Today's trends toward increasing industry consolidation, globalization and platform product strategies underscore the importance of strategic supply chain design as a major business imperative. In parallel, Real Options theory is replacing net present value as the central paradigm for...

1. Introduction -- 2. Factors and challenges driving logistics and supply chain management -- 3. Export sales contract -- 4. Constituents of the export sales contract continued -- 5. Constituents of the international purchasing/procurement system -- 6. Selecting the international logistics...

Supply chain structure of global enterprises tend to develop dramatically. These lead to more difficulty for enterprises in managing and building information sharing systems. Thus, it is a necessary for enterprises to limit the scope of the information sharing system by selecting essential...

Der vierte Band der jährlichen Buchreihe präsentiert die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte in den Forschungsfeldern Einkauf, Materialwirtschaft, Logistik und Supply Chain Management. Streng wissenschaftliche sowie anwendungsnahe Beiträge geben Impulse für Forschung und Praxis und fördern den...

Teil A: Wissenschaftliche Forschungsbeiträge -- Geschlechtsspezifisches Verhalten in Lieferanten-Kunden-Verhandlungen -- Entwicklung einer Methodik zur Bewertung von Lieferanteninnovationen -- Towards a Framework for Strategy in Purchasing -- Multi-Dimensional Country Evaluation for Global...

This paper studies whether tax policies in developed nations affect developing economies through cross-border investments by multinational firms. We study firm investment responses to a major U.K. tax reform that drastically reduced the income tax burden for U.K.-based firms. Our identification...