Benchmarking has a long history in the management world. It first emerged in the private sector as an engineering tool and having passed through different stages of development, is now also a policy-making tool in the public sector. The paper argues that although typologies of benchmarks can be...

Research on the innovation process and its effective management has consistently highlighted a set of themes constituting "good practice". The limitation of such "good practice" is that it relates to what might be termed "steady state" innovation — essentially innovative activity in product...

The salience of the international purchasing office (IPO) in the management of international sourcing activities of multinational corporations (MNCs) has steadily increased, in developed and emerging economies, since the first adoption of this supply chain strategy in the 1980s. The aim of this...