The ongoing and ubiquitous digital transformation challenges the raison d'être of firms and
forces managers to rethink business strategies and operations and academics to reconsider …

Locational aspects of a firm's value chain configuration are recently gaining increasing
attention by academics, practitioners, and policymakers. In this vein, the international …

This article provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple
legally autonomous entities, which we call meta‐organizations. We assess the antecedents …

In this textbook, Heizer (business administration, Texas Lutheran U.) and Render
(operations management, Rollins College) provide a broad introduction to the field of …

Conic optimization is a significant and thriving research area within the optimization
community. Conic optimization is the general class of problems concerned with optimizing a …

Given today's rapidly shifting global competitive conditions—including customer location,
natural disasters, currency valuation, labor and transportation costs and availability—many …

Discussions on the potentials and risks of the relocation of manufacturing activities to low-
wage countries have resurged in recent years in the wake of a new globalisation debate …

Global sourcing is a complex area, and one that managers must get to grips with as
business investment in outsourcing continues to climb. This book provides invaluable …

Transaction cost economics (TCE) and the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm have been
extremely influential in the study of outsourcing both in theory and practice. This paper …

Increasingly, firms source more complex and strategic as well as harder to codify information
technology projects to low-cost offshore locations. Completing such projects successfully …