...Zaza Nadja Lee Hansen; Yufeng Zhang; Saeema Ahmed‐Kristensen Purpose Companies are increasingly engaged with global engineering networks through offshoring of product development activities from R&D to production. This creates many new challenges as operations get physically and culturally...

...K.L. Choy; Kris M.Y. Law; S.C. Lenny KOH; Ying Kei Tse; Kim Hua Tan; Sai Ho Chung; Ming Kim Lim Purpose The rise of recent product recalls reveals that manufacturing firms are particularly vulnerable to product quality and safety where goods and materials have been sourced globally. The purpose...

...Kun Liao; Erika Marsillac; Eldon Johnson; Ying Liao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand and describe the conditions that compel and underscore global supply chain (SC) adaptations. Design/methodology/approach Insights from contingency theory, Porter's economic cluster theory...

...Julio Sánchez Loppacher; Raffaella Cagliano; Gianluca Spina Purpose According to the reviewed literature, in order to build effective and efficient global supply (GS) strategies, multinational companies (MNCs) need to define and implement adequate headquarters' control and follow‐up systems for GS...

...Ben Clegg; Yufeng Zhang; Mike Gregory; Yongjiang Shi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrating framework for the configuration and performance of global engineering networks (GEN). Design/methodology/approach The reported study is based on a comprehensive literature review...

... have now moved towards global supplier networks to meet demand. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the drivers which push companies to develop global supplier networks. Design/methodology/approach Through the development of a case study approach, the paper chronicles the design, development...

..., research is embedded in comparing the agility approach with the different cultural elements like power distance or uncertainty avoidance, particularly for the automotive industry as one of the few globally favoured industry sectors. Another research field is addressed with the degree of customization: how...

... it has the limitation in terms of the scope. However, the overall results are encouraging with 70 percent response rare in the survey and underline the need for more such studies. The results have implications for all managers responsible for IS, any SME in the era of globalization. Originality/value...

... competences Strategic planning Globalization Developing countries Manufacturing Brazil The process of business globalisation is accelerating the rate of change in the way that production of goods and services is designed and implemented. After the hegemonic and universal conception of large...

...P. Shurchuluu Globalization and national competitiveness are popular issues in our economic policy debates. This paper seeks to clarify these pressing issues facing government, private sector and trade unions and focuses on alternative productivity and competitive strategies and benchmarking...

..., and echelon elimination. They also raise interesting questions concerning the relationship between manufacturing agility and lean supply. For, by attenuating bullwhip the studied company was able to reduce their global inventory by 45 per cent. Thus, by viewing manufacturing in the context of the supply chain...

...Vittorio Chiesa Technology and product development processes are increasingly subject to internationalization, and the importance of research and development (R&D) activities carried out offshore is increasing. Therefore, firms tend to take a global view of their operations and rethink their R...