The research provides a comprehensive review of research on outsourcing from a variety of research domains and traditions. The received perspective on explaining outsourcing of transaction cost economics is supplemented fi rst with the resource-based view of the fi rm and second with the...

The article examines the optimal production output decisions problem in case of shift work and import opportunities over finite and infinite horizons in case the firm does not know the exact demand (informational uncertainty of demand). We develop the optimal production output strategy, which...

Supply chain management is an effective strategy of building competitive advantages. It attracts attention of the researchers who try to explain the nature of this concept, to find the determinants of its evolution and to examine the perspectives of its development. One of these perspectives is...