Bioplastic is an innovative and emerging industry that brings hope as well as ambiguity from materials sourcing to end life management. Circular economy (CE) which is to decouple economic growth from a carbon footprint and maximum utilization of renewable resources, that keep creating pressure...

The centrality of consumer's preferences and their changing nature force companies to constantly revise their procurement, manufacturing and distribution decisions, so to maximize their performance, to improve their competitive advantage and customers loyalty. The more effective the supply chain...

Research and development (R&D) activities are fundamental drivers of value creation in today’s technology-based Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs). Seemingly, a successful R&D is a task of innovation processes and development of R&D networks with allied companies. There is a perceived lack of...

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...

A logical strategy to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is to completely isolate everyone for two weeks (the incubation period of the virus). However, such a strategy can have prohibitive economic and social costs and, therefore, will be difficult to implement. At the same time, the current...

The objective of the present study is to explore and better understand how business model innovation and technology trends have in uenced electricity suppliers in the electricity retail market. We investigate how electricity suppliers can create and deliver values to private customers and...

Due to competitive forces, deregulated economies and technological development, strategic alliances have become noteworthy in business. A kind of cooperative business activity without strict contract laws, strategic alliances have dramatically increased in the last decade. They have been...

Strategic management accounting provides financial information and analysis regarding product markets, competitors' costs, cost structures, and monitoring of firm strategy and competitor strategy (Bromwich, 1990). It assists the management team with better strategic decisions and organizational...

Synergistic value integrates insights from the stakeholder theory the resource based view theory and shared value. The stakeholder theory provides opportunities to align business practices with societal expectations and sustainable environmental needs. Businesses ought to reconcile disparate...