How does financial slack affect the firm performance of small and medium-sized
manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs)? By integrating the literature on financial slack and the …

Current global problems like the pandemic or the war in Ukraine have raised new aspects of
make-or-buy decisions. Many companies consider shortening their supply chains or even …

After decades of off-shoring strategies, companies are often critically re-evaluating their
earlier location decisions; in doing so, sometimes they implement the so-called relocation of …

Learning-by-doing is an important concept in economics as it is one of the main driving
forces of economic progress. However, corporate learning is a slow process, so outsourcing …

Using panel data of 1080 multinational corporations (MNCs) from the United States, we
examine the effects of environmental sustainability practices on the degree of firms' …

Abstract Knowledge management and manufacturing relocation have been treated as
independent spheres. However, for a relocation to be fruitful, knowledge management …

Recently, there has been increasing attention on the speed versus quality paradox in
operations and innovation management literature. This study examines the innovation …

Despite the well-acknowledged benefits of global sourcing (eg, location specific advantage)
in the international business literature, research driven mainly by the transaction cost …

Although small and medium-sized enterprises increasingly utilize global sourcing strategies
which involve the spatial relocation of their business activities, little is known about the …

The objective of this chapter is to analyze the impact (if any) of Industry 4.0 enabling
technology on firms' decision to relocate to the home country their offshored production …