We are grateful to colleagues in both our individual institutions and in the Spreading the Gains from Globalisation Network (particularly those participating in the Bellagio Workshop in September 2000) for discussions around many of the issues covered in this Handbook and also to Lest anyone feel overwhelmed by the depth of detail in this Handbook, especially with respect to the sections on met...

We consider a new type of value chain that includes both production and service capabilities for existing product lines and that incorporates new product and service development. In this paper we model this value chain using system dynamics. The essential variables and causal relationships, which are expressed as linear differential equations among these variables, are also presented. We discus...

In recent years, due to the rapid evolution of mobile communication technologies, e-commerce has been combined with the mobile communication equipment, and a new paradigm of business – mobile commerce has appeared in business field. Nowadays, the development of 3G-related technologies further pushed the popularity of m-commerce. This paper attempts to categorize the participants in the 3G-based...

Value Chain refers to the full range of activities which are required to bring a product or service from conception, through the different phases of production, delivery to final consumers” (Kaplinsky and Morris, 2001). The concept of Value Chain when applied to fisheries and aquaculture simply refers to all the activities and services —from input supply to production (capture fisheries and aqu...

This paper presents the findings of a study of the relationship between organizational culture and innovation. The particular contribution of this study is mainly its focus on the Innovation Value Chain (thus how organizations generate new ideas, convert them to products or services, and subsequently spread these) and how this might be related to organizational culture. The theoretical basis wa...

A. OPTIMAL DIVISION OF SURPLUS: SUFFICIENT CONDITION IN THIS SECTION, we show that the function β∗(j) in equation (15) of the main text, characterizing the optimal division of surplus at stage j, indeed satisfies a sufficient condition for the associated profit-maximization problem of the firm. Our approach builds on recasting this as a dynamic programming problem. Remember that in the main tex...

Die Vernetzung von Unternehmen mit Kunden und Lieferanten (überbetriebliche Integration) ist eines der wichtigsten Elemente in betrieblichen Wettbewerbsstrategien. Eine in vielen Branchen stark zurückgegangene Fertigungstiefe1 geht gleichzeitig mit erhöhten Transaktionskosten und Anforderungen an Mechanismen zur Koordination der überbetrieblich verteilten Wertschöpfung einher. Diese primär info...

Supply Chain Formation is the process of determining the participants in a supply chain, who will exchange what with whom, and the terms of the exchanges. Decentralized supply chain formation appears as a highly intricate task because agents only possess local information, have limited knowledge about the capabilities of other agents, and prefer to preserve privacy. State-of-the-art decentraliz...

Companies model their business processes either for documentation, analysis, re-engineering or automation purposes; usually using normalized business process modeling languages such as EPC or BPMN. Although these models explain how the processes should be performed and by whom, they abstract away their business rationale ( i.e. what is offered and why). Business modeling aims to answer the latt...