Concerns about sustainability matters have been growing significantly during the last
decades. The triple bottom line approach–an often applied operationalization of …

The paper discusses manufacturing enterprises' compelling challenges that are directly
stemming from generic conflicts between competition and cooperation, local autonomy and …

The purpose of this article is to examine the conceptualization and evolution of the construct
of Organizational Competitiveness. The present study analyzed the existing literature about …

Tough competition in the current global economies has forced manufacturing enterprises,
especially small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) to collaborate with other …

To quantitatively analyze variation propagation in multistage machining processes, a
method of variation propagation analysis and variation source identification based on …

Smart Innovation is often considered as the capability of firms to create new opportunities
through a dynamic relationship with the main actors in their setting, fostering higher …

This paper aims at providing some conceptual references to academics and practitioners
useful for guiding the strategic planning process in alliance formation. Research on strategic …

Purpose–Many research studies in operations management (OM) and strategic
management (SM) investigate how different kinds of firm decisions regarding business …

The aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory investigation on the type of competitive
strategies that are likely to be associated with different networking profiles. We focus our …

Capacities of the world shipbuilding industry have been dominated by three major countries
which are South Korea, China and Japan. The ship tonnage proportion they have been built …