Given its potential to reduce lead times and total costs of operations, increase delivery speed, responsiveness and flexibility, and ultimately customer satisfaction, supply chain logistics integration can help to improve the competitiveness of the Italian textile and clothing (T/C) firms. However, few research works on supply chain management in general, and few studies on logistics integratio…
Innovation has become the most important driver of firm competitiveness in advanced economies. In today's competitive environment, firms need to complement technological innovation with non-technological innovation concerning services, people and organization in order to survive and prosper. It is widely acknowledged that innovations emerge in social interactions in which diverse actors share c…