Purpose: The objective of this study is to find out what is important to consider when developing a supply chain in automotive suppliers manufactures, what is required in order to establish a supply chain orientation and how lean and agile can be used as process strategies in order to improve...

Over the last few decades, innovation has doubled automobile performance at a time when outsourcing has increased. But outsourcing is subject to well-known contracting hazards that would also afflict outsourcing for innovation. In this paper, we examine how supplier firms generate innovation in...

The restrictive measures that have been imposed from March 2020 on business activities in several countries to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic can be interpreted as shocks to global supply chains. We propose some agent-based models to evaluate the economic effects of different...