.... Likewise, logistic management strategies such as downsizing, investment diversification, “queasy-niche” production, use of communication technologies, networking and opening up to global markets may prove highly useful. Even so, the sustainability of independent smaller businesses requires responsive trade...

... relationships, despite their intensity and transformative power, are unstable and contrary to expectations might prove to be fragile and temporary. Originality/value – A number of approaches, such as world-system theory, political economy or the global value chain theory, try to describe the ongoing re...