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manufacturers of the automotive industry located in Mexico. Findings – Results suggest that basic and widely used forms of supplier … operating in Mexico. Practical implications – When designing supplier development activities, buying firms need to take into …
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employed to document the nature of the automotive industry in Mexico and the establishment processes of two Swedish … Volvo in both Mexico and Sweden. Findings – Management of firms that operate or intend to operate in the Mexican market and …
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Purpose – The principal objective of this paper is to expand the scope of legitimacy theory (LT) through a detailed analysis of the links that exist between the legitimising strategies of firms and the characteristics of the political environment in which they are developed....
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Maquiladoras operations along the Mexico‐US border are an oft‐studied example of a lean supply chain strategy that … allows US manufacturers to benefit from lower labour costs in Mexico while being able to supply to assembly plants in the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the nature and the evolution of manufacturer–supplier relationships in Thailand's automobile industry and to identify the factors that influence the evolution of these relationships. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on case...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand benefits and problems with different approaches to benchmarking environmental performance in manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach – This paper shares the experience of a research program developing environmental benchmarking...
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Purpose – To provide the reader with an appreciation of the present trends in the UK automotive supply industry as they affect the first and second tier supply chain and aims to give researchers an insight into the complex interaction between suppliers and their customers....
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relevance of the concept of supply chain performance in developing countries. The research also attempts to identify performance measure sets for supply chain performance in the context of a developing nation....
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework for benchmarking implementation in small medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) taking into consideration their characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins with the review on the definition of SME and a...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a product variety multi‐market study in the auto industry and to conduct a benchmarking analysis of the practical findings against the theoretical ones obtained in a European Community Research Project (Intelligent Logistics for Innovative...
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