Firms invest considerable resources into improving their operations and performance. Information technology (IT) and competition networks play an important role in operations by facilitating access to information and knowledge. However, the links between IT, competition networks and operating...

Intangible resources play an increasingly influential role in today's business operations, but how they affect inventory management remains underexplored in the literature. This paper associates a firm's inventory-turnover performance with its capabilities of utilizing the intangible resources...

In this paper, we empirically measure the impact of natural disasters on firm-level operating performance and examine if such impact can be mitigated by technology diversification. Using major natural disasters specified by Barrot and Sauvagnat (2015) and factory location data from the toxic...