Multinational Enterprises and the Governance of Sustainability Practices in Emerging Market Supply Chains : An Agile Governance Perspective

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Designing Data Spaces

This open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries. To this end, the book is structured in four parts: Part I “Foundations and Contexts” provides a general overview about building, running, and governing data spaces and an introduction to the IDS and GAIA-X projects. Part II “Data Space Technologies” subsequently details various implementation aspects of IDS and GAIA-X, including eg data usage control, the usage of blockchain technologies, or semantic data integration and interoperability. Next, Part III describes various “Use Cases and Data Ecosystems” from various application areas such as agriculture, healthcare, industry, energy, and mobility. Part IV eventually offers an overview of several “Solutions and Applications”, eg including products and experiences from companies like Google, SAP, Huawei, T-Systems, Innopay and many more. Overall, the book provides professionals in industry with an encompassing overview of the technological and economic aspects of data spaces, based on the International Data Spaces and Gaia-X initiatives. It presents implementations and business cases and gives an outlook to future developments. In doing so, it aims at proliferating the vision of a social data market economy based on data spaces which embrace trust and data sovereignty

Dynamics in Logistics

This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research on classical supply chain management, digitalized business processes, production engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and mathematical optimization. To celebrate 25 years of interdisciplinary and collaborative research conducted at the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), in this book hand-picked experts currently or formerly affiliated with the Cluster provide retrospectives, present cutting-edge research, and outline future research directions

Business model innovation: how international retailers rebuild their core business logic in a new host country

Although research into the business model has received increasing attention, few studies have so far been conducted on business model innovation in an international context. The purpose of the study is to identify different patterns of business model innovation which enables international retailers to rebuild their core business logic in new host countries. On the basis of comparing and contrasting the business model changes of 15 international retailers from various home countries to one single host country (China), our study provides an in-depth understanding of business model innovation in the context of international business. By looking at the firms’ capabilities in rebuilding their core logic in the setting of a host country, we reveal six routes of retail business model innovation. Utilizing the lens of organizational learning theory and internationalization, we identify three patterns of resource deployment by international companies in the process of developing business model innovations. Our study, therefore, provides insights and guidance for multinational companies in general, international retailers in particular, as for how to successfully adapt their business model from home country to host country

Dynamics in Logistics

This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research on classical supply chain management, digitalized business processes, production engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and mathematical optimization. To celebrate 25 years of interdisciplinary and collaborative research conducted at the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), in this book hand-picked experts currently or formerly affiliated with the Cluster provide retrospectives, present cutting-edge research, and outline future research directions

The Innovation Revolution in Agriculture

This open access book is an important reframing of the role of innovation in agriculture. Dr. Campos and his distinguished coauthors address the need for agriculture to feed a growing global population with a reduced environmental footprint while adapting to and mitigating the effects of changing climate. The authors expand the customary discussion of innovation in terms of supply driven R&D to focus on the returns to investors and most importantly, the value to end-users. This is brought to life by exploring effective business models and many cases from agricultural systems across the globe. The focus on converting the results of innovation in R&D into adoption by farmers and other end-users is its greatest contribution. Many lessons from the book can be applied to private and public sectors across an array of agricultural systems. This book will be of enormous value to agri-business professionals, NGO leaders, agricultural and development researchers and those funding innovation and agriculture across the private and public sectors. Tony Cavalieri, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Hugo Campos, Ph.D., MBA, has 20+ years of international corporate and development experience. His distinguished coauthors represent a rich collection of successful innovation practice in industry, consultancy, international development and academy, in both developed and developing countries.

Analysis and Management of Bottlenecks in Supply Networks : Towards a Structured Approach to Stabilization of Inbound Material Flow

PhD thesis in Structural Engineering and Material ScienceAny organization whose business model is based on production relies, and is dependent, on providers of raw material which it transforms into products. Customers’ demand for products, and thus the producing firm’s demand for raw material, generally are not static but change with economic cycles, marketing, entries and exits of competitors, and changing consumer behavior, to name but a few factors. A variety of forecast methods support organizations in their effort to be prepared for demand changes, yet uncertainty about the volumes the market will demand cannot be fully eliminated. The design and management of supply networks has therefore increasingly shifted in the focus of attention as they provide levers for organizations to cope with variability. This thesis aims to augment theory and practice in the management of supply networks by providing a different perspective, a new angle, from where to analyze and to steer the buying firm’s inbound material stream. A bottleneck perspective will be developed in the course of the thesis, and it will be complemented by the identification and discussion of distinct bottleneck management activities, each of which comprised by a multitude of individual measures. Some of these measures fulfill very particular roles, and some serve multiple roles at once, so that the context in which to use these measures is important. Moreover, the discussion of supply networks and activities aimed at securing supply provides clarification as to the popular notions of supply chains and Supply Chain Management (SCM). It will be demonstrated how these concepts collide with actual network structures as well as with common practice. A comprehensive review of literature brings together insights from research fields as diverse as manufacturing systems, systems theory, complexity, and network theory. This review provides the backbone for the development of a tentative conceptual model that will guide the processes of data collection and analysis. The insights from the data analysis and how they relate to the existing body of knowledge are used to devise the foundation of a theory of bottleneck management in supply networks