Global Value Chains, Flexibility and Sustainability

Part 1: Global Value Chains.- Chapter 1. Valuation of Flexibility Initiatives along the Value Chain (Sushil).- Chapter 2. Exploiting Locational Resources in a World of Global Value Chains: Strategic Considerations for Clustered Firms and Cluster Managers (Stephan Rohde).- Chapter 3. MSME Competitiveness for the Global Value Chain - A TRIZ Based Approach (Shishir Shrotriya).- Chapter 4. Do Mergers Destroy Value in India? (Neelam Rani).- Chapter 5. Law and the Operation of Global Value Chains: Challenges at the Intersection of Systematisation and Flexibility (Kevin Sobel-Read).- Chapter 6. Technology Transfer and Innovation in Global International Joint Ventures - Emerging Markets' Perspective (Nakul Parameswar).- Chapter 7. Modeling Subsidiary Innovation Factors for Semiconductor Design Industry in India (Dixit Manjunatha Betaraya).- Part 2: Strategy and Flexibility.- Chapter 8. Nested Plasticity Delivers Adaptability and Resilience to Organization (FEKETE István).- Chapter 9. FlexibleBenchmarking Approach of Talent Management: A Case Study of MIDHANI (DK Likhi).- Chapter 10. Strategy Alignment of Critical Continuity Forces w.r.t. Technology Strategy and Business Strategy and Their Hierarchical Relationship using TISM (Prakash Kumar Kedia).- Chapter 11. Manufacturing Flexibility under Uncertain Demand by a Real Options Approach (Katsunori Kume).- Chapter 12. Resistance to Integrate Information Systems in Health Care Service: A study on Developing Country (Umme Nusrat Jusy).- Chapter 13. Towards an Effective Agricultural e-Trading System in India (P.K. Suri).- Chapter 14. Impact of Behavioral Flexibility on Flexible HR System and Organizational Role Stress (Priyanka Jaiswal).- Part 3: Sustainability.- Chapter 15. Organisational Sustainability - Why the Need for Green HRM? (Christina Kirsch).- Chapter 16. Sustainability in Conformity Assessment: Flexibility of Technical Harmonisation (Raimonda Liepi a).- Chapter 17. Evaluation of Market Surveillance Implementation

Julia Connell is an adjunct professor at Curtin University, visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business and research development advisor at Hasanuddin University, Indonesia. Prior to joining Curtin University, she was the Dean of Graduate Studies for the Australian Catholic University. Before that, she served as the Association Dean Postgraduate/ Director of the Graduate School of Business, University of Technology, Sydney. She has also held a number of other roles such as associate dean international, and director of research at other universities, and was a visiting/invited professor at various universities in the UK, France and Dubai. Professor Connell has published over 80 refereed journal articles and co-edited 5 books, many on employment-related issues, change and people development. Research concerning industry clusters, economic development and knowledge sharing led to her involvement in this conference. Professsor Connell has also consulted for a number of organizations such as the Australian Workplace and Productivity Agency, the NSW Police, local government Energy Australia and QBE. Renu Agarwal is an associate professor, Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Management Discipline Group within the UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia. As Director of Supply Chain Management programs, she provides leadership in service value networks, supply chain management, service innovation and dynamic capability building, management practices, and innovation and productivity. She has been instrumental in securing funding and managing both federal and state government grants on management practices for Australia and New Zealand in collaboration with LSE, McKinsey and Stanford. More recently, Dr. Agarwal has been instrumental in the development of the Australian Management Capability Survey in collaboration with Stanford University and funded by DIIS, and launched by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to 15000 Australian businesses to assess the