The research examines whether centralized supply chain decisionmaking within the firm plays a role in how the firm transforms investments in process research and development (R&D) into financial performance. This transformation includes the process investment - financial performance chain, which...

The research provides a comprehensive review of research on outsourcing from a variety of research domains and traditions. The received perspective on explaining outsourcing of transaction cost economics is supplemented fi rst with the resource-based view of the fi rm and second with the...

The paper researches basis one of the most dynamically developing concepts during past decade - the concept of supply chain management (SCM). It contains developing of the concept during past 20-25 years, preconditions of its developing. Developing of the SCM in context of evolution of the...

The paper represents the first results of an empirical study, conducted on the sample of 208 Russian companies in different industries. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the understanding of current level of strategic maturity in Russian companies in the sphere of supply chain management....

Supply chain management is an effective strategy of building competitive advantages. It attracts attention of the researchers who try to explain the nature of this concept, to find the determinants of its evolution and to examine the perspectives of its development. One of these perspectives is...