Multinational corporations (MNCs) have benefited tremendously from free trade in the past few decades in the form of cost reductions, resource advantages, and market expansion. However, the dynamism of international relations and a global recession have rekindled the debate over frictionless...

As policy makers seek to draw lessons from the growth of Chinese manufacturing, we need to better understand the evolving strategies adopted by Chinese manufacturers since the economic reforms of the 1980s. Focusing on the apparel and electronics sectors, we look at how Chinese manufacturers...

Introduction: A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science -- A Long View of the Past -- Economic Planning Models for India in the 1960s -- The Persistence and Effectiveness of Large-Scale Mathematical Programming Strategies: Projection, Outer Linearization,...