Outsourcing

This paper assesses the role shipping and logistics foreign direct investment (FDI) plays in developing country export performance, exemplified by the case of the large multinational corporation (MNC) Maersk’s investments in Vietnam. The paper …

With the development of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC), the recovery rate of construction waste is improved, and the pollution problem is alleviated. In particular, RAC beams strengthened with prestressed carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) …

The Smart Grid (SG) heavily depends on the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) technology, which has shown its vulnerability to intrusions. To effectively monitor and raise alarms in response to anomalous activities, the Intrusion Detection …

With the rapid development of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and the increasing concern for personal health, sharing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data is widely recognized as a crucial method for enhancing the quality of care and …

Travel and Tourism industry plays a key role in economic growth and job creation across the world. The travel sector offers employment opportunities particularly to women, young people and migrant workers, who represent a large share of the …

Supply chain risk and resilience have been conceived, in the main, in terms of identifying types and sources of risk, the likelihood and impact of them being realised into losses, and the supply chain’s ability to plan for, mitigate and respond in …

As discussed in Chaps 2 , 3 and 4 , traditional supply chain management thinking has focused on firms’ connections to other firms upstream from them—their suppliers and their suppliers’ suppliers etc.—and downstream—their distributors and …

Supply chain management as a field of research and practice has grown and developed substantially from its origins as a for-profit, manufacturing-oriented, firm-based endeavour. As an academic field SCM now includes research in profit and …