Emerging economy sourcing: Implications of supplier social practices for firm performance

An investigation of the cross-border supplier development process: Problems and implications in an emerging economy

This paper is concerned with supplier development in an emerging-market. The context of the study is the interaction between Pakistani suppliers and Japanese automotive manufacturers in equity joint ventures operating in Pakistan. Using a novel approach, drawing data from buyers ‘and’ suppliers, the paper presents a three-stage (evaluation, exploration and interactive) teleological process theo...

Uncertainties , resources , and supplier selection in an emerging economy

Focusing on supplier selection, this article addresses two questions: (1) What are the antecedents that lead to the adoption of various types of selection strategies? (2) What impact do these strategies have on supplier performance? We build a research model showing how both the uncertainty-based and resource-based views drive market-focused and relationship-focused supply selection strategies....

Sourcing for Supplier Effort and Competition

As suppliers provide more value in today’s supply chains, eliciting supplier cost-reduction efforts and inducing supplier competition are two important levers for a buyer to reduce sourcing costs. In this paper, we study a buyer’s sourcing strategy considering supplier effort and competition. The buyer has two instruments in her strategy: the composition of the supply base and the contracting m...

Firm Performance and Selection in an Emerging Economy: Micro Evidence from Slovenia

IT Investments, Alignment and Firm Performance: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

This study presents and tests a model in which the effect of IT investments on firm revenues is associated with the dimensions of IT-business alignment in an emerging market context. We disaggregate firms’ IT business alignment into three dimensions: (1) IT investment-business strategy alignment, (2) IT delivery-business priority alignment, and (3) IT change-business change alignment. Using a s...