This book provides a detailed, multi-disciplinary analysis of innovation networks in a variety of organisational settings. All the contributors are employed at Aston Business School, which is one of the UK's foremost institutions in terms of both teaching and research. The book illustrates the...

When dynamic production capacity is considered in production lot-sizing plans, it becomes very challenging to efficiently determine the optimal production plan. Many papers apply “at most one fractional production period” to develop efficient algorithms, but those algorithms are still...

We examine the effects of demand-side (product market) and supply-side (supply chain) market power on firm profitability and the ease of access to bank financing. Using granular supply-chain and bank-loan information, we empirically demonstrate that both demand-side and supply-side power are...