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Bargaining Chains (Long Version)
Lovejoy, William S. - 2010
We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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Frameworks for the management of cross-cultural communication and business performance in the globalizing economy: a professional service TNC case study in Indonesia
Singleton, Helen Caroline Mackay - 2002
Globalization increases the integration and interdependence of international, national and local business and … presents management with universal and particular paradoxes mediated through diverse contextual micro communication practices … economic, political, and cultural societal concerns for the development of more responsive ethical and sustainable management …
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Internet Business Practices Across the Globe: Lessons from Emerging Economies
Melville, Nigel P. - 2008
Firms in emerging economies are rapidly becoming formidable competitors to long-established industry leaders from developed economies. In some cases, emerging-economy firms are acquiring developed-economy firms, such as the recent acquisitions of Jaguar by Tata Motors and Gateway by Acer. Aside...
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The Impact of Globalization on Inventory and Financial Performance: A Firm-Level and Industry-Level Analysis
Han, Chaodong - 2009
indirectly through inventory management. Globalization is further examined by a two-dimensional measure: global intensity and … management literature by providing a two-dimensional measure of globalization: foreign market penetration (<italic …This dissertation investigates how globalization affects inventory and financial performance from both firm and …
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Collaboration and Engagement Throughout The Supply Chain : The Role of Government
Charles, Michael B.; Hampson, Keith D.; Ryan, Neal - 2006
Collaboration is acknowledged as a key to continued growth in the Australian construction industry. Government, as a major industry client, has an important role to play with respect to fostering collaboration and ensuring the global competitiveness of the industry. The paper draws upon data...
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Negotiation, trust and experience management in e-supply chains
Finnie, Gavin; Sun, Zhaohao - 2007
This chapter reviews fundamentals of e-supply chain management and examines the transformation from the traditional … supply chains to the e-supply chains (e-SC). This chapter applies experience management (EM) and experience-based reasoning … which will impact supply chain management. …
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Co-innovation: what are the success factors?
Bremmers, Harry J.; Sabidussi, Anna - 2009
The problem we address in this paper is that in projects focusing on public-private cooperation to stimulate innovation in theNetherlands, initiatives often lack continuation after the study-phase. We extracted possible influencing variables from business and (transaction)cost economic...
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What is the structure of the coffee market: Can the real poor benefit from the coffee trade?
Pokorna, I.; Smutka, Lubos - 2010
This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the international coffee trade. Because coffee belongs to the cash crops we have focus on the production. We have analysed the structure of the trade concerning the green (not roasted) coffee, roasted...
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Competitive performance of global deciduous fruit supply chains: South Africa versus Chile
Mashabela, T.E.; Vink, Nick - 2008
The South African deciduous fruit industry has experienced difficulties in the past few years. Most deciduous fruit producers have suffered from increased globalisation of markets; trade liberalisation; deregulation of the industry; advances in information technology; changes in consumer...
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A P2P collaborative RFID data cleaning model
Peng, X; Ji, Z; Luo, Z; Wong, EC; Tan, CJ - 2008
RFID emerges to be one of the key technologies to modernize Logistics and supply chain management. In a typical RFID …
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