Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...

We consider the problem of managing inventory and production capacity in a start-up manufacturing firm with the objective of maximising the probability of the firm surviving as well as the more common objective of maximising profit. Using Markov decision process models, we characterise and...

This paper analyzes the growth and evolution of Knauf CIS Group from 1992 to 2012. The study defines the features and characteristics of the firm’s corporate policies including production and operations, marketing, HR management, and societal engagement. These policies have enabled Russian...

Since the nineties, but the phenomenon has intensified in the last decade, has increased the number of SMEs that choose to relocate their production - or specific phases of it - in countries with low labor costs, in order to maintain or strengthen their competitiveness on international markets....

This paper studies how a retailer decides the length of product line in a vertically related industry. We study a market with two product varieties. Each retailer decides the number of varieties it procures from an upstream manufacturer. The manufacturer may open an online store and encroach on...

There are some movements within the project management profession to adopt a new posture regarding project failures. According to this new line of reasoning, failure should be embraced since it provides a learning opportunity to firms (Gino and Staats, 2015; Edmondson, 2011). This paper takes a...

Specificity is a central concept to relationship management, especially with respect to resulting commitments. A theory-based analysis regarding the challenges of specific investments which explicitly addresses time-related aspects is still missing. One reason might be the traditional dominance...

An application of Capabilities-Driven Strategy to upstream E&P. As the industry evolves, so too must E&P strategies, portfolios, organizational capabilities, and operating models – capabilities must be enhanced, workflows streamlined, and productivity optimized, through broad operating model...

The paper provides a summary of the existing typologies of corporate parenting styles and discovers the missing elements in the theoretical constructs. New theoretical constructs fill the gaps. The paper presents a new typology of corporate parenting style by combining “adding value to...