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In the last few years, companies have paid growing attention to the management of their supply chain at a global level. The need for better suppliers, international competition and research of specific competences have forced companies to improve their ability to cope with suppliers and customers located in different countries around the world. This paper aims to provide an overview of how manufacturing companies use global supply chains and how their behaviour changes over time. Longitudinal data from a sample of companies from the last two editions of the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS) are used. A contingent analysis of manufacturing localization and globalization is also considered in order to identify factors influencing supply chain globalization strategies.
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Five regions have been investigated in this work, namely South America, North America, West Europe, East Europe & Middle East. East Europe and Middle East have been considered together because the countries in the database coming from the Middle East area are Turkey and Israel, which can be considered, from a trade perspective, closer to Europe rather than to other Middle Eastern countries. The existence of a Customs Union agreement since 1995 between Europe and Turkey and the fact that Israel is one of the EU's most established trading partners in the Euromed area ranking as the EU's 25th major trade partner reinforce this assumption.
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Table A.1 a,b,c Distribution of the IMSS III sample in terms of country, industry, size. (DOC 52 KB)
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Table A.5 Distribution of the longitudinal IMSS III and IV sample in terms of country (a), industry (b), size (c). (DOC 43.5 KB)
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Table A.6 Comparison between the complete IMSS III and IV samples and the strictly longitudinal sub-sample. (DOC 31.5 KB)
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Cagliano, R., Caniato, F., Golini, R. et al. Supply chain configurations in a global environment: A longitudinal perspective. Oper Manag Res 1, 86–94 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12063-008-0012-0
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