Like other emerging and developing economies of the world, business groups dominate the Pakistani economic landscape. The political economy of the country makes it easier for business groups to take bold business decisions in uncertain and inconsistent policy regimes. By incorporating new...

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore the changing role of a logistics service providers (LSPs) to better support their supply chain (SC) partners on their journey of advancing their product-service systems through distributing manufacturing around the world. The purpose of this paper is...

The paper explores the meaning of flexibility in the context of lean, agile and leagile supply networks and articulates a supply network flexibility framework. Two key ‘sources’ of flexibility are investigated: vendor flexibility and sourcing flexibility. The paper introduces an extension of...