Managing Global Networks: an empirical study of Ferdows factory role
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In the current global economy, with an increased international presence of all type of organisations, the design and management of global operations networks (GON) play a vital role in organisational competitiveness. In order to deal with this complex production networks, it is necessary to provide business managers a useful guideline to face the internationalization process in an effective way. The aim of this paper is to discuss the development and evaluation of a construct for assessing the strategic plant role and developing of an improvement roadmap in GONs. This research makes a contribution to current knowledge on global operations by extending the model proposed by Ferdows (1997a) and operationalising it to enable its application for the design and optimisation of global operations networks.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013