Agility and sustainability are two philosophies that the North American manufacturing industry invested heavily in, since the beginning of the twenty-first century. The impact of the two philosophies go beyond operations and extend to innovation, employees, communities, and customer. This paper...

This study argues that the regions classified by the World Bank are not coherent in terms of economic structures. The special identities within each region dictate that the economic performance in different sub-regions should be determined independently. Embracing Barro’s (1991) regional...