Jingfeng Yuan, Alex Yajun Zeng, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Qiming Li
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been applied widely in the global construction market. During the life cycle of PPP projects, their performance could be affected by a number of factors and their interactions, which might cause the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the projects. Previous re...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Ilma Nur Chowdhury, Robert D. Klassen
Abstract For sustainability, research in operations and supply chain management historically emphasized the development of environmental rather than social capabilities. However, factory disasters in Bangladesh, an emerging market and the second largest clothing exporter in the world, revealed enorm...
Gary Gereffi, Stacey Frederick
This paper examines the impact of two crises on the global apparel value chain: the World Trade Organization phase-out of the quota system for textiles and apparel in 2005, which provided access for many poor and small export-oriented economies to the markets of industrialized countries, and the cur...
Jean‐François Hennart
The distinguishing characteristic of international new ventures/born globals (INVs/BGs) is that they have foreign sales from the outset, or very quickly afterward. I argue that this is due to their business model. INVs/BGs sell to spatially dispersed customers distinctive niche products that incur l...
Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Priyabrata Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Moktadir, Kwok Hung Lau
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of global supply chains arising from raw material scarcity, production and transportation disruption, and social distancing. Firms need to carefully anticipate the difficulties during recovery and formulate appropriate strategies to ensure the surviva...
Ataur Rahman Belal, Stuart Cooper
Shafiul Azam Ahmed, Mansoor Ali
Gary Haq
This Earthscan reader is aimed at students, planners, business people and policy makers interested in researching or attempting to address the issues associated with world transport policy and practice. The contributions include: a foreword by E Penalosa outlining the transport crisis facing cities ...
Mark Anner
Workers’ rights violations have been pervasive in many global supply chains. In the apparel sector, production workers often face precarious working conditions, including persistently low pay, excessive and often forced overtime, unsafe buildings, and repression of their right to form unions and bar...
Md. Abdul Moktadir, Anil Kumar, Syed Mithun Ali, Sanjoy Kumar Paul et al.
Abstract Eco‐efficiency and resource optimization for business strategy and the environment can be achieved by the circular economy (CE) practices in supply chains (SCs). The leather industry is a significant industrial contributor to the economic growth of some countries, but at the same time, it l...
Diana Mana-Ay, Akash Kashyap, Jawad Bin Forhad, Talat Darakhshan
Among the current concepts suggested for managers to deal with turbulence and multidimensionality in the business climate, organizational ambidexterity is listed. It seems to be quite enticing but difficult to incorporate the idea of incorporating both evolutionary and innovative organizational chan...
Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke
Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Industrial Democracy are two paradigmatic approaches to transnational labour governance. They differ considerably with regard to the role accorded to the representation of labour. CSR tends to view workers as passive recipients of corporate‐led init...
Md. Tarek Chowdhury, Aditi Sarkar, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Md. Abdul Moktadir
This research investigates the impacts of the novel coronavirus disease, also referred to as COVID-19 pandemic, on the food and beverage industry. It examines both short-term and medium-to-long-term impacts of the pandemic and outlines strategies to reduce the potential consequences of those impacts...
Sudipta Bose, Habib Zaman Khan, Afzalur Rashid, Shajul Islam
Shahriar Tanvir Alam, Sayem Ahmed, Syed Mithun Ali, Sudipa Sarker et al.
The COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the diverse challenges that supply chains face to significant disruptions. Vaccine supply chains are no exception. Therefore, it is elemental that challenges to the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain (VSC) are identified and prioritized to pave the way out of this p...