With supply chains evolving into complex networks of diverse and independent economic entities, supply chain coordination has emerged as a key management capability for improving overall performance of the network. For long term sustainability, it is important that such networks remain stable...

The role of industrial clusters in the industrialization of many emerging economies continues to dominate the debate among policy makers and researchers worldwide. While recent discussions on this debate have focused on knowledge spillovers among participants within clusters, knowledge flows...

This paper addresses the issue of how do domestic incumbent oligopoly firms, which functioned under the institutional conditions of protected markets and pervasive government intervention for a long period adjust to a relatively sudden change in market institutional conditions caused by market...

This note illustrates a recent empirical phenomenon, which warrants a re-examination of the intangible asset theory of multinational enterprises (MNEs). It analyses two case studies of financial services: credit cards and insurance products in a developing economy. The case studies show that in...

Until recently major part of FDI flows had been among developed economies with similar relative factor endowments, income levels and market institutions such as property rights regimes. Consequently, major theoretical streams of FDI in economics could simplify FDI as a substitute for...