Charistion CPT Naude

Text in English, Afrikaans and GermanC.P.T. Naudé ob diem natalem octogesimum / U. Vogel-Weidemann (pages 1-4) -- Troubled spirits in Persepolis / John Atkinson (pages 5-16) -- Überlegungen zur Herkunft des Ammianus Marcellinus / Pedro Barceló (pages 17-24) -- The Homeric Pandareos : a historical personage? / G. Cipolla (pages 25-28) -- The sources of Appian's Bella civilia for the 80's BC / Richard J. Evans (pages 29-38) -- Die Begin van die Romeinse wêreldheerskappy by Polybius en Livius / Paul Hasse (pages 39-44) -- Young men on the council of Ostia / Marc Kleijwegt (pages 45-62) -- Good rulers and bad : shifting paradigms in Seneca, De clementia 1.8.2-7 / Gottfried Mader (pages 63-72) -- Marc Aurel und die christliche Apokalyptik im zweiten Jahrhundert (Historia Augusta, Vita Marci 13.6) / Klaus Rosen (pages 73-86) -- Preparing to become Roman : the "romanization" of Deiotarus in Cicero / D.B. Saddington (pages 87-98) -- Historia Augusta : the "nomen Antoninorum" theme / Jan Scholtemeijer (pages 99-112) -- Ammianus' Terminus and the accession of Theodosius I / Hagith Sivan (pages 113-120) -- The Plataean Eleutheria and the "Day of the Vow" in South Africa : a historical parallel and the case for historical analogy / Adrian Tronson (pages 121-140

Relationship learning and international customer involvement in new product design: The moderating roles of customer dependence and cultural distance

This study focuses on relationship learning and its implications for international customer involvement during the design stage of the new product development (NPD) process. It utilizes relationship learning capability perspective to investigate the linkages between relationship learning, international customer involvement, and suppliers' performance. We also investigate whether customer dependence and cultural distance moderate the association between (a) relationship learning and international customer involvement and (b) international customer involvement and supplier performance. Using 264 respondents from Chinese manufacturing firms that have international customers, this study identifies that international customer involvement partially mediates the link between relationship learning and supplier performance. Furthermore, customer dependence strengthens, and cultural distance weakens, the effect of relationship learning on international customer involvement. However, only cultural distance negatively moderates the relationship between international customer involvement and supplier performance