Global Sourcing
Global Sourcing
... Growth of international specialization has been a dominant feature of the inter- national economy. Amongst the many examples that illustrate this trend, two are particularly telling. Citing Tempest (1996), Feenstra ...
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INFLUENCE OF GLOBAL SOURCING ON PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE OF MEGA PROJECTS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR IN KENYA
... of global sourcing, while Christopher et al (2011) adopts a multi-case study approach to study global sourcing risk ...of global sourcing on supplier integration and product ...
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Global sourcing and business networks: quality heterogeneity and firms efficiency
... of global sourcing on firms’ productivity and ...process. global sourcing can in fact raise productivity via several channels: specialisation, learning, variety and ...model, global ...
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Global Sourcing: Evidence from Spanish Firm-Level Data
... firms’ global sourcing decisions with regard to their own- ership structure and their locational choice of intermediate input production by exploring a firm-level panel data set covering the years ...four ...
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Sustainable global sourcing : A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis
... the global supply chain and, therefore, it is particularly worth investigating the potential implications of GS for sustainability performance ...Sustainable Global Sourcing (SGS), which is embedded ...
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Global sourcing s impact on sustainability: Vile or virtue?
... Based on an international large-scale survey covering 680 companies, this paper seeks to address the shortcomings of the present literature within the field of purchasing, by exploring three related issues. First, the ...
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Understanding Integrated Global Sourcing A Framework and Case Study
... their global supply chains was mentioned by almost 80% as a top priority and ...achieving global goals, understanding how to define and then operationalize this topic should be a major ...is global ...
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Effective Global Sourcing and Supply for Superior Results
... highest global sourcing level, have achieved the cross-locational integration that firms operating at the fourth level have also ...the sourcing of items or services to fulfill continuous demand or ...
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IKEA : Global sourcing and the sustainable leather initiative
... These sustainability related issues reflect the potential negative impact of activities along the leather supply chain on the environment, animal welfare, community, and human rights, which are difficult to track due to ...
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Assessing the value of agent certification in global sourcing: An exploratory study in apparel sourcing
... from global sourcing are significantly different in terms of several managerial/demographic ...classified sourcing into two groups, direct and indirect, depending on whether sourcing functions ...
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PREPARING ENGINEERING STUDENTS FOR THE GLOBAL SOURCING ENVIRONMENT. Faculty Paper Glogalization
... The global sourcing environment is an environment in which engineers regularly prepare specifications and sources sought documents, communicate specifications to potential partners and suppliers, conduct ...
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No 125. Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes. Christian Schwarz, Jens Suedekum
... study global sourcing in a property rights framework with incomplete ...hybrid sourcing, that is, for a firm structure where some suppliers are vertically integrated while the others remain ...
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Supplier Search and Re-matching in Global Sourcing - Theory and Evidence from China
... to global sourcing ...recently, global sourcing models had a hard time coming to grips with those empirical patterns about trial-and-error ...
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Global sourcing shifts in the U.S. textile and apparel industry: a cluster analysis
... Abernathy and co-workers (1999) provided the basis for an alternative interpretation of the shift to sourcing ‘nearer to home’. According to them, wage-cost considerations have little to do with it and ...
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Global sourcing: new research and education agendas for apparel design and merchandising
... of sourcing strategies, trade policy issues, and outcome analysis of successful global sourcing (Lu and Ha-Brookshire 2009; Su et ...at global sourcing itself as a core topic of inves- ...
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Offshoring and the Global Sourcing of Talent: Understanding the. New Frontier of Internationalization
... Hypothesis 5, according to which in the process of offshoring product development activities international experience is not a significant factor as it was for previous foreign expansion strategies, received strong ...
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DOES INSTITUTIONAL DISTANCE STILL MATTER? INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND GLOBAL SOURCING LOCATION CHOICES
... foreign sourcing facilities – and most of our control variables are derived from the ORN corporate ...their global sourcing strategies, drivers, perceived risks, outcomes, and future ...on ...
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The adoption of Global Sourcing by a Brazilian Company
... ABSTRACT: Companies are going abroad looking for advantages from alternative sources of supply. Primarily associated with the lack of local supplier or lower acquisitions costs, these reactive reasons have driven ...
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Global Sourcing of a Complex Good
... activities. It explains that …rms build production facilities in poor countries to gain access to low- cost production factors. Further more, the incomplete contracts literature, initiated by Grossman and Hart (1986) and ...
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Merchandising operation of Woolworths Global Sourcing
... As a student of Masters Business Administration (MBA) everyone has to conduct a practical orientation in any organization fulfilling requirement of the 12 weeks internship Program. The main purpose of the program is ...
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