Louis Brennan is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Professor within the School of Business at Trinity College. His areas of interest encompass International Business, International Manufacturing, Operations and Global Strategy, and Global Supply Chains. He has published extensively in these areas. Professor Brennan has lived and worked in the United States and in a number of countries in Asia and Europe.Alessandra Vecchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Bologna in Italy, where she holds a Marie Curie Fellowship. Additionally she holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion. Besides teaching several subjects, mostly in the field of International Business and Operations Management at postgraduate level, she supervises MA and PhD students in a wide array of Fashion Management-related subjects. She has a significant track of high-profile publications and her research interests tend to be of a multidisciplinary nature and rather eclectic.

• Trends in manufacturing strategies: a longitudinal investigation of the international manufacturing strategy survey.- The taxonomy of international manufacturing strategies.- International manufacturing strategy: the impact of misalignment between national culture and organizational structure.- Catch-up strategies of emerging market firms: lessons learned from India and China.- Best strategic decisions in management of complex operations.- ICT and international manufacturing strategy.- Do improvement programs complement each other?.- Practices and performance in constraints management production planning and control systems.- Exploring critical success factors for implementing green lean six sigma.- S&OP related key performance measures with integration of sustainability and decoupling points.

Louis Brennan is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Professor within the School of Business at Trinity College. His areas of interest encompass International Business, International Manufacturing, Operations and Global Strategy, and Global Supply Chains. He has published extensively in these areas. Professor Brennan has lived and worked in the United States and in a number of countries in Asia and Europe.Alessandra Vecchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Bologna in Italy, where she holds a Marie Curie Fellowship. Additionally she holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion. Besides teaching several subjects, mostly in the field of International Business and Operations Management at postgraduate level, she supervises MA and PhD students in a wide array of Fashion Management-related subjects. She has a significant track of high-profile publications and her research interests tend to be of a multidisciplinary nature and rather eclectic.

• Trends in manufacturing strategies: a longitudinal investigation of the international manufacturing strategy survey.- The taxonomy of international manufacturing strategies.- International manufacturing strategy: the impact of misalignment between national culture and organizational structure.- Catch-up strategies of emerging market firms: lessons learned from India and China.- Best strategic decisions in management of complex operations.- ICT and international manufacturing strategy.- Do improvement programs complement each other?.- Practices and performance in constraints management production planning and control systems.- Exploring critical success factors for implementing green lean six sigma.- S&OP related key performance measures with integration of sustainability and decoupling points.

Louis Brennan is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Professor within the School of Business at Trinity College. His areas of interest encompass International Business, International Manufacturing, Operations and Global Strategy, and Global Supply Chains. He has published extensively in these areas. Professor Brennan has lived and worked in the United States and in a number of countries in Asia and Europe.Alessandra Vecchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Bologna in Italy, where she holds a Marie Curie Fellowship. Additionally she holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion. Besides teaching several subjects, mostly in the field of International Business and Operations Management at postgraduate level, she supervises MA and PhD students in a wide array of Fashion Management-related subjects. She has a significant track of high-profile publications and her research interests tend to be of a multidisciplinary nature and rather eclectic.

• Trends in manufacturing strategies: a longitudinal investigation of the international manufacturing strategy survey.- The taxonomy of international manufacturing strategies.- International manufacturing strategy: the impact of misalignment between national culture and organizational structure.- Catch-up strategies of emerging market firms: lessons learned from India and China.- Best strategic decisions in management of complex operations.- ICT and international manufacturing strategy.- Do improvement programs complement each other?.- Practices and performance in constraints management production planning and control systems.- Exploring critical success factors for implementing green lean six sigma.- S&OP related key performance measures with integration of sustainability and decoupling points.