... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Emerging economies 3D printing Global manufacturing networks Additive manufacturing Prototyping RQ1. What are the main characteristics of FabLabs in a developed country? RQ2. What could...

... Global manufacturing networks Industry 4.0 Organizational learning Creativity Production is often fragmented into a wider set of processes and tasks which, in many cases, take place across a number of different countries simultaneously (Saliola and Zanfei, 2009 ; Pietrobelli and Rabellotti...

... Global manufacturing networks Competitive manufacturing The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of how a factory might impact the competitiveness of a contract manufacturer (CM) by targeting the performance of the global value chains (GVCs) within which it trades...

..., a research question arises: María J. Paz can be contacted at: mjpazant@ucm.es 17 02 2020 01 07 2020 22 09 2020 15 10 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Automotive industry Global manufacturing networks...

... 06 2019 12 03 2020 22 05 2020 29 07 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Performance Integration Global manufacturing networks International manufacturing A manufacturing network is a coordinated...

... networks Manufacturing operations International operations Human factors Figure 1 Interplay of the micro- and macro-levels in an IMN (modified from Foss et al., 2010 , p. 460; Coleman, 1990) Firms coordinate their global manufacturing networks through policies (Jaehne...

... 05 04 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Global manufacturing networks Network coordination National culture Organizational culture Cultural distance Multilevel regression We introduce a sociocultural...

.... Digitization Manufacturing industry Information systems Industry 4.0 Global manufacturing networks The manufacturing industry is on a transformation journey toward smart and flexible manufacturing systems (Gilchrist, 2016 ; Samaranayake et al., 2017). The development of new...

... rights only Product design Automotive industry Global manufacturing networks The influence of product design in production systems is a relevant topic for production research (Fixson, 2005 ; Jose and Tollenaere, 2005 ; MacDuffie, 2013 ; Asadi et al., 2017). Any significant...

... innovation Dynamic capabilities Buyer-supplier relationships Global manufacturing networks Further, there is no single set of concrete factors determining the absorptive capacity of a firm. To begin with, absorptive capacity was defined as the ability of a firm to use external knowledge (Giuliani...

... of this article (for both commercial & non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Operations management Reshoring Global manufacturing networks...

... objectives Global manufacturing networks Lateral knowledge flow Table I summarises the dimensions of knowledge transfer identified in the literature. These dimensions serve as a starting point for the data analysis. Machinery Inc., represents a centralised manufacturing network. The level...

... Licensed re-use rights only IMSS Supply chain management Global manufacturing networks Starting from the seminal work of Ferdows (1997) , previous studies demonstrated that plants have different roles, mainly as a combination of their localization advantage and competences (Cheng et al...