International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 35 Issue 3

Buyer-supplier embeddedness and patterns of innovation

Yusoon Kim, Thomas Y. Choi, Paul F. Skilton

The purpose of this paper is to describe different ways in which a buyer and supplier can be embedded in a dyadic relationship and how these differences influence patterns of…

Service embeddedness and its role in a firm’s internationalisation process: An Australian perspective

Robert Jack, Sharif As-Saber, Ron Edwards

Perceived differences in the composition of goods and services forms the basis of a significant degree of analysis of the firm internationalisation process. In particular, product…

Exploring the importance of cultural collectivism on the efficacy of lean practices: Taking an organisational and national perspective

Frank Wiengarten, Cristina Gimenez, Brian Fynes, Kasra Ferdows

The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of cultural collectivism on the efficacy of lean practices. Furthermore, this study assesses whether or not potential cultural…

International manufacturing network: past, present, and future

Yang Cheng, Sami Farooq, John Johansen

– The purpose of this paper is to examine, and present a comprehensive review of, the existing literature on the international manufacturing network (IMN).

Collaborative purchasing of complex technologies in healthcare: Implications for alignment strategies

Chiara Gobbi, Juliana Hsuan

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how buyers and the vendors pursue alignment in collaborative purchasing (CP) of complex medical technologies.