Zukunftstechnologien, wie Elektromotoren und Windkraft-Turbinen, enthalten wertvolle selteneMetalle, deren Recycling einen wichtigen Schritt zu einer grünen Kreislaufwirtschaft darstellenwürde. Doch ein Aufbau von Lieferketten für recycelte Metalle ist mit Schwierigkeiten, wiemangelnder...

In this paper, we empirically examine how a supplier firm benefits from supply chain technology spillover in its product invention, and how customer concentration mitigates such a positive effect. Using a panel of approximately 1,670 U.S. technology-intensive supplier firms during the period...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the most influential technologies of the twenty-first century. Today, RFID technology is being applied in a wide array of disciplines in science research and industrial projects. The significant impact of RFID is clearly visible by the rate of...

The mining sector accounts for a substantial share of exports and GDP in some countries, but rarely creates many direct jobs. This paper examines the mining sector using a value chain perspective, looking at both direct and indirect inputs and outputs. It finds that inputs from other sectors, in...

Resource abundance does not always bring sustained economic growth and development. Moreover, the mining sector generally provides little direct employment in the regions where extraction occurs. In an attempt to derive greater benefits from their resource endowments, and increase linkages with...

The article is focused on ESCM - environmentally sustainable supply chain management. The main question is: how can organizations develop a ‘business case’ for valuing the practice? The answer goes far beyond environmental and technical improvements

Every organization needs suppliers and no organization can exist without suppliers. Therefore, the organizations approach to suppliers and the selection of the appropriate supplier, its acquisition processes and policies, and its relationships with suppliers, is of vital importance, both to...

Zukunftstechnologien, wie Elektromotoren und Windkraft-Turbinen, enthalten wertvolle selteneMetalle, deren Recycling einen wichtigen Schritt zu einer grünen Kreislaufwirtschaft darstellenwürde. Doch ein Aufbau von Lieferketten für recycelte Metalle ist mit Schwierigkeiten, wiemangelnder...

This chapter draws on three branches of management studies – corporate strategy, technology strategy, and institutional strategy – in order to develop a framework aimed at analyzing and predicting the nature and structure of GVCs. First, corporate strategy informs how firms shape GVC...