This paper studies the spillover effect of import competition in downstream industries on upstream capital structure. We find that a large reduction in import tariffs in a customer industry induces suppliers to choose more conservative financial policies. We show that firms lower their leverage more ...
In recent years, many studies link supply chain sustainability practices to firm performance, since more and more firms are implementing sustainable practices in their manufacturing/services supply chains. This study uses a psychometric meta-analysis to synthesize the results from 167 effect sizes, colle...
Stage 3 supply chain structure Stage 3 provides a blueprint for partnerships. 20 DaimlerChrysler Extended Enterprise Are there models in the automotive and other industries suitable for application to the company? Should benchmarking be performed in these industries? 21 Supply chain systems ove...
There is a common internal structure within the source, make and deliver process elements, and the model focuses on three possible business environments – make-to-stock, make-to-order, and engineer-to-order. Any supply chain is characterized by performance attributes, without which it is highly...
They found that the supply chain structure changes according to the guidance of government subsidies. Although increasing subsidies brings higher benefits to consumers and enterprises, it may harm the environment. On the other hand, the impacts of choosing different objects to subsidize are also a ...
This supply chain structure has been widely adopted in related research [23,28]. It is assumed that this supply chain faces a first order autoregressive demand, AR(1), and employs the generalized order-up-to (OUT) policy with the exponential smoothing (ES) forecasting method. The supply ...
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This paper deals with data sharing among firms along a supply chain for the calculation of Scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 emissions are indirect emissions produced along a firm’s supply chain. They represent the majority of most firms’ carbon footprint. Cu
Take the example of one major US consumer-goods company. Decades of growth through acquisition had resulted in a highly decentralized supply-chain structure, with more than 800 planners in around 50 locations and a wide variety of legacy planning systems. That complexity made it almost impossible ...
To retrieve information from the selected papers and effectively approach research questions, publications are categorized based on four structural dimensions, among them the first one is related to the supply chain structure and the three other dimensions represent the algorithmic specifications. D1—Sup...