... Innovation Risk management Supplier or partner selection Business improvement Performance management and benchmarking This study offers multiple contributions to supply chain relationship literature. First, it contributes to a better theoretical understanding of supplier relationships...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Qualitative Process design Performance management and benchmarking Business improvement Modelling (of systems and processes) The internet of things (IoT) connects the world, enabling physical objects to share data...

... Innovation Risk management Service design New business or process or operations models Business improvement Both SC = Supply chain; MOSC = Medical oxygen supply chain; BWM = Best worst method; IoT = Internet of Things; WHO = World Health Organization; ASU = Air...

... rights only Supply chains Bullwhip effect Blockchain Shared ledger Innovation Quantitative New business or process or operations models Knowledge management Business improvement Contract negotiation In today’s globalized competitive environment, there is intense competition among...

...Minna Saunila; Juhani Ukko; Mina Nasiri; Tero Rantala; Sariseelia Sore Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the connections between the capabilities of suppliers, buyer operations and the innovation performance of buyers in service-based supply chains. In particular, the authors use...

... 2019 03 04 2019 02 07 2019 10 07 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Supplier taxonomy Buyer–supplier relationships Collaboration Value configuration Backshoring Innovation Supplier or partner selection New...

.... Outsourcing is significant to enhance the performance of an oil and gas company; however, outsourcing could also result in the conflict of firm culture with outsourced vendors, and inefficient management and loss of innovative capacity are possible negative effects of outsourcing. Research limitations...

.... Findings are organized in a way to draw lessons to be learned from technological outsourcing examined. Findings Technological learning, acquisition of new technologies, market access and process innovation are few capabilities achieved by the involved SMEs. To facilitate and harness these opportunities...

.... (2001) and Lievens and De Corte (2008) , the decision about the HR activities outsourcing includes the reasons to decrease the costs, get access to HR expertise, get employees easily and as per requirement and focus managerial resources related to strategic issues. Innovation Qualitative Brand...

...., 2011 ; Neely, 2008). On aggregate, the mixed evidence for the evolutionary features and profitability of service development may foster a trap[ 1 ] that hampers business development and innovation. As a response, many scholars have pointed out that industrial companies need to exploit...

...Mary Lacity; Leslie Willcocks Purpose – This paper aims to answer the question: how do clients and BPO service providers work together to foster dynamic innovation? Dynamic innovation is a process by which clients incent providers to deliver many innovations each year that improve the client's...

...Leslie P. Willcocks; Will Venters; Edgar A. Whitley Purpose Although cloud computing has been heralded as driving the innovation agenda, there is growing evidence that cloud computing is actually a “slow train coming”. The purpose of this paper is to seek to understand the factors that drive...

... judgement in determining safety stock levels in silo‐structured organisations. New business or process or operations models Process design Service design Supplier or partner selection Innovation Design Supply Chain Management (SCM) has, in last two decades, suffered the influence of six...

... arrangements do, bootstrapping can be disruptive and even upsetting (Arbaugh, 2003). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Business improvement Innovation Supplier or partner selection Process design Contract negotiation Process planning Small enterprises Entrepreneurialism Outsourcing...

...Ilan Oshri Purpose This paper aims to serve as a response to the article “Innovation returns from offshored IT R&D”. Design/methodology/approach The paper highlights two aspects relating to captive centres and R&D offshoring: what R&D is offshored, and understanding foreign direct...

...Erran Carmel; Jason Dedrick; Kenneth L. Kraemer Purpose We treat offshoring as a managerial innovation. Should it still be considered an innovation? The purpose of this paper is to use innovation theory, especially, Rogers' diffusion of innovation theory (DOI) to examine this question...

...Peter Baloh; Sanjeev Jha; Yukika Awazu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to uncover the mechanisms of organizations managing innovation outsourcing to business partners. In a business environment characterized by the development of deep, niche expertise in a particular domain, business...