Many companies establish collaborative relationships (CRs) with suppliers either alongside or in preference to purchasing parts through a process of competitive bidding (CB). CRs over flexibilities and options arising mainly from th"looseness" of the contractual relationship. One significant...

Scholars have focused their efforts to explain poor growth and development in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, using arguments based on quality of institutions and geography and the structure and process of resource allocation and...

The provision of outsourcing services creates relationships between knowledge vested with thesupplier and the viability of outsourcing arrangements. Knowledge accumulation by theoutsourcee can reach a level where it poses a market entry or takeover risk to the outsourcer.Knowledge translates...

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Research on causes of underdevelopment traps and economic growth can be traced back to the work of Young (1928), Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and Nurkse (1953). The seminal work of Kormendi and Meguire (1985), Grier and Tullock (1998), Barro (1991), Abramovitz (1986) and Baumol (1986), revived the...

"Web technologies and mobile devices are driving enterprises to embark on a new wave of digitalization that is reshaping business and the global economy. Modes of data analysis in use now enable extreme corporate agility, swift strategic re-focus and fast resource allocation decisions across...