Purpose Sustainability in supply chain is gaining attention in recent years due to environmental concern, enforced legislation, green issues, social responsibility, etc. Sustainable supply chain (SSC) has revolved around the various dimensions including economy, environment and societal factors...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that affect the stability of interfirm trading ties in China's transitional economy. In particular, the paper explores whether the propensity to engage in repeat transactions with past partners is attributable to rational choice...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to exhibit the influencing factors on and the process of internationalization with regard to Chinese automobile companies. Design/methodology/approach – The author adopts an explorative approach to investigate the 12 major Chinese automobile...

Purpose – To examine how the construction of benchmarks influences the discourse of national productivity, and hence shed light on the competitive‐interdependent relationship between global capital and domestic labour. Design/methodology/approach – A study of a government inquiry into the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate recent labor unrest in China's automobile industry and the implications for the debate on the future of the country's labor relations and cost competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach – Using data between 1999 and 2007, the authors...

The current obsession with globalization and technological change has given rise to a new school of management, the revolutionary school. This school uses language appropriated from the political concept of revolution and argues that the key role of management is the transformation of their...

Purpose – The paper aims to research the mechanics of voluntary export restraints (VERs). It first develops a comprehensive VER research agenda, subsequently covering a 1991 VER between the European Union (EU) and Japan that established “voluntary” quotas on Japanese cars until 1999....

Purpose – To examine customers' readiness for mass‐customised products in two European countries, Turkey and the UK. Design/methodology/approach – Examines the demand side of the market and begins to explore whether mass‐customisation can be implemented as an international product...

Purpose – To examine the reasons why Renault of France and Nissan of Japan entered into a merger. Over the past decade the automotive industry has been subject to a spate of merges and take‐overs which not only brought about a considerable degree of consolidation, which made it increasingly...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate insights into cross‐cultural conflict, identity and values amongst selected managers within a South African management context. It aims to increase the understanding of these complexities from an academic managerial perspective, thereby...