This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its...

This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors addressing innovative and technology-based approaches for logistics and supply chains. They present business models and investment options for enhanced strategic decision making as well as recent approaches for...

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

Supply Chains mit hohen Absatzrisiken sind gekennzeichnet durch kurze Verkaufszyklen, einen hohen Anteil an Impulsk?ufen, eine schwer prognostizierbare Nachfrage, eine hohe zeitliche und r?umliche Verf?gbarkeit der Produkte, lange Durchlaufzeiten und eine hohe Variantenanzahl. Insbesondere...