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Supply Chain Structure, Inventory Turnover, and Financial Performance : Evidence from Manufacturing Companies in China

Hu, Shanshan - 2014

Using data collected by the World Bank, we empirically investigate the relationship between Chinese manufacturers' supply chain attributes, raw material and finished goods inventory turnover, and return on sales. Our findings indicate that location proximity, relationship continuity, and the...

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Management Practices in Russian Manufacturing Subsidiaries of Foreign Multinational Corporations : Challenging Some Beliefs About Contemporary Russian Industrial Management

Gurkov, Igor - 2013

I report the results of observations of management practices in 20 Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of Western multinational corporations (MNCs). I argue that to counterbalance the higher country-specific risks associated with investing in Russia, MNCs impose on their Russian subsidiaries high...

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Management Accounting System Problems in Context of Lean : Development of a Proposed Solution

Kristensen, Thomas - 2012

Based on three case studies, a new Lean financial model is developed. This new model improves the organization by increasing Lean goal congruent behavior. The new financial (costing) model uses the waste categories known from Lean in order to create decision information for Lean decisions such...

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Does Economic Crisis Spur Organizational Change? Evidence from Chilean Manufacturing Plants

Alvarez, Roberto; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo - 2006

Recent theoretical models have shown that when demand is slack, firms tend to introduce new management practices and/or reorganize their production methods; however, few micro econometric studies deal directly with the relationship between organizational change and economic crises. In this...

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Inventory Productivity and Stock Returns in Manufacturing Networks

Agrawal, Deepak; Osadchiy, Nikolay - 2022

We provide a novel, supply network-based perspective on inventory productivity and incentives for its improvement. Using data from 2003 to 2019, we find that inventory productivity reduces materially and statistically significantly for firms located upstream in the supply network, and increases...

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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution

Chéron, Arnaud - 2012

Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...

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Offshoring in Europe - Evidence of a Two-Way Street from Denmark

Kirkegaard, Jacob F. - 2007

Based on a large Danish survey of companies in tradable goods and services sectors, this working paper presents the results of offshoring and its impact on jobs, adding new perspectives to the globalization debate. Globalization entails a cross-border flow of jobs, but contrary to the mainstream...

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Trade between China and the Netherlands : a case study of globalization

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Hayat, Raphie - 2008 - Version 12 February 2008

During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in …

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Trade between China and the Netherlands; A Case Study of Globalization

den Butter, Frank A. G.; Hayat, Raphie - 2008

During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in …

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Trade between China and the Netherlands : A Case Study of Trade in Tasks

den Butter, Frank A. G. - 2011

replaced by a trade in tasks. This paper discusses the trade between China and the Netherlands from that perspective. Using an … explain a large part of trade between these two countries. Thus, the Netherlands fulfils the distributional role of gateway to … the European hinterland for China, while China acts as producer and assembler of goods for the Netherlands. These are …

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