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...

Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD -- Guest editorial -- The manufacturing extraprise: an emerging production network paradigm -- Strategic roles of manufacturing -- The evolution of production systems and conceptual frameworks -- Strategic options-based framework for management of...

Cover -- Guest editorial Rethinking international manufacturing in times of global turbulence -- Manufacturing network integration and culture: an institution-based view -- The influence of IIoT on manufacturing network coordination -- Using plant leaders' perspectives to overcome barriers to...

This paper seeks to explore the interplay and interdependencies of factory and network capabilities. This issue has become progressively more important as companies seek to manage dispersed networks of plants capable of responding to increasingly competitive and volatile environments. The paper...

This article presents a structural equation model for exploring the impact of social responsibility, which been divided into responsibility for the internal stakeholder and responsibility for the external stakeholder, as well as internal governance on Chinese manufacturing growth on the basis of...

This paper attempts to answer the question of what and how knowledge sharing mechanisms should be used between geographically dispersed plants in multinational companies. Case studies in eleven multinational companies reveal many mechanisms are used for inter-plant knowledge sharing, which are...