17 research outputs found
Research of Strategic Global Development Trends and Competitiveness in the World Pharmaceutical Industry
International Supply Chain Case Study
The chapter aims to explore how some successful global firms organize and manage their supply chain activities at a global level. Three interlink areas of international supply chains including global production, global sourcing, and global distribution within three separate case-studies; Samsung's global production, UK Airbus's global sourcing, and Tesco's global distribution are examined in the chapter. The overall results highlight the importance of a holistic approach to international supply chain management. Findings from Samsung's smart phone production network and Tesco's global distribution suggest that firms are able to be successful when they exploit specific opportunities wherever they are located in the world. Whilst Samsung have been successful with keeping in-house production, Airbus are doing well with outsourcing. The Airbus case highlights the importance of risk management in global supply chains. All three cases demonstrate examples of benefits and challenges posed by knowledge sharing with partners in the supply chain
Implementing ERP Systems Globally: A Case Study
Recently, improved communication technology has seen the growth in a convergence of global corporate activities, and in an effort to improve their global operations, many companies are implementing global information systems. One such system, in particular, is the Enterprise Resource Planning system. In this regard, however, companies are faced with a number of complexities when implementing these systems in a single country. Due to this intricacy, considerable research has been conducted on the critical success factors associated with ERP implementations
Environmental Turbulence and Complexity and the Optimal Degree of Internal Open Innovation for MNCs
Systematic literature review on global strategy: mapping trends and gaps
The global economy changed the way products and services are exchange and
reminded organizations’ managers to find new ways to obtain competitive advantage
and formulate their strategy in the global market. Thus, this chapter’s aim is to
perform a systematic literature review to identify the main theoretical topics of
global strategy in the past 43 years using bibliometric analysis. The results allowed
to identify and cluster five main trends: Cluster 1 – firm performance in the global
market; Cluster 2 – power and market space development; Cluster 3 – government
regulation, government and regulation; Cluster 4 – economic periods; Cluster 5 –
societal changes. Findings also allowed to find potential gaps in global strategy related
with the topics of entrepreneurship, competitive strategy, capitalism, transitions,
climate change, law, portfolio, financial performance, global sourcing, and global
value chain. Conclusions are drawn.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio