Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how multinational corporations (MNCs)
orchestrate internal and external resources to help their multi-tier supply chains learn …

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is a topic that has become increasingly
important in recent years. However, very few papers focus on studying SSCM from both …

Purpose This study examines the effect of supply chain (SC) learning (ie supplier and
customer learnings) on green innovation (ie green product and process innovations) and …

Extending the resource-based view that location characteristics influence firms' resources
and internationalization, we argue that the global value chains (GVCs) of lead firms from …

This article analyses technology upgrading in global value-chains, by using unique data
from the Swedish-based home-furnishing retailer IKEA and 23 of its suppliers in China and …

Global competition means that firms are under pressure to systematically develop the
efficiency of their manufacturing processes. However, little has been said in the international …

We use detailed firm-level data from 2008 to show how the world's largest home-furnishing
retailer, IKEA from Sweden, provides its suppliers in China and SE Asia with significant …

Purpose This study aims to assess the importance of transformational leadership
competencies, as well as supply chain learning, to green innovation in construction at the …

This paper focuses on the impact of vertical knowledge transfer from foreign affiliates of
Transnational Corporations (TNCs) to indigenous Polish suppliers. Firm-level data was …

Purpose–Inter‐firm learning, or dyadic learning, has been studied extensively in recent
years: however very little attention has been devoted to extending the concept to an …