Whether firms should perform manufacturing activities on their own or buy them from an
external provider is a strategic question that many managers from all firm areas have …

Purpose This paper aims to examines the moderating effect of small vs large supply base
size on the relationship between strategic sustainable purchasing (SSP) and organizational …

Purpose For the past 20 years, Latin American countries have gone from being a low-cost
region to significant players in the world economy, with five of its countries ranked among …

Affected by complicated issues, such as regional conflicts, trade wars, and the COVID-19
pandemic, manufacturing firms face enormous challenges in reconstructing the global …

Abstract In International Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (IEPC) projects the
main contractor carries out the work at distant sites for the project owner with support from …

In construction projects, contractors often engage in opportunistic behavior. This research
aims to examine the effect of asset specificity on contractors' opportunistic behavior (strong …

Implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in supply chains is not a trivial task. In
fact, many firms in recent years have publicly proclaimed that in order to keep their CSR …

As a business mode, cross-border e-commerce responds to the trend of globalization. It is
an effective means for numerous enterprises to open up new businesses, expand new …

Stakeholders expect focal firms to improve their environmental performance. While firms
may be able to accumulate the environmental expertise needed to achieve this goal …

Drawing on information processing theory, this study revisits the interplay between trust and
contracts by comprehensively examining the impact of the interaction of different types of …