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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty

Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021

I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations … increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …

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Locational flexibility of the manufacturing multinational enterprise : a framework and two case studies

Wunnik, Lucas van - 2011

In this paper, I try to develop a framework, which presents the factors influencing the mobility capacity of the manufacturing activity of a multinational enterprise (the difficulty/ease with which it can transfer its manufacturing activity from the initial host territory to another territory)....

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The impact of carbon emission considerations on manufacturing value chain relocation

Wu, Peng; Jin, Ying; Shi, Yongjiang - 2011 - This paper is an extended version

As a stark contrast to the diminishing media profile of the UN climate change talks, the global manufacturers appear to have become more carbon aware than ever before. Carbon audits have been carried out within many corporations to assess the carbon intensity of production processes. This is...

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Business model innovation : a case of the offshore lifting equipment supplier

Shlopak, Mikhail; Myhre, Richard; Hofinger Jünge, Gabriele - In: Digitalization in supply chain management and logistics …, (pp. 175-193). 2017

The purpose of this paper is to present the background for and the process of development of an Internet of Things (IoT) business model (BM) for a Norwegian offshore lifting equipment supplier. The paper presents both challenges and new opportunities connected to the case company’s transition...

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What determines the relocation tendency of manufacturing firms? : 50th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International 19-23 August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden

Alkay, Elif - 2010

Firms locate in different areas for different reasons. However, some of them tend to move a new place in order to achieve alternative goals. For instance, the manufacturing survey in 2005 reflects that 30 per cent of the manufacturing firms in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area would like to...

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Buyer-seller interaction in facility services : emerging paradoxes in the outsourcing approach of Italian municipalities

Guercini, Simone; Ranfagni, Silvia - In: Journal of service theory and practice : JSTP 25 (2015) 2, pp. 162-180

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Achieving efficiency and effectiveness in purchasing and supply management : organization design and outsourcing

Bals, Lydia; Turkulainen, Virpi - In: Journal of purchasing and supply management 23 (2017) 4, pp. 256-267

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Analysis of the logistics service provider/principal relationship : in the light of innovation as a LSP strategy

Bouchette, Hasna; Achoui, Mostafa; Saki, Zohra; Kabbaj, … - In: New business models and institutional entrepreneurs : …, (pp. 269-287). 2018

The stakeholders in logistics outsourcing are logistics service providers (LSP). The trend towards outsourcing …

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The supplier's side of outsourcing : taking over activities and blurring organizational boundaries

Baraldi, Enrico; Proença, João F.; Proença, Teresa; … - In: Industrial marketing management : the international … 43 (2014) 4, pp. 553-563

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