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Buyer-supplier embeddedness and patterns of innovation
Yusoon Kim, Thomas Y. Choi, Paul F. SkiltonThe purpose of this paper is to describe different ways in which a buyer and supplier can be embedded in a dyadic relationship and how these differences influence patterns of…
Service embeddedness and its role in a firm’s internationalisation process: An Australian perspective
Robert Jack, Sharif As-Saber, Ron EdwardsPerceived differences in the composition of goods and services forms the basis of a significant degree of analysis of the firm internationalisation process. In particular, product…
Exploring the importance of cultural collectivism on the efficacy of lean practices: Taking an organisational and national perspective
Frank Wiengarten, Cristina Gimenez, Brian Fynes, Kasra FerdowsThe purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of cultural collectivism on the efficacy of lean practices. Furthermore, this study assesses whether or not potential cultural…
International manufacturing network: past, present, and future
Yang Cheng, Sami Farooq, John Johansen– The purpose of this paper is to examine, and present a comprehensive review of, the existing literature on the international manufacturing network (IMN).
Collaborative purchasing of complex technologies in healthcare: Implications for alignment strategies
Chiara Gobbi, Juliana Hsuan– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how buyers and the vendors pursue alignment in collaborative purchasing (CP) of complex medical technologies.
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen