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Publication date: 19 February 2021

Geopolitical disruptions and the manufacturing location decision in multinational company supply chains: a Delphi study on Brexit

Hamid Moradlou, Hendrik Reefke, Heather Skipworth and Samuel Roscoe

This study investigates the impact of geopolitical disruptions on the manufacturing supply chain (SC) location decision of managers in UK multinational firms. The context…

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Purpose

This study investigates the impact of geopolitical disruptions on the manufacturing supply chain (SC) location decision of managers in UK multinational firms. The context of study is the UK manufacturing sector and its response to the UK's decision to leave the European Union (EU), or Brexit.

Design/methodology/approach

The study adopts an abductive, theory elaboration approach and expands on Dunning's eclectic paradigm of international production. A Delphi study over four iterative rounds is conducted to gather and assess insights into manufacturing SC location issues related to Brexit. The panel consisted of 30 experts and managers from a range of key industries, consultancies, governmental organisations, and academia. The Delphi findings are triangulated using a focus group with 38 participants.

Findings

The findings indicate that the majority of companies planned or have relocated production facilities from the UK to the EU, and distribution centres (DCs) from the EU to the UK. This was because of market-seeking advantages (being close to major centres of demand, ease of access to local and international markets) and efficiency-seeking advantages (costs related to expected delays at ports, tariff and non-tariff barriers). Ownership and internalisation advantages, also suggested by the eclectic paradigm, did not play a role in the location decision.

Originality/value

The study elaborates on the OLI framework by showing that policy-related uncertainty is a primary influencing factor in the manufacturing location decision, outweighing the importance of uncertainty as an influencer of governance mode choices. The authors find that during geopolitical disruptions managers make location decisions in tight time-frames with incomplete and imperfect information, in situations of high perceived uncertainty. The study elaborates on the eclectic paradigm by explaining how managerial cognition and bounded rationality influence the manufacturing location decision-making process.

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-07-2020-0465
ISSN: 0144-3577

Keywords

  • Manufacturing location decision
  • Geopolitical disruption
  • Offshoring
  • Reshoring
  • Brexit

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Publication date: 2 May 2020

Managing supply chain uncertainty arising from geopolitical disruptions: evidence from the pharmaceutical industry and brexit

Samuel Roscoe, Heather Skipworth, Emel Aktas and Farooq Habib

This paper examines how firms of different sizes formulate and implement strategies to achieve fit with an external environment disrupted by a geopolitical event. The…

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Purpose

This paper examines how firms of different sizes formulate and implement strategies to achieve fit with an external environment disrupted by a geopolitical event. The context of the study is the pharmaceutical industry and how it managed the supply chain uncertainty created by the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union, or Brexit.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected longitudinally from the pro-Brexit vote on 23 June 2016, until the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January 2020. Twenty-seven interviews were conducted in the pharmaceutical sector, including nineteen interviews with senior managers at eight case companies and eight interviews with experts working for trade associations and standards institutes. The interview findings were triangulated with Brexit policy and strategy documentation.

Findings

When formulating strategy, multi-national enterprises (MNEs) used worst case assumptions, while large firms, and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) gathered knowledge as part of a “wait-and-see” strategy, allowing them to reduce perceptions of heightened supply chain uncertainty. Firms then implemented reactive and/or proactive strategies to mitigate supply chain risks.

Originality/value

The study elaborates on strategic contingency theory by identifying two important conditions for achieving strategic fit: first, companies deploy intangible resources, such as management time, to gather information and reduce perceptions of heightened supply chain uncertainty. Second, companies deploy tangible resources (supply chain redundancies, new supply chain assets) to lessen the negative outcomes of supply chain risks. Managers are provided with an empirical framework for mitigating supply chain uncertainty and risk originating from geopolitical disruptions.

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 40 no. 9
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-10-2019-0668
ISSN: 0144-3577

Keywords

  • Supply chain risk management
  • Supply chain uncertainty
  • Contingency theory
  • Geopolitical risks

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Publication date: 31 March 2020

Determining the antecedents of dynamic supply chain capabilities

Haris Aslam, Constantin Blome, Samuel Roscoe and Tashfeen Mehmood Azhar

The purpose of this paper is to determine the antecedents of dynamic supply chain capabilities (DSCCs). The authors test entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and supply chain…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to determine the antecedents of dynamic supply chain capabilities (DSCCs). The authors test entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and supply chain learning orientation (SCLO) as two antecedents of DSCCs.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper uses structural equation modelling to test a hypothetical model. Data are gathered from a survey of 275 operations managers in Pakistan’s turbulent manufacturing industry.

Findings

The findings suggest that the weaker direct effects of EO, in comparison to the indirect effects, indicate that an SCLO mediates the relationship between EO and DSCCs.

Research limitations/implications

It is widely accepted that firms do not compete with each other, instead, it is end-to-end supply chains that fight for market dominance. Many scholars use the dynamic capabilities view to understand supply chain level competition. However, the dynamic capabilities view is firm-centric in its examination of how companies transform internal resources to compete in the external environment. The theoretical contribution of this paper is a roadmap of how to build dynamic, supply-chain level and capabilities by determining the key antecedents. This paper explains that DSCCs emerge when buyers and suppliers share strategic orientations. Firms with an EO and the ability to learn with supply chain partners are well-positioned to develop DSCCs. This provides a new angle to theory testing by indicating that dynamic capabilities are enabled by an EO and an ability to learn with supply chain partners.

Practical implications

Managers are given the building blocks of DSCCs, starting with fostering an entrepreneurially-oriented mindset in the company and then learning with supply chain partners. Entrepreneurially-oriented managers are encouraged to take risks and co-develop innovative ideas with suppliers during the supply chain learning process.

Originality/value

This study is one of the earliest efforts to determine the strategic orientations that antecede the emergence of DSCCs.

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Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-02-2019-0074
ISSN: 1359-8546

Keywords

  • Entrepreneurial orientation
  • Supply-chain management
  • Structural equation model
  • Supply chain agility
  • Dynamic supply chain capabilities
  • Supply chain learning orientation
  • Market sensing
  • Supply chain adaptability

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Publication date: 3 December 2018

Dynamic supply chain capabilities: How market sensing, supply chain agility and adaptability affect supply chain ambidexterity

Haris Aslam, Constantin Blome, Samuel Roscoe and Tashfeen M. Azhar

This paper positions market sensing, supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability as a coherent cluster of dynamic supply chain capabilities. The purpose of this…

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This paper positions market sensing, supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability as a coherent cluster of dynamic supply chain capabilities. The purpose of this paper is to understand how dynamic supply chain capabilities interrelate and their effect on supply chain ambidexterity.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on a survey of Pakistani manufacturing firms, a theoretically-derived model was tested in a structural equation model.

Findings

The results of the study show that a market-sensing capability is an antecedent of supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability. Furthermore, supply chain agility, directly, and supply chain adaptability, indirectly, affect supply chain ambidexterity. Supply chain agility, therefore, mediates the relationship between supply chain adaptability and supply chain ambidexterity.

Originality/value

The contribution of this study lies in: first, identifying dynamic capability clusters relevant for achieving supply chain ambidexterity; second, evaluating performance implications of dynamic capabilities in the supply chain, specifically supply chain agility and adaptability; and third, proposing a unique measurement of supply chain ambidexterity in the light supply chain theory, and empirically evaluating the relationship between dynamic capabilities and supply chain ambidexterity.

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 38 no. 12
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-09-2017-0555
ISSN: 0144-3577

Keywords

  • Survey
  • Supply chain agility

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Publication date: 1 December 1999

William Roscoe as a book collector

Eric Glasgow

Outlines the variety of interests of William Roscoe, a successful (until 1816) banker in Liverpool, from botany to poetry, and concentrates on his book collecting…

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Outlines the variety of interests of William Roscoe, a successful (until 1816) banker in Liverpool, from botany to poetry, and concentrates on his book collecting. Describes the contents of the library he established at Allerton Hall, Liverpool, and their influence on his own studies and writings. His contributions to the intellectual and civic development of Liverpool prior to its rapid commercial expansion in the nineteenth century are described and the fate of his art and book collections, and the extent of their survival in Liverpool itself, despite the dispersal of most of his library, following his bankruptcy in 1816 are indicated. The nature and extent of his legacy, especially in Liverpool itself, is discussed.

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Library Review, vol. 48 no. 8
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539910300697
ISSN: 0024-2535

Keywords

  • Biography
  • Books

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Publication date: 6 August 2012

Notes from Warren J. Samuels's 1996 Course on the Economic Role of Government

Marianne Johnson and Martin E. Meder

X = multiple interpretations

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X = multiple interpretations

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Documents on Government and the Economy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-4154(2012)000030B007
ISBN: 978-1-78052-827-4

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Publication date: 3 May 2007

Notes from Charlton W. Tebeau's Course, United States Constitutional History, History 329, University of Miami, Spring Semester 1953

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Documents from the History of Economic Thought
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(06)25020-X
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1423-2

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Publication date: 14 September 2020

Guest editorial

Edwin Cheng, Hugo K.S. Lam, Andrew C. Lyons and Andy C.L. Yeung

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 40 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-05-2020-829
ISSN: 0144-3577

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Publication date: 4 March 2019

Legitimacy-seeking strategies in the gambling industry: the case of responsible gambling

Tiffany Cheng Han Leung

The purpose of this paper is to examine how responsible gambling policies are communicated and presented as a legitimation strategy to different stakeholders.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine how responsible gambling policies are communicated and presented as a legitimation strategy to different stakeholders.

Design/methodology/approach

This study is based primarily on 49 semi-structured interviews with internal and external stakeholders of Macao’s gambling industry in 2011. This study draws on Reast et al.’s (2012) legitimacy-seeking strategy framework.

Findings

The findings indicate that these organisations use construing and earning legitimacy strategies to ensure passive support and acquiescence from certain stakeholder groups, and they deploy bargaining and capturing legitimacy strategies to generate active support for this morally contested industry. As a means of attaining long-standing legitimacy in the industry, gambling operators engage symbolically rather than substantively in responsible gambling to minimise the legitimacy gap.

Research limitations/implications

The findings of the study pertain to a unique setting and might not be suitable for generalisation.

Practical implications

In the absence of stringent legal mechanisms and strong external stakeholder pressure, the 12th Five-Year Plan of the People’s Republic of China aims to transform Macao into a “World Centre of Tourism and Leisure”, and gambling companies may soon face much stronger pressures from the Chinese Government and the Macao Government.

Social/implications

Voluntary responsible gambling initiatives are liable to be used only in symbolic fashion, without offering genuine engagement or full commitment to the most vulnerable stakeholder group.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the literature on social and accounting literature by providing an in-depth case study of how organisations in the gambling industry use different communication strategies to shape and respond to controversial issues.

Details

Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, vol. 10 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-04-2018-0121
ISSN: 2040-8021

Keywords

  • Controversial industries
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Social and environmental accounting
  • Responsible gambling
  • Gambling industry
  • Organisational legitimacy

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Publication date: 22 August 2006

Joseph F. Francis, “Law and Economics”

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Documents from and on Economic Thought
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(06)24033-1
ISBN: 978-1-84950-450-8

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