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About the Guest Editors Ruth Boaden is Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at theManchester School of Management, UMIST and Director of Health Organisations ResearchCentre. Her research interests cover a wide range of areas within health services managementand include work in IT in primary care, electronic health records, reengineering in acute trusts,critical path analysis in cancer care, the management of emergency admissions and bedmanagement.

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Welcome to this penultimate issue for the2002 volume. The issue comprises a variedrange of perspectives contributed by membersof our Editorial Advisory Board. We openwith a piece from Stanley Hollander. Thepiece looks at the past and current retailenvironments and asserts that the goodswhich retailers sell and the way in which thosegoods are sold impact significantly on thecultural fabric and patterns of civil life.

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This is the first of two special issues on ''Qualitative methods and approachesin logistics.'' Logistics, as well as most other business fields, have long beendominated by the use of quantitative methods.In recent years, the use of various qualitative methods and approacheshave been increasing in their usage, although their inclusion in logistics hasalways been present.

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Physical distribution of goods --- Business logistics --- Purchasing --- China.