Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to document the extent to which the relative performance of plants varies over an extended period of time, with some plants performing persistently well and sister plants performing persistently poorly. It examines why this phenomenon occurs....

Following the moves to unification in East and West Germany, and market reform in the East, Sony Europa GmbH decided to accelerate its development in the East, with an initial focus on Poland. Robert Howard and Robert Collins in this EFMD 1992 Case Writing Competition Prize-winning Award...

This book presents strategies and practices to allow everyday companies to cope with the fundamentally changing landscape of business models and to take advantage of the huge business opportunities arising from the advent of big data. It develops several case studies from companies in...

1. Thinking strategically about supply chain management -- 2. The supply chain : key driver of your business model -- 3. Handling dilemmas in the supply chain -- 4. Making the supply chain work -- 5. Sustaining supply chain alignment.