Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the following questions: Are supply chains global or regional? What are the performance implications for firms? Design/methodology/approach – This paper classifies 183 large North American firms into home‐region oriented, host‐region...

Suggests that globalization is a myth and does not exist in terms of a single world market with free trade. States that instead business is triad‐based, with companies operating on a regional level rather than global. Concludes that due to government regulation of the service sectors, which...

As the nature of international trade and competition changes to reflect an increasingly borderless world, it is apparent that the organization of multinational firms and their relationships with all pertinent stakeholders are changing as well. This is occuring due to the predominant role of...