Supply chain flexibility is widely seen as one major response to increasing uncertainty and competition in the … marketplace. Researches and practioners acknowledge the competitive advantage of supply chain flexibility. However, flexibility is … costly. Thus, a match between flexibility and environmental uncertainty seems to be an appropriate option. Empirical research …

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … output and capital growth are more important in explaining the demand for heterogeneous labour than substitution effects … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …