” based on the demographics and dominant cultural assumptions of the USA fails to address – and may in fact obscure – key … would focus attention on the local demographics, cultural and political differences that make the difference for specific …

This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic … advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm … was found that manufacturing technology policy is significantly ( p <0.05) associated with pioneering business strategy …

manufacturing offshoring (i.e., foreign subsidiaries) on inventory performance and financial performance, using data from … multinational firms and U.S. manufacturing industries. Motivated by the lack of empirical research on inventory management in a … inventory levels. Even though manufacturing offshoring may benefit multinational firms through economies of scale and geographic …