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Complexity, Specialization, and Growth

Published by Asian Development Bank, March 2013 This paper analyzes the role of complexity in production on the level of output and on its rate of growth. We develop an endogenous growth model with human capital accumulation, where increased complexity could exert either a positive or a negative effect on the level of output but [...]

A Survey of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Indian Manufacturing Firms

by Subrata Mitra and Partha Priya Datta IIMC Working Paper no.723, February 2013 Research on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has attracted increased attention in recent years. Although SSCM has been studied for developed and developing countries, there has been little information about the adoption of SSCM practices in India. This paper presents one of [...]

Impact of Production Linkages on Industrial Upgrading in ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China,and India: Organizational Evidence of a GlobalSupply Chain

by Tomohiro Machikita and Yasushi Ueki ADBI WP no.399, November 2012 This paper presents a simple model of industrial upgrading as a result of backward and forward information linkages between upstream and downstream relations. It also serves as an empirical investigation of the impact of mutual knowledge exchange on the knowledge production function using data [...]

Food Inflation and Agricultural Supply Chain Management

By Harun R Khan (Keynote address delivered by Shri Harun R. Khan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, at the 16th Conference of Globoil India held in Mumbai on September 22, 2012) Before discussing the role of agribusiness in growth and inflation, it would be apposite to define and understand the concept of agribusiness. Way [...]

A new perspective in supply chain coordination

by Abhishek Chakraborty and Ashis K. Chatterjee Discount models have been used extensively in the past to achieve  coordination between a buyer and a vendor in the context of supply chain management. Such models are based on the vendor offering a discount to the buyer so as to entice him to order in higher batch [...]

Who Captures Value in Global Supply Chains? The Case of Nokia’s N95 Smartphone

Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Pekka Ylä-Anttila (2011) JOURNAL OF INDUSTRY, COMPETITION AND TRADE Available statistics biases the true picture of the current stage of globalization, which is characterized by widespread outsourcing and offshoring. Our concern is that these flaws in available measures may lead to misguided policies in both the developed and developing [...]

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