Business-to-business traceability has historically played an important role in coordinating value chain activities and helping businesses to manage reputational risk.
Multinational organizations are under increased pressures from stakeholders (particularly customers and consumer associations) to revisit their numerous processes in their value chain activities.
Drawing on the contingency theory, we examine organizational and environmental factors that influence an e-Retailer's IST sourcing strategy of make versus buy in enabling its value chain activities, and we also look at firm-level performance impacts of IST sourcing decisions that involve bundling across value chain activities.
Further examination reveals, however, that at least half of the firms in the sample include value chain activities other than trade in their first steps in internationalisation.
These early examples clue us in to how AR-as-a-sensor will make its way into the mainstream, creating new opportunities for manufacturers, in both product strategy and value chain activities.
The model highlights the central role of firm level technological intensity and product differentiation in determining the location of value chain activities as well as defining organisational boundaries.
In Kenya, Kitui County was selected due to the county being an epicenter of the charcoal value chain activities in Kenya.
Universities/PRIs of knowledge-based economies face similar challenges in measuring the intermediate input and output of their respective RIE value chain activities, as evident in their adoption of common traditional indicators for benchmarking despite their limitations (AUTM 2014).
In more specific details, this research further investigates product-specific value chain activities, i.e., a mobile phone integrator (with small-size LCD display as its component), to gain insights about the value chain characteristics.
The power to capture attractive profits will shift in the value chain to those activities where the immediate customer is not yet satisfied with the functionality of available products.
