Structured Query Language relational database but also word of mouth transmission have helped in the facilitation of decision making in the company relating to the delivery of quality products and services in an agile or responsive manner for customer satisfaction. Practical and Theoretical Implication The attainment of the requisites of agility while maintaining delivery quality may not be sufficient to enhance customer satisfaction. The information in the model provides management with a pathway to follow in solving logistical challenges towards enhancing customer satisfaction. The study offers theory development opportunities. Originality A model of logistical complexity management was designed for the attainment of customer satisfaction.

Disertacija skirta logistinei ekonominių ciklų analizei. Darbo tikslas - vadovaujantis ekonomine logistine teorija atskleisti ir nustatyti ciklinio ekonominio svyravimo priežastis. Darbe atliekama teorinė, logistinė ir empirinė ciklinių ekonominių svyravimų analizė. Įvertinant ekonominės logistinės teorijos nuostatas, patikslinama ekonominio ciklo samprata, parengiamas teorinis logistinis ekonominio ciklo modelis ir logistinis ciklinio ekonominės sistemos svyravimo ir raidos tyrimo modelis. Darbe atskleidžiamos vidutinės trukmės ekonominių ciklų susiformavimą veikiančios giluminės priežastys. Nustatoma inovacinių procesų įtaka rinkos susiformavimui, rinkos talpos uždarumo įtaka rinkos kaitimui, rinkos prisotinimui ir paslėptosios perprodukcijos bei burbulo proceso susiformavimui. Taip pat atskleidžiama visų minėtų procesų ir ekonominių paradoksų (didėjančio pelningumo paradokso ir skolos spąstų paradokso) įtaka ekonominio ciklo formavimuisi ir veikimui. / Dissertation deals with logistical analysis of economic cycles. Aim of the research - to reveal and to determine causes of cyclical economic fluctuations, according to economic logistic theory. Theoretical, logistical and empirical analyses of cyclical economic fluctuations are carried out in the work. Conception of economic cycle is specified. Evaluating provisions of economic logistic theory, two models are created – theoretical logistic economic cycle model and logistic economic system‘s cyclical fluctuation and development research model. In the dissertation the deep causes of economic cycles influencing their formation are revealed. The influence of innovative processes to the market formation, the impact of market capacity limitation to the market heating, saturation, hidden overproduction and to the formation of bubble process are determined. The influence of all the mentioned processes as well as economic paradoxes ((growing profitability paradox and credit trap paradox)) to the formation and working of economic cycle are revealed.

Dissertation deals with logistical analysis of economic cycles. Aim of the research - to reveal and to determine causes of cyclical economic fluctuations, according to economic logistic theory. Theoretical, logistical and empirical analyses of cyclical economic fluctuations are carried out in the work. Conception of economic cycle is specified. Evaluating provisions of economic logistic theory, two models are created – theoretical logistic economic cycle model and logistic economic system‘s cyclical fluctuation and development research model. In the dissertation the deep causes of economic cycles influencing their formation are revealed. The influence of innovative processes to the market formation, the impact of market capacity limitation to the market heating, saturation, hidden overproduction and to the formation of bubble process are determined. The influence of all the mentioned processes as well as economic paradoxes ((growing profitability paradox and credit trap paradox)) to the formation and working of economic cycle are revealed. / Disertacija skirta logistinei ekonominių ciklų analizei. Darbo tikslas - vadovaujantis ekonomine logistine teorija atskleisti ir nustatyti ciklinio ekonominio svyravimo priežastis. Darbe atliekama teorinė, logistinė ir empirinė ciklinių ekonominių svyravimų analizė. Įvertinant ekonominės logistinės teorijos nuostatas, patikslinama ekonominio ciklo samprata, parengiamas teorinis logistinis ekonominio ciklo modelis ir logistinis ciklinio ekonominės sistemos svyravimo ir raidos tyrimo modelis. Darbe atskleidžiamos vidutinės trukmės ekonominių ciklų susiformavimą veikiančios giluminės priežastys. Nustatoma inovacinių procesų įtaka rinkos susiformavimui, rinkos talpos uždarumo įtaka rinkos kaitimui, rinkos prisotinimui ir paslėptosios perprodukcijos bei burbulo proceso susiformavimui. Taip pat atskleidžiama visų minėtų procesų ir ekonominių paradoksų (didėjančio pelningumo paradokso ir skolos spąstų paradokso) įtaka ekonominio ciklo formavimuisi ir veikimui.

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Casernes, ports, hôpitaux, prisons, ou encore sites ferroviaires font l'objet de nombreux projets de reconversion dans les villes européennes. Une part substantielle du renouvellement urbain s'effectue ainsi sur des ‘terrains de l'État'. Cette thèse contribue à expliquer ces restructurations urbaines qui participent également des recompositions de l'État, dans sa dimension matérielle. Elle interroge les raisons et les modalités de la réorganisation de la présence d'un type d'opérateur national, les entreprises ferroviaires, dans l'espace urbain. L'enquête comparative menée sur deux pays (Italie et France) et quatre villes (Milan, Bolzano, Paris et Nantes) identifie deux principaux facteurs explicatifs. D'une part, les gouvernements urbains mettent en cause les modes d'occupation de l'espace urbain par le réseau ferroviaire depuis les années 1970, dans le contexte de leur intervention croissante dans l'aménagement. D'autre part, des logiques et des compétences immobilières se développent au sein des firmes publiques de flux depuis le début des années 1990, dans le contexte de leur autonomisation comptable et de pressions financières accrues. La réorganisation du pouvoir logistique (la capacité à organiser les flux de choses et de personnes) de ce secteur dans les villes s'explique dès lors par l'ajustement des trois ‘conceptions' dominantes des raisons de la reconversion des sites ferroviaires, à savoir : immobilière, urbanistique et industrielle. Cet ajustement s'opère dans des projets d'aménagement et s'effectue différemment en Italie et en France. En Italie, le cadre institutionnel plus lâche qui entoure la cession du domaine ferroviaire donne lieu à des accords différenciés entre opérateurs et gouvernements urbains selon les villes, contrairement au cas français où processus et résultats sont plus homogènes d'une ville à l'autre. Par rapport aux approches existantes sur les relations entre villes et État, le double déplacement proposé dans cette thèse, vers les opérateurs et vers la dimension matérielle de l'État, éclaire de nouvelles relations entre recompositions de l'État et restructurations urbaines / Barracks, ports, hospitals, prisons, railway sites are earmarked for many redevelopment projects in European cities. A substantial part of urban regeneration therefore occurs on ‘State places'. This research contributes to explain such an urban restructuring process that reshapes the material base of the State. It questions the reasons and the modalities of the reorganisation of a specific sector, railway firms, in urban areas. The comparative enquiry carried out two countries (Italy and France) and four cities (Milan, Bolzano Paris and Nantes) distinguishes two main factors. On the one hand, urban governments question the way the railway network has occupied central and pericentral urban areas since the 1970s, in relation to their increasing strategic power in urban development. On the other hand, real estate logics and skills have expanded within theses publicly owned firms since the beginning of the 1990s, due to their greater accounting autonomy and their need to face a rising financial pressure. Since then, the reorganisation of the logistical power (i.e. the capacity to order the flows of things and people) of this sector in cities is explained by the adjustment of three main ‘conceptions' regarding the motives for the redevelopment of urban railway sites: real estate, urban planning, and industrial. This adjustment is carried out through urban redevelopment projects and follows different paths in Italy and France. In Italy, the loose institutional frame regarding railway land handover generates differentiated agreements between operators and urban governments whereas in France processes and outcomes are more homogeneous from one city to another. The double shift from conventional approaches – toward the operator and the material base of the State – sheds light on new relationships between State and urban restructuring