This article examines weaknesses of multinational corporations in China. Many multinationals target high price and high‐end segments when entering the country. This creates several problems. First, this market position makes them less sensitive to the growth opportunities in mid to low‐end...

Europe is in the midst of major changes that have a significant impact on the business environment. As a result, logistics is undergoing radical redesign in most major European corporations. Relying on case studies, discussions with logistics professionals and contemporary literature, the...

Discusses how retailers can best deal with a potential issue of a retail downturn. States that if retailing enters a downturn retailers will need to make the most of their supply chains in order to safeguard their competitiveness. Reveals that, in order to realise fully the benefits of supply...

Argues that the developments in UK supermarket practice in recent years have resulted in a distinctive system of retailing in the UK, and that this has some important consequences for how one assesses the nature of competition in this market. In particular it means that standard approaches to...

Alludes to the concept of the value chain — which was seen as a powerful tool enabling strategists to diagnose and enhance competitive strategy (first put forward in Porter's 1980 book ‘Competitive Strategy’). Describes the value system as having at least three additional value chains of...

In today's uncertain and turbulent markets, supply chain vulnerability has become an issue of significance for many companies. As supply chains become more complex as a result of global sourcing and the continued trend to “leaning‐down”, supply chain risk increases. The challenge to...

Examines the way in which British Field Products Ltd has over the year developed an efficient supply chain. Uses the example of broccoli to trace this development since the company started producing broccoli in 1985. Outlines BFD’s six fundamental requirements for an efficient supply: scale of...

Geopolitik, Nachhaltigkeit und Technologie sind die drei strategischen Herausforderungen der 2020er-Jahre. Die zunehmende Rivalität zwischen den USA, China und Europa, der Klimawandel, neue gesellschaftliche Erwartungen an die Wirtschaft und die rasante Entwicklung der Künstlichen Intelligenz...