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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Global supply chains"”.
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Social sustainability implementation in global supply chains
… implement socially sustainable practices in the supply chain were highlighted by the recent collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh in April 2013, which killed 1,229 workers of factories supplying apparel to Western retailers like Primark and Benetton. The thesis contributes to this emerging …
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100% container scanning : security policy implications for global supply chains
… this plan, citing economic impacts, barriers to global trade and insufficient technology and physical space. This thesis focuses on importer concerns relating to potential shipment delays, financial burdens, sourcing issues and contingency planning concerns in global supply chain operations. …
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Impact of 3D printing on global supply chains by 2020
… estimate the potential impact of 3D Printing on global supply chains. Industrial adoption of 3D Printing has been increasing gradually from prototyping to manufacturing of low volume customized parts. The need for customized implants like tooth crowns, hearing aids, and orthopedic-replacement …
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The impact of international logistics parks on global supply chains
With the globalization of industries since the 1980's, logistics parks have emerged as a solution for the consolidation of operations and logistics services for global companies. In the beginning, logistics parks were limited to enabling companies to centralize their operations using shared …
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SMEs and global supply chains in the French agricultural machinery sector
Over the last 40 years globalisation has had a major impact on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in traditional manufacturing sectors, located in developed countries. In response to increasingly competitive domestic markets, many of these firms are now engaged in supplier and customer …
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The reconfiguration of the global supply chains of critical materials: behaviours and outcomes in the cobalt sector
Why are contemporary raw material supply chains structured as they are? This dissertation explores what shapes the supply chains of ‘critical materials’, metals and minerals which are of high economic importance and are at risk of supply shortage. The research focusses on cobalt, a metal mined …
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New frontiers for Labour Law: Collective Bargaining for Workers in Global Supply Chains and Informal Self-Employed Workers
… Focusing on two categories of worker in the global South — garment workers in global supply chains and street vendors — the thesis explores the shifts required of the institution of collective bargaining to realise collective bargaining rights for these workers. These sectors constitute a …
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PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ACTORS TO FOSTER RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS CONDUCT ALONG GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
Nel contesto dell’attuale economia globalizzata, caratterizzata da complesse catene di fornitura globali, esplorare possibili spazi di intersezione tra il diritto degli appalti pubblici e i diritti umani rappresenta una sfida e al contempo un’opportunità cruciale. Le catene di fornitura globali …
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The Impact of Globalization on Inventory and Financial Performance: A Firm-Level and Industry-Level Analysis
This dissertation investigates how globalization affects inventory and financial performance from both firm and industry perspectives. Drawing upon elements from classic inventory models, transaction costs, geographic economics, and international business and strategy literatures, this dissertation …
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Globalization and standards : the liberalization of trade and the potential for a regulatory race to the top
Globalization is changing the way in which the world is organized. The world trade regime is increasingly the dominant mode of organizing international relations. Within this context of globalization and liberalization of trade, empirical examples of a race to the bottom co-exist with examples of a …
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From haute couture to fast-fashion : evaluating social transparency in global apparel supply chains
… trying to institute transparency within their supply chains to become socially sustainable. However, transparency so far has not been clearly defined, which makes the process of evaluating transparency difficult and often unpractical. The main goal of this thesis is to establish a framework and …
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Impact of demographics on supply chain risk management practices
… demographic factors play a role in the choice of supply chain risk management practices by supply chain professionals? Are there stronger relationships between certain demographic factors and supply chain risk management practices? Most supply chains today cuts across multiple countries, cultures, …
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Varieties of innovation : the creation of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, and the United States
… economies that focus on production. Even as global supply chains have allowed firms to outsource and offshore manufacturing activities, such literatures assume that innovation itself still takes place within firms in advanced economies. This study develops a framework to understand innovation …
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Regulating the Corporation from Within and Without: Corporate Governance and Workers’ Interests
… used to help improve the interests of workers in global supply chains. Chapter one outlines the introduction and provides background information. Chapter two is the literature review. Chapter three examines the expansion of fiduciary duties and changes to corporate governance, including Benefit …
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SME Globalisation and Supply Chain Finance: Factors to Adoption of Technology-based Solutions
The increasing globalisation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has necessitated the development of robust Supply Chain Finance (SCF) solutions to enhance financial resilience and operational efficiency. Despite the growing necessity of technology-based SCF solutions, such as blockchain and …
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Toward Integrating Intelligence Into Everything Around Us
… systems that achieve spatial perception, global positioning, and environmental monitoring with orders of magnitude less power than conventional approaches. These innovations enable intelligence in previously impossible contexts: insect-scale robots that navigate complex environments, …
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Three essays on international trade
… agent. Essay II develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. It considers a world economy with an arbitrary number of countries, one factor of production, a continuum of intermediate goods, and one final good. Production of the final good is sequential and subject to mistakes. In the …
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Computational Fabrication and Assembly for In Situ Manufacturing
… and inflexibility to changing needs, complex global supply chains hinged on economic and political stability, and waste and over-manufacturing of uniform artefacts that fail to meet the technical and personal needs of today’s diverse individuals and use cases. Today, these challenges are …
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Capturing value in outsourced aerospace supply chains
… is increasingly outsourcing and offshoring their supply chains in order to maintain profitability in the face of increasing competition and globalization. This strategy for value creation inevitably increases the inherent risks and complexity in the supply chain. This in turn makes capturing the …
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Climate Crisis in Our Closets: Sustainability Transition of Fast Fashion Using MLP Analysis
… industry's explosive growth, with complex global supply chains that pose serious environmental and social issues. Despite increased awareness and multiple attempts toward sustainability, the industry is still trapped in an unsustainable paradigm. Therefore, this dissertation aims to examine …
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