Over the past ten years, intense global competition has forced many firms to examine their business practices and to evaluate how to meet the challenges economic globalization has presented. Underlying these efforts has been an examination of strategic priorities and in particular recognition of...

Purpose – To gain understanding of value chain (VC) agility in terms of value‐adding processes, this paper seeks to present a VC agility framework and then to develop the involved constructs. Design/methodology/approach – A framework of VC agility and its theoretical underpinnings is...

Proposes a virtual cellular manufacturing approach to implementing cellular manufacturing systems that combines the set‐up efficiency typically obtained by traditional cellular manufacturing or group technology systems with the flexibility of a job shop. Unlike traditional cellular systems in...

Total quality management, supply base management, customer driven corporate policy, and other elements of supply chain management are frequently cited as strategic options to achieve competitive success in the 1990s. However, attempts by companies to implement these options have not been...

A survey of U.S.-owned small- and medium-sizedenterprises (SMEs) with European locations reveals the role of key strategic,tactical, and operational elements of U.S. SME expansion in Europe. The studyalso provides results regarding drivers of expansion, barriers to entry, entrystrategies,...