Die Wirtschaftkrise und die aktuell folgende, rasante Erholung unterstreichen die Relevanz eines gesunden und schlagkräftigen Lieferantennetzwerkes. Sebastian M. Durst zeigt mittels einer dyadisch angelegten, empirischen Studie auf, wie und unter welchen Umständen Lieferanten strategisch...

Purpose – The purpose of the work discussed in this paper is to understand, analyse and benchmark the “Packing and Filling” processes within BASF. A benchmarking project is described in detail which aimed to cover sites in different countries that supplied many different variants of...

Purpose – Qualitative theory building approaches, such as grounded theory method (GTM), are still not very widespread and rigorously applied in operations management (OM) research. Yet it is agreed that more systematic observation of current industrial phenomena is necessary to help managers...

Introduction -- The collaborative economy -- The need for sustainable inter-organisational R&D collaboration in the car industry -- Theoretical perspectives of inter-organisational relationship governance -- An empirical study on inter-organisational R&D collaboration in the car industry -- A...