Search Results - subject:"Global supply chain"

Building Resilient Supply Chains against Natural Disasters: The Cases of Japan and Thailand

Abe, Masato; Ye, Linghe - In: Global Business Review 14 (2013) 4, pp. 567-586

Emerging global supply chains not only increased efficiency in production and delivery but also natural-disaster risks. Based on two recent major natural disasters in Japan and Thailand, this article discusses the increasing natural disaster risks due to the development of global supply chains...

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Supply chain lessons from the catastrophic natural disaster in Japan

Park, YoungWon; Hong, Paul; Roh, James Jungbae - In: Business Horizons 56 (2013) 1, pp. 75-85

While supply chain management has been approached from a variety of perspectives, the role of the global supply chain …

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Customer Enquiry Management in global supply chains: A comparative multi-case study analysis

Zorzini, Marta; Stevenson, Mark; Hendry, Linda C. - In: European Management Journal 30 (2012) 2, pp. 121-140

The Customer Enquiry Management (CEM) process is of strategic importance to non-Make-To-Stock companies but few empirical studies have explored the CEM practices adopted by firms in practice. A study on the Italian capital goods sector by Zorzini, Hendry, Stevenson, and Pozzetti (2008) provides...

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Three new business models for “the open firm”

Purdy, Mark; Robinson, Matthew C.; Wei, Kuangyi - In: Strategy & Leadership 40 (2012) 6, pp. 36-41

Purpose – The authors found that as more firms participate in open business ecosystems, the borders between an individual firm and its stakeholders – customers, suppliers, workers, partners and innovators – have become much more permeable and reconfigurable. This paper aims to address this...

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An empirical analysis of East Asian computer and electronic goods exports

Thorbecke, Willem - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 16 (2011) 4, pp. 644-657

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An integrated system of activity-based quality optimisation and economic incentive schemes for a global supply chain

Hung, Shih-jieh - In: International journal of production research 49 (2011) 22/24, pp. 7337-7359

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Challenges of sustainable environmental programs of foreign multinational enterprises in China

Lai‐Ling Lam, Maria - In: Management Research Review 34 (2011) 11, pp. 1153-1168

code of conducts listed in their CSR programs and to enable the entire global supply chain to fulfill the international … performance of their Chinese suppliers to be up to the CSR standards in the global supply chain. …

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"Marketing managers" in the context of global supply chains: Functional versus multiple IQ competencies

Richey, Glenn; Harvey, Michael; Moeller, Miriam - 2010

purpose of this article is to expand our view in terms of criteria that may be used as it relates to global supply chain … norms, relationship marketing, networking, and communications. We propose that global supply chain managers need all nine … managers. We present a nine-base typology to assist researchers and managers in assessing the true dynamics of global supply …

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China and Central and Eastern European Countries: Regional Networks, Global Supply C

Fung, K. C.; Li, Ke - In: Journal of Economic Integration 24 (2009), pp. 476-504

China has become leading recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI). Meanwhile, an increasing share of global FDI is going to many Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). What is the relationship between inward FDI of China and the CEECs? We conceptualize the relationship according to...

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Selecting suppliers in the automotive industry: comparing international logistics costs

Rubesch, Edward; Banomyong, Ruth - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 17 (2005) 1, pp. 61-69

Maquiladoras operations along the Mexico‐US border are an oft‐studied example of a lean supply chain strategy that allows US manufacturers to benefit from lower labour costs in Mexico while being able to supply to assembly plants in the industrial US Midwest, with a minimum of safety stock....

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