Strategic cost management of the E-supply chain is one new concept which integrates three fields: strategic cost management, supply chain management and internet application, and develops one of the most important tools about how to apply E-supply chain to the improvement of the competence in...

Managers would like to understand which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments, and researchers are just beginning to explore this issue. Which strategies are useful and which are not? In a step towards answering this question, we estimate the impacts of several competitive...

Managers would like to understand which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments, and researchers are just beginning to explore this issue. Which strategies are useful and which are not? In a step towards answering this question, we estimate the impacts of several competitive...

When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don't trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch...

In this chapter I discuss the existing models of sequential versus non-sequential processes of firms and I develop the criteria to classify firms into international stages as well as I develop the Externalization Stages Behavioural Model which explains the externalization process of firms

China's external sector has been the engine behind the country's robust economic growth over the past four decades. By 2016, China's total merchandise trade accounted for 16.1% of the world total, compared to 0.6% in 1978 when its economic reforms were initiated. China's rapid trade growth was...

The objective of this article is to develop a common methodological concept of creating the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the determination of a set of key performance indicators for manufacturing type companies. Authors came up with the following conclusions. - Efficient business management...

The link between the social and political environment and the globalization is an area that has been subject to considerable debate yet still open to opportunities for learning, explanation and more effective structured modeling. The salience of this linkage has been rising in importance as more...

The paper is aimed at analysis in the areas of strategic management, competitive position and decision-making in small and medium-sized construction enterprises according to their managers. It presents the results of the survey conducted in Czech Republic and Austria. The results are mutually...

In this chapter we examine the role of the CFO in setting risk management strategy with respect to macroeconomic risk, in particular, and we consider the information requirements for setting a strategy that is consistent with corporate objectives. We argue that macroeconomic risk management...