Does the Institutional Context Shape International Operations Strategy? Country-Level Analysis

Authors

  • Vitor Fabian Brock Unisinos
  • Iuri Gavronski UNISINOS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12660/joscmv6n1p106-121

Keywords:

Operations Strategy, Green Supply Management, Sustainable Operations, Global Operations, Institutional Context.

Abstract

Recent literature has proposed that institutions play a pivotal role in corporate and
business strategies. We argue that this role holds for manufacturing strategy as well. Despite extensive
literature regarding international operations management (OM), few studies verify how important
variables in OM vary across different institutional contexts. This scarcity of comparative crosscountry
research reveals an important gap both for research and practice. In this paper we address
this gap by providing a data analysis of a recent survey collected in Canada and Brazil. We replicate
and extend previous research by comparing important variables of manufacturing strategy in these
two institutional contexts such as knowledge exchange, green process management, environmental
supplier management and the traditional manufacturing performance dimensions.

DOI: 10.12660/joscmv6n1p106-121

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.12660/joscmv6n1p106-121

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Published

2013-06-25

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Section

04.International Operations Management