International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 29 Issue 9

Subject:

Table of contents - Special Issue: Managing Operations in an Expanding Europe

Guest Editors: Nuran Acur, Chris Voss

The impact of international designers on firm innovation capability and consumer interest

Claudio Dell'era, Roberto Verganti

The increasing importance that customers give to the aesthetic, symbolic and emotional value of products leads companies to approach the product design as a means to create a…

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Nature of functional involvement in make or buy decision processes

Anna Moses, Pär Åhlström

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of functional involvement in the cross‐functional make or buy decision process.

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Evolutionary patterns in e‐business strategy

Federico Caniato, Raffaella Cagliano, Matteo Kalchschmidt, Ruggero Golini, Gianluca Spina

In 2003 the authors investigated the level of adoption of e‐business by manufacturing firms in Europe. Four company strategies were identified based on different extents of…

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Supply chain flexibility: an inter‐firm empirical study

Mark Stevenson, Martin Spring

The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical study of supply chain flexibility, asking: what specific inter‐firm practices are used to achieve increased flexibility in…

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Cover of International Journal of Operations & Production Management

ISSN:

0144-3577

Online date, start – end:

1980

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr Tobias Schoenherr
  • Prof. Constantin Blome
  • Robert D. Klassen