...Peter Enderwick Purpose China's increasing importance as a major global supplier has coincided in recent years with a number of disturbing cases of quality fade (sudden unexpected deteriorations in agreed quality levels) adversely impacting consumer safety, welfare and brand equity. The most...

... Publishing Limited 2009 International business Globalization Transaction costs Organizational development Internationalization – the process of increasing involvement in international operations across borders (Welch and Luostarinen, 1988) – comprises both changed perspectives and changed...

... 2009 Offshore investments Outsourcing Globalization Services Service industries Rapidly advancing technologies, increasing globalization, shifting demographics and greater regulatory oversight are combining to create fundamental shifts in business environment – leading to new...

...Veli Denizhan Kalkan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer an overall view of knowledge management challenges for global business via discussing the challenges and proposing theoretical and managerial implications. Design/methodology/approach Based on a comprehensive literature review...

...Christopher Seow; Ruth Hillary; Wayne Cartwright; John L. Craig Purpose To demonstrate that mainstream current ethical stances of corporate governance and associated strategic and operational management are contributors to global unsustainability, and to discuss issues and approaches for bringing...

... operators across five different countries. Markku Tinnilä can be contacted at: tinnila@hkkk.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Mobile communication systems Globalization Asia Europe United States of America As the market for mobile phones becomes saturated and price...

...W.B. Lee; C.F. Cheung; H.C.W. Lau; K.L. Choy As the manufacturing market is becoming more global and borderless with respect to national borders, a number of global manufacturing networks have been established, taking the advantage of fast‐growing networking and information technologies. Networked...

...Timothy L. Pett; C. Clay Dibrell Develops a conceptual framework of global strategic alliances by using the hybrid type of organization as part of the framework. The framework illustrates the relationships of various characteristics that might be present in an industry and across national...

... extending throughout supply chains, some businesses are gaining competitive advantage by maximising the efficiency of their “global” supply chains or “virtual” organisations. A conceptual model of an integrated business process, derived from the case study, is presented, which highlights the importance...