Background: In an increasingly volatile global business environment, supply chain resilience has become a strategic imperative, particularly for firms operating in developing economies. Guided by Dynamic Capabilities Theory (DCT), this study examines how AI-powered tools foster an innovation...

Financial volatility increasingly challenges firms to maintain operational sustainability; yet the mechanisms through which cash flow uncertainty (CFU) shapes environmental practices remain unclear. Based on an international unbalanced panel of 14,798 firm-year observations (2010–2021), this...

The circular economy (CE) is increasingly recognized as a financially material dimension of corporate sustainability, complementing and in some respects surpassing traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics. Building on prior evidence of a negative relationship between...

Climate change, trade wars, supply-chain disruptions, and geopolitical uncertainty - one may characterize the post-COVID era as such. The Circular Economy, with its focus on a circular production process, is a framework that addresses exactly these drivers of heightened uncertainty. We propose...

This study investigates the strategic drivers and performance outcomes of open innovation in Vietnamese manufacturing firms, with a particular focus on entrepreneurial orientation, proactive environmental strategy, and adaptive capacity. Grounded in the Natural Resource-Based View and Dynamic...

India is currently one of the fastest-growing emerging economies in the world, with a continued focus on maintaining its growth momentum and enhancing the productivity of its manufacturing sector. This paper aims to examine the impact of technology imports and spillovers on the productivity of...

The first edition of the Intelligent Industrial Operations Outlook explores how industrial operations are shifting from traditional automation to intelligent, connected and increasingly autonomous systems. It shows how frontier technologies such as AI, physical AI and quantum technologies are...

Technology convergence is changing how competitive advantage is created. As technologies increasingly combine, the opportunity is no longer just identifying promising pairings, but scaling them for real-world use. This second edition of the Technology Convergence Report shifts focus from where...

Industrialization is key for economic development but how it interacts with climate change mitigation is insufficiently understood. However, this relationship is important for scenarios of climate change mitigation, such as reviewed by the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), that seek...