Purpose – This paper aims to empirically explore the effects of IC on Supplier Selection (S.S) and consequently investigate the consecutive impacts on an Asian automotive Supply Chain Performance (S.C.P).Design/Methodology/Approach – A questionnaire-oriented survey from top managers and...

We study the internationalisation process in a representative sample of 786 firms in the Italian automotive supply chain. Most of these firms have agglomerated in the Turin industrial district, the cradle of FIAT, the dominant Italian car-maker and one of the global players in the automotive...

Over the last few decades, innovation has doubled automobile performance at a time when outsourcing has increased. But outsourcing is subject to well-known contracting hazards that would also afflict outsourcing for innovation. In this paper, we examine how supplier firms generate innovation in...