Being responsive is an increasingly important skill for firms in today's global economy; thus firms must be agile. Naturally, it follows that an organization's agility depends on its supply chain being agile. However, achieving supply chain agility is a function of other abilities within the...

Purpose – To gain understanding of value chain (VC) agility in terms of value‐adding processes, this paper seeks to present a VC agility framework and then to develop the involved constructs. Design/methodology/approach – A framework of VC agility and its theoretical underpinnings is...

We analyze strategic relationships between buyers and sellers in markets with switching costs and dynamic uncertainty by investigating the scenario wherein a representative buyer trades with two foreign sellers located in the same foreign country. We show that, under exchange rate uncertainty,...

Motivated by the varied green product line extension strategies implemented by leading manufacturers in several industries (e.g., footwear and other apparel), we consider the price and quality optimization (i.e., product line design) problem of a monopolist selling (at most) two product...

We examine the strategic interplay between a buyer's design decision and the ensuing competition between suppliers in a three-tier closed-loop supply chain setting with significant recycling considerations. The nature of the engineering design decision in our research entails choice of integral...