Enhancing Surveillance - Interconnectedness and Clusters - Background Paper

This paper provides additional detail for the framework discussed in “Enhancing Surveillance – Interconnectedness and Clusters” through theoretical and empirical analysis of linkages, including case studies of Saudi Arabia, the Asian supply chain, financial interconnectedness and cross-border policy dependence in banking, and the Sweden-Baltic connections. It also provides a detailed primer on network analysis.

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Enhancing Surveillance - Interconnectedness and Clusters

Policy Papers ◽

10.5089/9781498340830.007 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 (15) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Policy Space ◽

The Core ◽

Cross Border ◽

Economic Context ◽

Border Trade ◽

Financial Interconnectedness

This paper and the companion background paperpresent a simple conceptual framework to better understand cross-border trade and financial interconnectedness. Countries are grouped together into “clusters” on the basis of having relatively tight trade and financial connections (e.g., Asian supply chain). Clusters are connected to one another through “gatekeepers” (e.g., Austria is a gatekeeper to the Central and Eastern Europe, and Sweden to the Baltics), and countries that are central to the whole network are in the “core” (the systemic-5). By mapping this architecture of cross-border trade and financial interconnectedness, the papers provide—at a glance—an easy way to comprehend the direct and indirect linkages of countries. The papers suggest that gatekeepers in particular can play a role in dampening or amplifying and propagating shocks, and this role depends on the economic context and policy space.

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The Impact of Top Management’s Support on the Collaboration of Green Supply Chain Participants and Environmental Performance

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12219090 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (21) ◽

pp. 9090

Author(s):

Jungeun Lee ◽

Hye-Young Joo

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Empirical Analysis ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Green Supply Chain ◽

Top Management ◽

Direct Impact ◽

Theoretical Mechanism ◽

The Impact ◽

The Empirical Analysis

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the support of top management significantly improves the level of environmental collaboration with participating companies upstream and downstream of the green supply chain and the impact on environmental performance. The results of the empirical analysis of 301 companies that are establishing a green supply chain are as follows. First, top management’s support positively affects the level of collaboration with suppliers and customers in the green supply chain. Secondly, support from top management has a direct impact on the company’s environmental performance. Thirdly, the environmental collaboration of participating companies partially plays a mediation role between the support of top management and the environmental performance. This study has significance in that it analyzes the theoretical mechanism of top management’s support for environmental collaboration with participating companies, leading to environmental performance, and draws implications.

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