Inter-organizational collaboration has been touted as the driving force behind successful supply chain management. Nonetheless, numerous examples indicate that before all parties in a supply chain can develop full mutual trust and establish an effective governance mechanism, deviations of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine supply‐side disruptions in a supply chain, and to analyse the effectiveness of two inventory‐based policies for mitigating the impact of supply disruptions: maintaining strategic inventory reserves (the R ‐policy), and using larger orders...

Introduction to Service 4.0 and Customer-Centric Supply Chains -- Role of Big Data in Customer-Centric Service-Based Supply Chains -- Analytics Models for Customer-Centric Service-Based Supply Chains -- Achieving Customer-Centricity Through Data Analytics – Case Study on Women’s Clothing...

The majority of the trading blocs to date are between similar countries, rather than between developed and developing countries. This paper provides a rationale for why trading blocs among similar countries may arise as an equilibrium phenomenon. It develops a model of an asymmetric world...

The effect of FDI from North to South countries on the skill premium of both groups of countries is examined. The lower wage of unskilled labor in the South induces the Northern firms to shift the unskilled labor intensive production processes in the South. FDI occurs in an unskilled labor...