Purpose: Prior studies have argued that multinational firms with dynamic capabilities can reconfigure and upgrade their internal and external resources and adapt to an ever-changing competitive global environment. The impact of home country networks exerting on multinational corporations’...

This paper documents a negative relationship between options trading volume and stock returns. The relationship is remarkably robust and cannot be explained by existing asset-pricing theorems. We find that strategies that require buying stocks with low options trading volume in the past and...

The Global Manufacturing Network (GMN) is a new manufacturing system, which provides great opportunities for local firms in developing countries to acquire knowledge and upgrade capabilities through collaborations in the GMN. This paper hypothesizes that local firm's potential absorptive...

A case study of total process energy-integration in a commercial ammonia plant was performed using a modified pinch analysis. Several tools, including Grid Diagram, Composite Curve (CC), Grand Composite Curve (GCC), Balanced Grand Composite Curve (BGCC) and Splitting Grand Composite Curve...

Purpose The study aims to figure out the impact of supply chain planning (SCP) on innovation performance (IP), the mediating role of agreement on supply chain vision and goals (ASCVG), and the moderated effect of information technology (IT) use with buyers and suppliers....