... capabilities in facilitating knowledge access from international linkages and improving firm productivity. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on organizational learning research, the present study argues that the relationship between GVC breadth, analyzed in respect to the geographical fragmentation...

...). This paper contributes with an increase in understanding by describing development of new manufacturing knowledge as an organizational learning process that spirals between three knowledge integration processes in an inter- and intra-organizational knowledge development context. Further, it was observed...

... needs. 1. 6 Element 6: © MCB UP Limited 2002 Empowerment Process control Organizational learning Lean production Re‐engineering Quality Process improvement activities. A more radical solution for improving processes is to let employees...

... Organizational learning Purchasing Supply chain 1. 1Industrial output is seen as the product of the activities of interrelated transformation processes within and across traditional firm boundaries. 2. 2Value and competitive activity are created within supply chains, rather than firms. 3...