Purpose – Free trade agreements have been employed, either unilaterally or as a bloc, as an instrument to overcome the inefficiencies in trade brought about by the prevailing barriers and regulatory measures. During the tenth summit the leaders of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine what senior supply chain executives measure and how they perceive performance measurement from a balanced scorecard (BSC) perspective. Design/methodology/approach – A survey designed from the four perspectives of the BSC framework...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to develop an integrated model for performance management (PM) of manufacturing industries. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed integrated model consists of performance measurement by the extended Brown Gibson model by considering the objective...

Posits that the regionalization and globalization of companies in the Asia Pacific region is forcing human resource managers and general managers to rethink and reconsider their systems of management. A survey of human resource management (HRM) practices and policies in Singapore was conducted...

Purpose: Information distortion affects the perception of quality, which, in turn, influences investment decisions and determines the pledge results of fundraising. This study combines signalling theory with persuasion theory to empirically study the effects of linguistic information distortion...

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to bring attention to documentary credits and the efforts to reduce debt obligations in credit history is recognized as an important source of uncommitted bank earnings. Credit risk has a significant impact on the stability of the banking system. This paper...

Purpose: In this Industry 4.0 era, third-party logistics (3PL) industries face huge cost pressure to deliver their service. With increase in competition among the players, constant mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have been taking place to sustain competitive advantage. Therefore, this study aims...

Purpose: This research paper examines how hub firm transformation and restructuring of network partnerships shape the development of industrial clusters in China. Design/methodology/approach: Questionnaire data were collected from 210 managers (response rate 70.9 percent) from the manufacturing...