International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 36 Issue 10

Design-manufacturing integration and manufacturing complexity: A contingency investigation of job rotation and co-location

Antônio Márcio Tavares Thomé, Rui Sousa

The purpose of this paper is to propose that the effectiveness of organizational design-manufacturing integration (ODMI) practices is contingent upon the degree of complexity of…

Leanness assessment: a literature review

Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy, Anand Gurumurthy

Assessing the outcome of lean transformation journey has been of interest to both researchers and practitioners. Various qualitative and quantitative assessment methodologies have…

Why be first if it doesn’t pay? The case of early adopters of C-TPAT supply chain security certification

John Z. Ni, Steve A. Melnyk, William J. Ritchie, Barbara F. Flynn

The purpose of this paper is to focus on adoption of certified management standards, specifically public standards. Such standards play an increasingly important role in today’s…

Performance measurement system in the situation of simultaneous vertical and horizontal integration

Jukka Pellinen, Henri Teittinen, Marko Järvenpää

The purpose of this paper is to extend the knowledge of the use of performance measurement systems (PMS) in situations where the benefits of both vertical and horizontal…

Exploring quality challenges and the validity of excellence models

Henrik Eriksson, Ida Gremyr, Bjarne Bergquist, Rickard Garvare, Anders Fundin, Håkan Wiklund, Michael Wester, Lars Sörqvist

The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore important quality-related challenges facing organizations, and investigate how current excellence models incorporate these…

Behavioural operations in healthcare: a knowledge sharing perspective

Matteo Mura, Emanuele Lettieri, Giovanni Radaelli, Nicola Spiller

The purpose of this paper is to provide arguments and empirical evidence that different knowledge sharing behaviours – i.e. sharing best practices, sharing mistakes, seeking…

The moderating role of information technology capability in the relationship between supply chain collaboration and organizational responsiveness: Evidence from China

Zhao Cai, Qian Huang, Hefu Liu, Liang Liang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a model to test the relationship between supply chain collaboration (SCC) and organizational responsiveness. Three types of information…

Managing supply chain uncertainty with emerging ethical issues

Elliot Simangunsong, Linda C. Hendry, Mark Stevenson

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate effective management strategies for 14 sources of supply chain uncertainty, with a particular emphasis on uncertainties or…

Absorptive capacity versus distributive capability: The asymmetry of knowledge transfer

Kimberly K. Whitehead, Zach G. Zacharia, Edmund L. Prater

The purpose of this paper is to disentangle the role of the source and recipient of knowledge in supply chain collaboration by providing evidence that the distributive…

The effects of pollution prevention on performance

Stephanie Graham, Rodney McAdam

As pressure for companies to improve their environmental performance has intensified in recent years, research attention has shifted away from establishing a link between…

Performance outcomes and success factors of industrial vending solutions

Mauro Falasca, John F. Kros, S. Scott Nadler

Industrial vending solutions are unique in that they represent a very specific form of vendor-managed inventory (VMI). The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance…

Capturing value from big data – a taxonomy of data-driven business models used by start-up firms

Philipp Max Hartmann, Mohamed Zaki, Niels Feldmann, Andy Neely

The purpose of this paper is to derive a taxonomy of business models used by start-up firms that rely on data as a key resource for business, namely data-driven business models…