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Caterpillar's Spatial Metamorphosis: Heavy Equipment Manufacturing in the 21st Century

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturer, grew rapidly in the 20th century before a crisis of overproduction in the early 1980s threatened its survival. In response, it launched the $2.8 billion “Plant with a Future” (PWAF) program, a sweeping material and ideological overhaul that remade the firm for the post‐Fordist
Utkarsh Kumar, Michael L. Dougherty
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies for Legitimizing Regeneration in Supply Chain Fields

Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In view of escalating environmental degradation, regenerative business has been proposed to restore social–ecological systems. However, as regeneration fundamentally departs from mainstream approaches and lacks commonly accepted standards, it suffers from a liability of newness that hampers its broader legitimation and adoption.
Veronica Devenin, Tobias Hahn, Valentina De Marchi, Maja Tampe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning Through Co‐opetition: How Knowledge Sharing Builds Supply Chain Resilience

Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how knowledge sharing among competing firms (co‐opetition) influences risk management and enhances supply chain resilience. Grounded in organizational learning theory, the study examines how co‐opetition enhances firms' visibility into the emerging challenges of tomorrow's world, enabling proactive risk management that can ...
Jacob C. Jensen, Dustin Cole, LaDonna Thornton, Anthony Roath, Robert Glenn Richey   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Luigi Pasinetti and Adolph Lowe: Bridging Capital Theory and Institutional Analysis

Metroeconomica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the convergence of Luigi Pasinetti's and Adolph Lowe's political economy, linking capital theory, institutions, and normative methodology. Pasinetti's two‐stage approach and Lowe's instrumental method share a common emphasis on the structural requirements and institutional arrangements for attaining and maintaining full ...
Michael J. Murray
wiley   +1 more source

Due Diligence Regulation and Sustainability Governance in Value Chains: Lessons From the South African Wine Sector

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A recent raft of due diligence regulation (DDR) addressing social and environmental conditions in global value chains (GVCs) has spread across the UK and Europe. An emerging literature on DDR highlights the politics of its formation. Yet, we know little about how existing sustainability governance along GVCs interacts with DDR or the wider ...
Matthew Alford, Reena das Nair, Margareet Visser, Stefano Ponte, Shingie Chisoro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

MODELING THE DEMAND FOR DURABLE INPUTS: DISTRIBUTED LAGS AND CAUSALITY [PDF]

Vector-autoregressive-moving-average (VARMA) modeling was used to identify distributed lag relationships among farm tractor derived demand variables and to provide a basis for formally testing the hypothesis that the price of new tractor horsepower is ...
Ali, Mukhtar M., Bradford, Garnett L., Mui, H.W.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A simulation model to predict agricultural tractor-semi-trailer combination traction performance under different operating conditions. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Fouda T, Hegazy R, Alhamshary K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Risk‐based approaches to regulatory governance are ubiquitous. One aspect of such approaches suggests regulators direct their attention towards companies that have already violated regulations. However, such approaches have made little use of available data to explore these companies, especially compared to companies that do not transgress ...
Ben Hunter
wiley   +1 more source

Performance analysis of fuzzy control strategy for tractor semi-active seat suspension. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chen X, Wang Z, Qiu Y, Jiang N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin, Hana Shepherd, Jenn Round, Jake Barnes, Janice Fine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source