Purpose - This paper examines the fashion retailers and the factors that influence the patterns and sequence of their internationalization process. Design/methodology/approach - Our analysis covers eight fashion retailers including Mango, Inditex, Gap, Esprit, Benetton, Levi Strauss, Camp;A and...

This paper examines the imbalances in the availability and usage of communication and information technology infrastructure. These imbalances could be broadly attributed to differences in funding, management and technical expertise, exposure and awareness to available technologies, training, and...

In the last two decades, Supply Chain Management (SCM) continues to gain popularity among companies and has been broadly studied by academic researchers. However, with the development of the digital economy, a new paradigm has emerged in this arena: virtual supply chain management (e-SCM). Thus,...

This paper examines the size of inter-regional wage dispersion in Portugal. For this purpose, we estimate a Mincer-type human capital wage equation, including controls for a large number of regions, and calculate a weighted and adjusted standard deviation (WASD) of inter-regional wage...