Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify different types of sourcing strategies applied in the apparel industry, and to explain how various sourcing strategies are related to the apparel firm's characteristics, prerequisites and supplier performance....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the effects of the customer‐supplier relationship and of automatic forecast data communication and registration on the perceived information quality of forecasts. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model and three hypotheses are...

Purpose – The purpose of this data‐based analysis is to report and reflect on the characteristics of the academic discipline concerned with logistics and supply chain management (SCM) as it is conducted in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The paper further...

An empirical advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) taxonomy with three groups was identified from cluster analysis. The analysis was based on a survey of Swedish metal‐working industries and 324 relevant responses were received (response rate of 38 percent). The first group, “the...

Increased attention has been paid to the question of how to build stable and long‐term working relationships between suppliers and dealers. This study proposes a conceptual model including behavioral dimensions of supplier‐dealer relationships and presents hypotheses about how to achieve...

This research examines the importance of a set of underlying variables, such as willingness of the supplier to adapt to the dealer, built‐up relationship bonds, costs of terminating the relationship, level of shared values, formal and informal communication between the participating parties,...