...Martin Fraering; Sameer Prasad Billions of dollars are being poured into developing nations by multinationals as part of their diversification, divestiture, facility location, and supplier selection strategies. By integrating the literature in international business, marketing, purchasing...

... method which adapts the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) to overcome these inadequacies and help business executives make informed KBS investment decisions. Presents an example of the method’s application to a KBS at a large multinational sales and manufacturing company. The KBS valuation method...

... look at the current management practice used by multinational corporations such as Campbell Soup, Kmart, Dell Computer, Hewlett‐Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Volvo for the development of a global supply chain partnership strategy. Next, based on the literature review and current...

... to identify common practices. For each metric, interviewers focused on best practices in: Benchmarking Multinationals Performance Quantitative techniques Supply‐chain management The supply chain consists of those logistical and informational elements which are bounded by the aggregate demands...

... for successfully combining a learning approach to strategy with proactive and integrated logistics management. © Company 1995 Canada IKEA Logistics Management Multinationals Organizational change Organizational learning Retail trade Stores The benefits of enterprise‐wide logistics...

... (see Table I). © MCB UP Limited 1995 Computer‐aided acquisition and logistic support Electronic data interchange Information exchange Logistics Management information systems Multinationals Organizations Supply‐chain management The logistics industry has had to respond quickly...

... of logistics systems, notably among multinational producers; and how environmental concerns are shaping up as key considerations in logistics. Describes major challenges for both users and providers of logistics services in the 1990s. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Environment Europe Information systems...