Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether modular product design is an appropriate practice to improve manufacturers’ flexibility performance and cost performance as well as to evaluate whether combined effects of modular product design and delivery performance on flexibility...

Despite the growing popularity of supply chain management (SCM) both among managers and scholars, the efficiency of implementation of SCM has been barely assessed in an analytic way. The purpose of this study is to shift the attention of SCM scholars towards an in-depth investigation of SCM...

Fierce competition and rapid technological progress have considerablyreduced the life cycle length for mobile phones in the last decade. Once a newmobile phone is launched, providers on the market under consideration practice amarkdown strategy. Profits of the providers are generated mainly via...

Österreich ist nachweisliche einer der größten Profiteure der EU-Osterweiterung. Gerade auch Klein- und Mittelbetriebe wagen sich immer öfter über die Grenzen, und das mit großem Erfolg. Wir analysierten deshalb im Detail den Internationalisierungsprozess von elf ausgewählten...