International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 43 Issue 9

Linking entrepreneurial orientation and supply chain resilience to strengthen business performance: an empirical analysis

Sebastian Sturm, Nils-Ole Hohenstein, Evi Hartmann

This study examines the interactions between entrepreneurial orientation, supply chain resilience (SCRES) as well as the financial and commercial dimensions of business…

Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations

Francesco Arcidiacono, Alessandro Ancarani, Carmela Di Mauro, Florian Schupp

Smart Manufacturing (SM) lies at the core of Industry 4.0. Operations management research has investigated the determinants of SM advancement but there is still limited…

Supplier–supplier coopetition and buyer innovation: a perspective of learning and competitive tension within the focal buyer's supplier network

Bin Guo, Xi Li, Tanfei Liu, Dong Wu

Supplier–supplier coopetition is vital to buyer innovation in reality. However, it has not received enough attention in prior research. Integrating the…

Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions

Adam Diamant, Anton Shevchenko, David Johnston, Fayez Quereshy

The authors determine how the scheduling and sequencing of surgeries by surgeons impacts the rate of post-surgical complications and patient length-of-stay in the hospital.

Lean supply chain management: a contextual contingent reconceptualization and Delphi method study

Fernando Naranjo, Larry J. Menor, P. Fraser Johnson

This research proposes and illustrates a conditional view of lean supply chain management (LSCM) based upon the contextual contingent alignment between lean performance objectives…

Impact pathways: managing relational risk in project operations

David J. Bryde, Azar Shahgholian, Roger Joby, Simon Taylor, Ruchi Singh

The purpose of this paper is to assess how we implement new ways of managing relational risk at the operational level of outsourced projects and to provide guidance to project…