Yongjiang Shi

Yongjiang Shi
University of Cambridge | Cam ·  Institute for Manufacturing

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This study presents a new framework for evaluating data asset quality using a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach that integrates the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL), best-worst method (BWM), and fuzzy-technique for order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) techniques. First, the fr...
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Although emerging transformative supply chain management research offers novel insights into tackling extreme conditions beyond the traditional static and engineering view of supply chain management literature, relatively less is known about the underlying mechanisms of such a supply chain transformation process. Through a qualitative study underta...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of data assets and how companies can assetize their data. Using the literature review methodology, the paper first summarizes the conceptual controversies over data assets in the existing literature. Subsequently, the paper defines the concept of data assets. Finally, keywords from the exi...
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Climate change is global challenge and decarbonisation becomes top agenda for manufacturing firms. As it is generally recognized that only the measured get managed, an understanding and measuring of the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) is now needed. International standards have provided the basic steps for carbon footprint measurement, yet, in pract...
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Purpose – In the past two decades, manufacturing has witnessed significant transformations alongside ecological challenges. Meanwhile, industrial 4.0 digital technologies have accelerated industrialisation with potentials of innovation in the context of circular economy. However, current concepts and models are fragmented and impractical. This pape...
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While entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) are often regarded as spatially bounded resource allocation systems that allocate and mobilise resources for new venture creation, less is known on the underlying process of resource allocation that sustains the development and prosperity of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Following an inductive approach, we condu...
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This paper starts with exploring the nature of industrialisation, combined with the current hot research topic in the field of technology - digitization, and seeks to reveal the fusion process of industrialisation and digitization. The paper summarizes the authors' long-term research results on industrialisation and its industrial system into three...
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A business ecosystem is a community of multiple co-evolving actors with interdependent product offerings organized around a specific value proposition . While the extant literature focuses on these two structural elements of ecosystems that existed ex ante , we challenge this notion with our core discovery that ecosystem actors emerge in an ex post...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge and disruptive technological changes in the healthcare sector, transforming the way businesses and societies function. To respond to the global health crisis, there have been numerous innovation projects in the healthcare sector, including the fast design and manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE)...
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It is an important goal of China’s 2025 Strategy to build an environmental governance system with the government as the leading role, enterprises as the main body, and social organizations and the public all participate actively. In this context, whether and how small and micro enterprises, as a force of rejuvenating the country through science and...
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Through the establishment of a comprehensive evaluation index system, this paper analyzes the allocation of science and technology resources in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from 2014 to 2020, evaluates the allocation efficiency of science and technology resources from the perspective of multi input and output, and understands the adv...
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China has emerged as the second largest economy in the world during the globalization in the last forty years. However, in the last decade, Chinese manufacturing has also demonstrated its dark side causing wide range of concerns globally and directly jeopardize people’s health because of serious pollutions. How could the world keep its industrializ...
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From the perspective of the complex multi-factors that affect manufacturing green competitiveness, this study constructs a green competitiveness index measurement indicator system of manufacturing industry in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, which includes five dimensions: economic creativity, technological innovation, energy and environmen...
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As a response to the call for cumulative knowledge in ecosystem research, this paper focuses on ecosystem literature from the perspective of a focal firm. Through an in-depth analysis of modern and classic ecosystem conceptual works, this paper clarifies the theoretical underpinnings of the structure view and the coevolution view of ecosystems. Whe...
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In the era of “Industry 4.0”, individualized demand and small batch customization manufacturing will become the trend, which calls for strong capabilities of customer orientation and rapid reaction. In addition to the redesign of smart and autonomous production processes, the market-oriented frugal innovation is a valuable exploration under the fra...
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Purpose Prior studies on product standardization–adaptation in multinational corporations (MNCs) have revealed environmental factors that can influence the choices of MNCs. However, these studies have not shown how these choices are made behind the scenes in new product development (NPD). In many industries, MNCs face the dual pressures for product...
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This paper explores the effects of technology strategies (TSs) on latecomer firms’ catch-up progress. Based on the proposed typology, this work investigates catch-up theories by (1) comparing performance among different TS types and analyzing the causes of these differences and (2) exploring the impact of TS implementation during earlier phases on...
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While scholarly interest in corporate level business model (BM) portfolios is increasing, little is known on the BM portfolio extension process. Positing that a corporate ecosystem can serve as an important context of this process, this paper addresses this gap by analysing an e-commerce giant's BM-launch-events that plot its BM portfolio extension...
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Purpose This paper aims to make a systematic study on the factors that hinder the development of China’s intelligent automobile manufacturing industry; based on comprehensive understanding of these obstacles and by optimization means, ultimately, the healthy and sustainable development of intelligent automobile manufacturing industry in China can b...
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With the rising tide of globalization, urban branding campaigns have become the focal points of decision makers and planners aiming to establish city reputations and to achieve long-term urban prosperity. This paper, therefore, aims to develop a sustainability-oriented city branding framework that incorporates (1) comprehensive perceptions from var...
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There was a strong movement for multinational corporations (MNCs) from developed countries to establish a transnational configuration of engineering capabilities in other developed countries in the 1980s and 1990s, and in emerging economies in the new millennium. In the last decade, MNCs from emerging countries such as China are trying to move up t...
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Manufacturing industry has been experiencing dramatic evolutions in last three decades. The boundaries of a manufacturing system are extended from factory towards various types of network relationships. The missions of manufacturing system are transformed and redefined. The output scopes are also expanded into servitisation from traditional product...
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Based on a third-party platform for evaluating supplier sustainability, transnational companies can effectively monitor how much efforts and improvements their global suppliers have made in sustainability. However, methods on the basis of the platform for evaluating and calculating the weights of indexes and values suffered from a lack of accuracy....
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Despite numerous studies on modularity, the modularization processes have received less attention. In the global context, product modularity can be leveraged to satisfy heterogeneous market requirements across countries with low costs. Through a longitudinal case study of HomeTech, we examined how multinational R&D created an effective organization...
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Scientists are becoming more entrepreneurial in trying to commercialise their findings as new technologies and products. However, academic research focuses very little on the commercialisation process and the management tools needed by entrepreneurial scientists. This paper looks at commercialisation from scientists’ viewpoint seeking to develop ne...
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In today’s world, research institutes are playing an increasingly important role in bringing new technology to market. Researchers and scientists are becoming more entrepreneurial in trying to commercialize their findings as new technologies and products. However, academic research focuses very little on the whole commercialization process and the...
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The paper develops the structure of business ecosystems, operating mechanisms and integrated configuration models by examining multiple case studies of electric vehicle (EV) producers in China and the EU (Germany, France and Denmark). The EV ecosystem can be categorized into four paradigms using a target market (mainstream or niche innovation) and...
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This paper investigates how emerging carbon emission costs may affect the joint production and location decisions for a manufacturer across the world's regions. Specifically, we develop a new theoretical model which explicitly links product demand, production costs and carbon emission levels to location decisions, and investigate the manufacturer's...
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To date, research has mainly discussed the definition and classification of producer services. Yet many companies require an integrated solution of products and producer services. The aim of this paper is to propose a model of the ecological evolution of manufacturing service systems (MSS) driven by service providers. This model adopts modular thin...
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International product strategy regarding global standardisation and local adaptation is one of the challenges faced by multinational corporations (MNCs). Studies in this area have tested the antecedents and consequences of standardisation/adaptation, but lack a new product development (NPD) perspective. In this study, we explore how product standar...
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This article presents a structural equation model for exploring the impact of social responsibility, which been divided into responsibility for the internal stakeholder and responsibility for the external stakeholder, as well as internal governance on Chinese manufacturing growth on the basis of data collected from 500 manufacturing enterprises in...
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The article proposed an index system based on social responsibility, including the main index of Employee dimen-sion, Government dimension, Customer dimension, Business partner dimension, Ecological benefits dimension and the sub- index which comprised 18 indexes to evaluate the automotive manufacturers competitiveness. Based on the index system, a...
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This paper explores the development of the Chinese EV demonstration programmes through the conceptual lens of the business ecosystem framework. At present, government is acting as an ecosystem orchestrator promoting different types of business models such that the Battery Swapping Model in Hangzhou and Battery Charging Model in Shenzhen are co-exis...
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Despite the seminal works of authors like Bartlett, Ghoshal, Nohria, Doz, Williamson, among others, because they focused on mature multinationals, newcomers in international markets find scarce information about the design and implementation of international operations networks. In this paper we analyze the internationalization process of Brazilian...
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The rise of emerging country multinationals (EMNEs) is opening new perspectives for the study of international operations management (IOM). Research may address issues which are inexistent when the object of study is long-established developed country multinationals (DMNEs). One of the issues that may be noticed, and will be studied in this article...
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The global manufacturing network is a geographically dispersed production or an operations subsidiary, similar to a factory, network for a product family, and owned or partly owned by a multinational corporation. Keywords: global manufacturing network
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This paper aims to discuss the low carbon practices development in manufacturing companies. As the environmental-friendly pressure and internal energy-saving motivation are growing, firms start to implement de-carbonization projects across their supply chain. This study conducts case studies to these projects in 11 companies. A process framework of...
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This paper adopts bibliometric analysis on 621 literatures on multinational corporations’ (MNC) R&D internationalisation from various fields to identify key patterns of this research topic. Bibliographic data of these literatures are collected from ISI Web of Knowledge with specific search criteria (e.g. from 1965 to 2013). A generic approach of bi...
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This paper presents four innovative business models that are being developed in three countries to support the commercialisation of electric vehicles (EVs). Using an original business model framework and interviews with EV company founders and directors, we analyse the coexistence of competing business models (China) and partnership strategies alon...
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For multinational corporations, global product standardization and local product adaptation have long been regarded as trade-off decisions. In this study, we shift the attention to underlying logics, operation efficiency and market fulfillment, which are competing under market demand heterogeneity. Drawing on studies relevant to competing logics (a...
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Learning from the three cases, by combining the common features of each phase, this chapter is to develop the typical life cycle of a business ecosystem. Moore’s life cycle was mainly developed from a stable PC industry, while our data was collected from the emerging mobile computing with very dynamic and uncertain nature, which will update Moore’s...
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MediaTek (MTK), founded in 1997,1 was a leading IC design company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions. The company was a market leader and well known for its single-chip solutions for mobile chips, digital TV, DVD and VCD products. MTK got the reputation mostly because of their Turnkey solutions (single-chip solution) for m...
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This chapter concludes the book by summarising the research findings, discussing their theoretical and practical implications, and suggesting future research directions as below: It reviews the research question and specific research objectives It summarises four main research findings including the life cycle of business ecosystems, BE constructiv...
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This chapter categorises the different configuration patterns of business ecosystems through the data gathered from exploratory and main cases. The outcome of this chapter focuses on the following objectives: To identify business ecosystem configuration patterns by two dimensions reflected from two of the key representative constructive elements —...
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Intel is an IDM (Integrated Device Manufacturer) company and is the top player in the semiconductor industry. Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, based in Santa Clara, California. Intel mostly focused on the computer processor unit (CPU) and also made motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded process...
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ARM is the world’s leading semiconductor IP (intellectual property) supplier. IP1 is designed to generate a specific function, which is equivalent to the heart of semiconductor chips. ARM has offered the IP license business model to those IC design companies. Following the business model, IC design companies develop their chips by combining differe...
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By studying exploratory cases in the mobile computing industry, this chapter seeks to explore and discuss emerging industrial issues with which the business ecosystem research is booming.
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The five-phase business ecosystem life cycle (BELC) has been developed as well as the ecosystems’ construct and configuration patterns along the life cycle. This chapter especially addresses the question of how firms nurture business ecosystems under the life-cycle stages: how they deal with the business ecosystems’ constructive elements and develo...
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This chapter has two aims: to discuss the key research framework and research questions; to develop the appropriate research methodology for this research including the choice of research methodology, procedure, data collection and analysis. All of those methods will ensure the rigorous research with internal validity, construct validity, external...
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As learned from the review of existing literature, the constructs of a business ecosystem should be addressed further as the system could be understood through exploring its constructive elements (Von Bertalanffy 1969). Accordingly, many scholars applied this constructs study to different levels of manufacturing systems: in 1984, Hayes and Wheelwri...
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In the past 20 years, the business ecosystem theory has captured the attention and fired the imagination of many involved in industrial innovation and manufacturing transformation. However, the concepts, boundaries and theoretical systems are still not comprehensively explored and structured. In order to tackle how a company can nurture its busines...
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Previous studies related to global product standardization draw different conclusions. The complexity of this issue is caused by contextual factors such as degree of homogeneity of market demands across countries. In this article, we believe it is meaningful to study standardization in the context of heterogeneous market demands across countries an...
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This paper explores how carbon traders nurture the business ecosystem to sustain the emerging carbon trading industry development. We collected primary data from a multinational carbon trader and its ecosystem partners in China, through the construction of interviews and documentary. The research findings show the carbon trading industry has experi...
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Global manufacturing networks and supply chains are facing ongoing dynamic changes in the evolutionary business ecosystems. The introduction of new process technologies and the advances in manufacturing intelligence capabilities are having profound effects on the strategies, decisions, management, and operations involved in manufacturing (Chien et...
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Nowadays, technology has played important role in the society and even shaped the way business operates. However, there is also an awareness of the “soft sides” of business, among which is the inter-firm trust. This is particularly observed in the animation game industry where increasingly more internationalization and inter-firm collaboration take...
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This paper explores how technology intensive manufacturing firms operate to achieve rapid new product volume ramp-up capabilities within an international collaborative supply network. An exploratory multiple-case longitudinal research methodology was adopted involving three large Japanese Multinational Corporations and their respective internationa...
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Despite their heavy dependence on international markets, small developing countries or small states have been underrepresented in the internationalization literature. Unlike developed or large developing countries, small states face dual constraints of relatively weak institutions and a narrow resource base along with an open market environment. A...
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Taking the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Theory of Perceived Value as theoretical frameworks, this study analyzes what and how perceived capability and perceived value affect consumers' decision-making behavior in their online shopping. In particular, the study examines the influence of perceived capability, perceived trust, perceived risk, pe...
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Network concepts have been widely reported in the current literature on international engineering operations. However, a systematic view of the unique nature of engineering is missing, and its implications for the design and operations of global engineering networks are poorly understood. This article has been written to address the above-mentioned...
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Taking the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Theory of Perceived Value as theoretical frameworks, this study analyzes what and how perceived capability and perceived value affect consumers decision-making behavior in their online shopping. In particular, the study examines the influence of perceived capability, perceived trust, perceived risk, per...
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The speed of changes in the global business environment has pushed European multinationals to employ staff from its foreign subsidiaries, to take over some corporate activities in a third country. This is the case with Latin American executives working in China, that face not only the culture shock, but are immersed in a complex chain of command be...
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Many manufacturing firms are expanding their global footprint to explore new opportunities for efficient and effective production. The strategic perspective on international manufacturing networks involves both the network level and the plant level. A key aspect is the relationship between the network and the role of plants. In this research, we in...
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This paper provides a conceptual framework to explore the linking mechanisms between customer knowledge management and IT-based business model innovation. With a case study from a Chinese leading telecommunications company, this paper attempts to empirically justify the model. In this conceptual model, three types of customer-related knowledge (i.e...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which firms nurture the business ecosystem for the development of emerging industries. Design/methodology/approach The research uses a qualitative research methodology with multiple case studies, namely two groups of companies in the PC and mobile business ecosystems. Findings This paper...
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Purpose ‐ The purpose of this paper is to propose a research design that seeks to explore the evolutionary pathways of the emerging electric vehicle (EV) industry through employing the business ecosystem framework, which focuses on the interaction between firms, government officials, industrial associations and customers; and at the same time to id...
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The second part of this article reports our query into the essential characteristics of effective engineering networks in the current business environments through case studies focusing on engineering design, manufacturing engineering, and engineering services. The engineering networks of four global leading companies were studied to refine, enrich...
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This paper explores platform strategies along the business ecosystem lifecycle (BELC), based on a multiple-case study. Developing observations on platform strategies from a firm level to a business ecosystem level, the study investigates the issue of platform strategy through three views, respectively technology, application and organisation. As a...
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This paper studies how the technological ecosystem extension facilitates the technology substitution in an emerging industry. Specifically, this paper has three findings: 1) the technological ecosystem with an expanded scope including supply, demand and intermediaries; 2) two type of ecosystem extension as the bottom-up and top-down ecosystem exten...
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This chapter provides the models and variation of culture. Specifically, the following concepts will be introduced: an understanding of the original of culture and how culture is studies in the academic field; the most influential culture theories which are adapted in business and management research. A detailed exploration on the methodology, dime...
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Servitization (Vandermerwe and Rada, 1988), as a process of value-creation through bundling services to physical products, has been broadly recognized as a competitive manufacturing strategy to the conventional manufacturer in many industries. It was found that the conventional manufacturers can achieve more revenue from their service units (Quinn...
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The aim of this paper is to propose a comprehensive research framework seeking to decipher the evolutionary development of emerging business ecosystems and to identify the necessary strategic capabilities which enable the transformation of business ecosystems from one stage to the next along its life-cycle. Initial findings from exploratory case st...
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The purpose of this research paper is to extend business ecosystem theories into the emerging industries, through conducting multiple case studies with firms along the supply chain of the Chinese Electric Vehicle Industry, as well as the policy makers and associated industrial players. The constructive elements of the emerging EV business ecosystem...
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This article presents an 80-year historical study of the evolution of a multinational company’s manufacturing network. The study is based on business transactions and semi-structured interviews with managers. Company milestones and evolutionary stages emerged from the analysis and two evolutionary characteristics were identified; capability explora...
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The speed of changes in the global business environment has pushed European multinationals to employ staff from its foreign subsidiaries, to take over some corporate activities in a third country. This is the case with Latin American executives working in China, that face not only the culture shock, but are immersed in a complex chain of command be...
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Purpose Based on the theory of habitual domain, the purpose of this paper is to explore inter‐firm networks' mechanisms for coping with environmental change and for assisting firms to adapt to their collaborative networks. Business globalization is driving more and more individual firms to form inter‐firm collaborative networks. These networks need...
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The main purpose of this research is to identify the configuration structure of a service supply chain from a view of modularity, to address the operations mechanism of the service supply chain from the perspective of service-dominant logic. Literature review and case study are adopted in this research. Data are mainly collected through interview a...
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This paper addresses the gap in operations management literature concerning the interrelationship between the globalisation of R&D and production and attempts to explore how R&D and production interact with each other in their globalisation. Based on two case studies, this paper identifies two approaches for the globalisation of R&D and production....

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