For the last 50 years, the United States has been the leading supplier of LCA to the world. Changes in the structure of the global LCA industry and its market may ultimately affect the U.S. industry’s continued dominance, as competition increases and aspiring producers seek to enter the...

This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use...

The BSIs for the 1st quarter of 2014 indicate that the economic sentiment of manufacturing firms has worsened compared to the last quarter. The manufacturer’ assessment of business conditions has been below the baseline (100) since last year. Except for the ordinary profit (102), the BSIs on...

Manufacturers increasingly recognize the crucial role of process change to create and sustain competitive capabilities. However, the benefits of process change are frequently uncertain due to technical problems, worker resistance to change, and limited resource availability. Complicating the...

The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering firm in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for and the acquisitions of assets undertaken by ABB in Wroclaw, Poland and...

The master agreements that nominally govern the transactions between mid-western Original Equipment Manufacturers and their suppliers are not, for the most part, designed to create legal obligations. Rather, they create a space in which private order can flourish, much like the role played by...

In the multi-site manufacturing domain, system of systems (SoS) are rarely called so. However, there exist a number of collaborative manufacturing paradigms which relate to system of systems principles. These include supply chains and production networks, distributed manufacturing, dispersed...

We assess the cost reducing impacts of increasing stocks of "high-tech" equipment (O capital). Our empirical analysis is based on a dynamic production theory model and annual data for two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries (1952-1991). We find evidence of overinvestment in O capital in the mid...

The overall composite Business Survey Index for the manufacturing sector in Q1 2021 remained under the baseline (100). Moreover, all feeder indices have slightly decreased compared to the previous quarter. Business conditions (92), sales (91), domestic demand (90), ordinary profit (88), and...

The overall composite Business Survey Index for the manufacturing sector in Q4 2020 remained under the baseline (100). However, all feeder indices have slightly increased compared to the previous quarter. Specifically, sales (96), domestic demand (96), and ordinary profit (92) showed...