This study analyses cost stickiness under the dilemma between current profitability and future sales increase. When activity decreases firms are faced to keep profitability adjusting resources, while they should also consider long term consequences and keep slack resources which allow building...

Do supply chain audits have real effects? We focus on the effect of shared auditors in the supply chain on corporate cost stickiness. When a supplier shares auditors with its customers, the shared auditors provide informational advantages for suppliers' managers, thus revising their optimistic...

Firms' strategies reflect their competitive advantages, such as the prospector focuses on innovation and defenders focus on cost efficiency. The differences in strategies' competitive advantages imply different resource management to different magnitude of cost stickiness. This study examined...

Do supply chain audits have real effects? We focus on the effect of shared auditors in the supply chain on corporate cost stickiness. When a supplier shares auditors with its customers, the shared auditors provide informational advantages for suppliers' managers, thus revising their optimistic...