In this article, we study the antecedents of supplier innovativeness and supplier pricing. Based on an extensive literature review, we identify different types of antecedents: (1) 'technical' antecedents, which include the capabilities of suppliers to innovate (such as their level of R&D...

Consortium benchmarking is a scholar-practitioner collaborative case study approach joining rigor and relevance in management research. In consortium benchmarking practitioners and academic researchers form a consortium and together benchmark best-practices. Consortium benchmarking includes...

This paper analyses three levels of interaction among firms: regional, domestic and international, the analysis relying on cross-functional supplier evaluations by their customers. The statistical analysis reveals that indeed three groups with different evaluation results can be distinguished....

Clusters have gained considerable attention from regional planners and policy-makers. In order to support their decision process, a “top-down” analysis has evolved, the regional agglomeration as a whole being the object of analysis. The importance of cluster-membership for the management of...

Regional clusters are known to facilitate firms in achieving higher levels of competitive advantage. This observation suggests that cluster firms manage to obtain better competitive resources than firms outside the cluster. The strong social ties in regional clusters are considered to be a...

Purpose – Research results concerning the cost‐saving potential of international sourcing have been ambiguous and the topic has been covered in isolation without accounting for influences of alternative cost‐saving approaches. This paper aims to analyze the expected financial impact of...