
Guido NassimbeniUniversity of Udine | UNIUD · Department of Electrical, Management and Mechanical Engineering
Guido Nassimbeni
MD, Ph.D.
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This article presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of empirical studies concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Over the past decade, technologies belonging to AI have developed rapidly, reaching a sufficient level of maturity to catalyze transformative changes in business and society. Within t...
Purpose-This study analyzes the performance implications of adopting blockchain to support supply chain business processes. The technology holds as many promises as implementation challenges, so interest in its impact on operational performance has grown steadily over the last few years.
Design/methodology/approach-Drawing on transaction cost econ...
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This study aims to analyze the factors that drive or prevent interorganizational data sharing in the context of digital transformation (DT). Data sharing appears as a precondition for companies to capture emerging opportunities in supply chain management and for product-related servitization; however, there are ongoing concerns, and data ar...
ThispaperproposesaclassificationframeworkofnationalIndustry4.0 policies based on previous contributions applied to different contexts. The sample selected for the study consists of the world’s top 12 manufacturing countries and includes both developing and developed countries. (Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Russia...
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A positive outlook on the impact of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) on sustainability prevails in the literature. However, some studies have highlighted potential areas of concern that have not yet been systematically addressed. The goal of this study is to challenge the assumption of a sustainable Fourth Industrial Revolution by (1) identifying the po...
This article examines the reasons that drive companies to leave Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000)-the main auditable corporate social responsibility standard-and which alternative paths they undertake after the abandonment. As decertification from SA8000 is an under-researched phenomenon, an exploratory approach based on the analysis of 15 multi-...
This article outlines the main methodological implications of using Bloomberg SPLC, FactSet Supply Chain Relationships, and Mergent Supply Chain for academic purposes. These databases provide secondary data on buyer-supplier relationships that have been publicly disclosed. Despite the growing use of these databases in supply chain management (SCM)...
Although protecting information is the key challenge in a business environment characterized by increasing digitalization and connectivity, the impact of firms' investments in information security on their financial performance is unclear. In this paper, we focus on ISO/IEC 27001 (i.e., the most renowned norm in the field and the fourth most widesp...
Purpose-In recent years, many companies have decided to decertify from their previously adopted corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards. The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon by focusing on the most important auditable CSR standard: Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000).
Design/methodology/approach-First, an event study is perfo...
Purpose - This paper aims to offer a long-term systematic picture of the evolution of manufacturing offshoring (in terms of intensity, geography and drivers) highlighting the changes in the surrounding context and the resulting transitions points ("points in time") that have shaped its development path.
Design/methodology/approach - Three statist...
Purpose - In a world characterised by increasing environmental and social awareness, the number of corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives has significantly grown. Among these, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is one of the most important, involving more than 12,000 companies. The purpose of this study is to investiga...
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After 15 years of research, this paper aims to present a review of the academic literature on the ISO/IEC 27001, the most renowned standard for information security and the third most widespread ISO certification. Emerging issues are reframed through the lenses of social systems thinking, deriving a theory-based research agenda to inspire i...
Industry 4.0 is expected to impart profound changes to the configuration of manufacturing companies with regards to what their value proposition will be and how their production network, supplier base and customer interfaces will develop. The literature on the topic is still fragmented; the features of the emerging paradigm appear to be a contested...
The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is one of the most important corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives aimed at aligning companies' strategies and operations with principles that involve human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the relationship between UNGC adoption and fi...
The many scholars approaching Industry 4.0 today need to confront the lack of an agreed-upon definition, posing serious limitations to theory building and research comparability. Since its initial German conceptualization in 2011, both the technological landscape and the understanding of the Industry 4.0 have evolved significantly leading to severa...
Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) has been subjected to a number of examinations, all concluding that PSM is not an academic discipline as it lacks its own theories and common themes of research. It is perceived by many as an applied social science and field of research applying theories from other disciplines. But, to date, these examinations...
The role of the country, either home or host, in firms' internationalization has been widely analysed in the International Business field. A large number of studies have shown that home country shapes many aspects of firms' internationalization processes such as investment decisions, location selections, and entry modes. However, these studies main...
Environmental sustainability has gained momentum in the business world and academia. After about 20 years of research in this field, this paper presents a holistic literature review specifically focused on ISO 14001, which is widely considered the most important environmental certification. The authors apply an antecedents-process-consequences fram...
The Entry Mode (EM) choice is a fundamental issue in reshoring initiatives. Despite several authors have studied the determinants of offshoring EM, no study has investigated so far the factors affecting the reshoring EM and its relation with the offshoring EM. The purpose of this paper is to examine which factors influence entry mode choice in resh...
A very important decision for multinational companies’ managers concerns what activities, phases and competences should be located in the home country and what could instead be offshored. Our study seeks to support them in this choice by answering to the following questions: (a) should the specializations assigned to foreign plants be different fro...
Purpose. The aim of this paper is to shed light on the relationship between the adoption
of SA8000 – which is considered the most important ethical certification standard – and
firm performance, building on agency and contingency theories.
Design/methodology/approach. We analyse secondary longitudinal balance sheet data
of listed firms employing a...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop a synthesised conceptual framework for global sourcing (GS) strategy and structure.
Design/methodology/approach – We adopted a systematic literature review method and analysed through content analysis techniques 50 peer-reviewed journal articles focused on global sourcing strategy and structure. Bas...
Build–operate–transfer (BOT) is a well-established solution used in the engineering and construction industries for building different types of infrastructure (e.g. railways, highways, power plants). In recent years, BOT has increasingly been adopted by companies in the service industry as a mode for entering foreign markets. BOT in service offshor...
The original paper investigated, with a case study method, the different forms of co-design, i.e. the joint development of products and processes by customer and supplier. Four types of co-design are identified, according to the type of knowledge transferred (product or process) and the degree of interaction between the parties (loose or tight). Re...
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– The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for the analysis of reshoring. The framework is then applied to analyze motivations for reshoring, as they emerge from extant literature and from new evidence collected.
Design/methodology/approach
– The authors start by formulating a literature-grounded definition of reshoring and revi...
Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000) was one of the first auditable social standards aimed at promoting labour rights for workers around the world. This certification is currently considered the most important in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR). After approximately 15 years of research on SA8000, we provide the first literature re...
PurposeThe first aim of the chapter is to offer a characterization of back-reshoring as a possible step of the firm’s nonlinear internationalization process. The second aim is to review the empirical literature on back-reshoring and to complement it with the findings of an extensive data collection.
Methodology/approachIn this chapter we adopted an...
Purpose – This paper deals with the global sourcing organisational design issue by addressing the following research questions: 1) “What are the roles performed by an International Purchasing Office (IPO)?” 2) “What are the resources/capabilities required by an IPO to an effective role performance?” 3) “How does the organizational profile (i.e., ro...
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– The purpose of this paper is to address global sourcing organisational design through the following research questions: how do the roles performed by International Purchasing Offices (IPOs) change over time?; what are the resources/capabilities required by an IPO for an effective performance and how do they change over time?; and what are...
The relationship between CSR practices and firm performances is a widely discussed and still open research topic. This paper is however to the best of our knowledge the first one to study the effects of the most important ethical third-party certification standard (i.e., SA8000) on performances and the factors affecting them. We analyse secondary l...
International Purchasing Offices (IPOs) now play an increasingly important role in the management of international sourcing activities, both in developed and emerging economies. The relevance of this organisational solution and the relatively limited research that has been published so far in the P&SCM literature make the “IPO” topic particularly p...
The term ‘countertrade’ refers to a set of (commercial) agreements
between a buyer and a seller in which the primary transaction is accompanied
by a variety of additional conditions. This trade form is very relevant:
the estimates provided by the literature show that up to 30% of the total value
of international transactions depends on these agreem...
Over the past years, use of the terms like “on-shoring”, “re-shoring” and “back-shoring” has multiplied dramatically, especially in economics journalism and in consulting firms’ white papers. More recently, the topic has also attracted academic attention. Notwithstanding this increasing attention, reliable and quantitative evidence on the extent of...
Over the past five years, use of the term "back-shoring" (and of its apparent synonyms) has multiplied dramatically, especially in economics journalism and in consulting firms' white papers. More recently, the topic has prompted academic investigation too, despite the lack of reliable data. This paper aims to establish the importance of manufacturi...
This Handbook is the first substantive, multi-disciplinary academic work to make coherent analysis of supply systems from the perspective of purchasing and supply, operations management, logistics, supply chain management, service management, industrial or relationship marketing, and inter-organization networks. Selected by a team of leading intern...
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– Service outsourcing/offshoring represents an increasing phenomenon. Several factors (e.g. cost reduction, flexibility, access to new technologies and skills, access to new markets, focus on core activities) motivate the location of (IT or business) processes abroad and/or out of the companies' boundaries. This choice determines also relev...
The paper is focused on a phenomenon – the so called “back-shoring” (often indicated also as “onshoring”,
“in-shoring”, “re-shoring”, “reverse-shoring”, “international re-concentration”, “reverseglobalization”,
even if they are not always considered synonymous) – which is becoming more and
more diffused in the last years. Notwithstanding this incre...
Manufacturing internationalisation is a phenomenon that currently involves several industrial districts. While the literature on industrial districts is wide, few works analyse the (manufacturing) internationalisation dynamics. This study tries to fill this lack by analysing forms, motivation, obstacles and results of the foreign direct investments...
Ranked as the second most important growing economy in the world, India represents one of the most interesting sourcing and selling markets. A real 'global strategy' cannot ignore it. © Guido Nassimbeni and Marco Sartor 2008. Foreword Emma Bonino 2008. All rights reserved.
Thanks to low labour costs, the wide use of English and the availability of a large well educated workforce with experience in the field of IT, India has become one of the most attractive sourcing pools in the world, the preferred place for service offshoring.
In this chapter we will propose a synthesis of literature on service off-shoring.
During its history India rarely was a unified entity: local dynasties, foreign invasions, colonial possession have followed one another, creating cultural, linguistic and religious specificities. However, in the past some unifying elements developed, which have helped to form Indian society since the Medieval Ages. Gathering these elements is impor...
The regulation frame foreign investors find in India is diversified. It was born as legacy of the colonial period and it was influenced by the English law system; then it experienced openings and closures according to the political orientation in force, and in 1991 it followed a liberalistic orientation that maintains some limits till now.
The group of innovations identified through the acronym ICT (Information & Communication Technology) allows (often quickly and cheaply) the digitalization, storing and transferring of information in any part of the world connected to the web. This change modified the geographic distribution of several value chain activities and made “merchantable”...
The transport system in India — covering a surface of 3.3 million square kilometres — is nowadays one of the largest in the world.
The Accenture case study, analysing the organizational best practices of a well known international service provider, allows the study in detail of the strategy of providing offshoring/outsourcing services through a western intermediary.
China is one of the most attractive sourcing basins thanks to the low cost of manpower, the rapid increase in the quality and quantity of its products, the availability of major logistic platforms, and the possibility of justifying a commercial presence in the market that is potentially the biggest of the world. Taking into consideration the import...
Creating an international purchasing office (IPO) is one of the most frequently adopted solutions by companies to manage their international sourcing activities. Despite the increasing importance of this solution for international supply management, the literature still offers limited studies on it. This research, which forms part of an EU project...
This book highlights the inducements, advantages and obstacles faced by enterprises in the development of a sourcing channel in China. A taxonomy of the sourcing typologies is proposed and a normative model is described choice. The book examines the paths leading to an effective sourcing channel and International Purchasing Office in China.
Despite the increasing importance of international sourcing (IS), the literature still lacks empirical investigations and theoretical models that give cognitive and normative references on the phenomenon. This study proposes the first extensive analysis on IS dynamics in Italy, quantifying the size of IS in this context and describing some of its a...
In the previous chapter various types of sourcing were explained. On the basis of this classification it is now our intention to provide some useful suggestions for the choice and design of a purchasing channel in the Chinese market. The failure or the difficulties that enterprises meet during realization of such a channel derive from the absence o...
Following the opening of the People’s Republic of China to foreign direct investments in 1979, it has been necessary to define a set of rules (which was completely missing) that could regulate and at the same time attract these investments. The increase of inflow of foreign capital into the country registered in recent years and the adjustment requ...
In this chapter, some topics – introduced in the previous chapters and corresponding to critical issues relating to sourcing in China – will be reconsidered. In the first section, the importance of intermediation and the corresponding changes are pointed out. In the second section, some critical issues linked to the creation of organizational infra...
The Black&Decker group, world-wide leader in the electrical and gardening tools industry, has approximately 32,000 employees and a turnover of more than 4,500 million dollars. The group trades in all the main markets and stands out for the numerous factories, every one of which realizes a limited range of products that are distributed world-wide.
The data concerning the China phenomenon reported in the previous chapter clearly explain why enterprises are looking at this market with a growing interest. Notwithstanding its importance, only a few studies have been conducted on IS from China. Various studies have been published in recent years on Chinese economic and political geography issues....
The main difficulties in the interaction between western countries (in particular European countries) and China are often ascribed to the cultural gap existing among peoples with different histories and customs. The following section of this chapter on China’s geo-economic scenario focuses on the historical events of this country. It gives an overv...
Transport represents a complexity factor for sourcing in general, and for sourcing from China in particular. This chapter offers a brief overview of the current transport situation in China. Starting with a brief description of the infrastructural evolution of the last decade, the main transport types (rail, air, road and ship) are examined, and th...
The expression ‘international sourcing’ (IS) refers to the purchase of materials, components, and finished products from foreign suppliers. There are different types of sourcing according to the geographical extension of the supplying area, to the international distribution of the company production structures, to the existence of a strategy in whi...
The enterprises we have analysed show that sourcing activities in China may depend considerably on some structural characteristics: the presence of governmental limitations in vendor selections, the presence and the kind of possible (inter)mediation forms (third parties), the content of the customer–supplier interactions, the establishment of equit...
The present study focuses on one of the most important Italian local manufacturing systems: the chair district. Over 1200 companies operate here producing more than 44 million chairs a year, which is 80% of the entire Italian production. This district is going though a phase of transformation induced by the opportunities and threats typical of the...
In recent years, Supply Chain Management has gained greater attention from academics and managers concerned to improve process efficiencies; and take best advantage of information technology and inter-organizational networks and relationships. This book brings together leading experts to provide a reference point for developments and issues in the...
Fuzzy methodology appears to be one of the most promising tools for managing the ambiguity and indetermination that characterize the evaluation of suppliers' contribution to product development. This kind of evaluation, in fact, is particularly complex, given the difficulty in identifying, circumscribing and quantifying the supplier's co-design per...
This study describes the results of an empirical research on a sample of small and medium enterprises belonging to one of Italy's most important local manufacturing systems: the eyewear district. The main objective of the project was to suggest ways of improving new product development within the small and medium enterprises of the district. Data w...
In the era of global economy, are local manufacturing systems still playing a role or are they destined to fade away? No unequivocal answer to this question can be found in the literature. Some think that globalization exposes all the limits of local industrial systems. Others consider the contraposition between global and local to be only apparent...
In the era of global economy, are local manufacturing systems still playing a role or are they destined to fade away? No unequivocal answer to this question can be found in the literature. Some think that globalization exposes all the limits of local industrial systems. Others consider the contraposition between global and local to be only apparent...
Quale futuro per i distretti industriali? (di Guido Nassimbeni) - ABSTRACT: This present study focuses on one of the Italian more important local systems: the eyewear district. On the base of an empirical research, the study analyses the evolution of the eyewear industry, the strategic responses operated by the larger producers to the current compe...
The abundant literature on what determines the export propensity and intensity of firms pays limited attention to some organisational and operational management variables, especially where small enterprises are concerned. It could be argued, however, that new effective organisation schemes and advanced operational management practices are required...
A framework for the analysis and measurement of the support given by the supplier to the buyer's new product development activities is described. Having consulted the literature on best practices in product development, 14 criteria were individuated. This assessment framework was implemented and tested in a major company in the Northwest of Italy,...
This study proposes a predictive model of the export attitude of small manufacturing firms. On the basis of an empirical investigation carried out on a sample of small units, exporters and non-exporters are compared in terms of technology and ability to innovate, besides a number of other structural factors. Using as predictors some of the more dis...
This paper examines the role of supplier development in establishing and managing efficient buyer-supplier operational links. The paper develops and assesses a measurement instrument for "operational" and "supplier development" just-in-time purchasing practices, followed by an examination of the relationships between the two sets, and an investigat...
This paper presents the results of an empirical study on a sample of 165 small manufacturing firms located in the north-east of Italy. The main research topics are the innovation processes within these small units and their relationships with the firm's performance and structural aspects. The study depicts the technological, organisational and mana...
On the basis of empirical research on a sample of Italian plants, this study: (i) analyses the relationships between advanced buyer-supplier operational interaction practices (design link, logistic link, quality link) and the basic options of the buyer's purchasing strategy, e.g. sources selection criteria, supply base reduction policies, long-term...
On the basis of an empirical research on a sample of Italian plants, this study analyses the relationships between advanced buyer-supplier operational interaction practices (JIT, CE and TQM Approaches) and the basic options of the buyer’s purchasing strategy, such as: sources selection criteria, supply base reduction policies, long-term supply pers...
The authors present a framework which describes the intensity of application of the main product development techniques and methodologies (grouped into six classes) in relation to some project complexity variables (product specification, product complexity and project scope). The framework is tested using a case-study approach: four successful firm...
Notwithstanding the extensive body of literature, there is still confusion surrounding the concept of “network” since it encompasses a variety of inter-organisational relationships. By adopting the Mintzberg’s approach on organisational structures and co-ordination mechnisms, this work proposes a framework for the classification of the main network...
Presents an original integrated production performance measurement system (IP2MS) based on a model able to examine simultaneously several production performances of different operation centres of a firm. The need for an integrated examination of the performances is of crucial importance for today’s manufacturers in order to achieve a competitive ad...
Based on empirical research, presents an interpretative model of the dynamics occurring in the subcontracting relationships between large purchasers and small subcontractors. Shows that the small units often supply a product that is not sufficiently differentiated and technologically advanced; are for the most part dependent on a few large purchase...
Describes a production scheduler, which utilizes a hybrid push/pull approach to scheduling and exploits the expert system technology in order to obtain satisfactory solutions. The scheduler is applied to a multi-stage production and inventory system, managed by make-to-order, with a large variety of incoming orders. The search for solution is made...
This study analyses the intensity and nature of the relationship between the principal operational Just-In-Time Purchasing practices, i.e. the practices that create the link between the buyer's and supplier's operation chains. Such practices are frequently discussed in the literature on JIT Purchasing, but few studies examine the relationships betw...
This study concerns networks whose elements are made up of manufacturing units linked by supply relationships. The authors, comparing the evolution of two industrial districts, analyse the variables that determine or impede the formation of strong linked buyer-suppliers systems, influence the network stability and fashion the logistic pipeline mapp...
An instrument for evaluating the quality performance measurement level and the quality performance results is presented. The instrument is based on the classification of quality in categories and classes; for each of them, the objects of the evaluation, the methodologies, techniques and indicators most useful and used for the quality measurement an...
The authors provide the results of an empirical research carried out in north-east Italy and completed in 1992, which was aimed at investigating the rapport between large manufacturers operating on the multidomestic and global markets and the small local supplying concerns. This research identifies that the globalization process has had a strong im...
Analyses the dimensions of service in the co-operative buyer-supplier interaction and presents an interpretative scheme which links some of the basic service management concepts with some critical aspects in the current supply environment. On the basis of the results from a case study of the Zanussi Appliances Company (Electrolux Group), examines t...
Present-day competitiveness has brought about a marked evolution in
supply management, imposing on firms an increasingly close interaction
with suppliers. The achievement of high-level performances in terms of
cost, quality and time to market appears ever more dependent on the
quality and effectiveness of the supply network. This transformation
mod...
The achievement of high level performances in terms of cost, quality and time to market appears more and more dependent on the quality and efficiency of the supply network. Thus, it is becoming ever more necessary to share and synchronise the expertise possessed by each side involved, that is to create an integrated production system extended to th...
The decisions regarding the size and the production release of lots are of fundamental importance in the productive contexts working on lots: the level of client service, the entity of work-in-process and the respect for delivery times depend on these decisions. The authors have developed a model for the realization of a “ruled-based” expert system...