Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 108 Issue 3

Pursuing excellence in firm core knowledge through intelligent group decision support system

Chinho Lin, Andrea CP Liu, Ming‐Lung Hsu, Ju‐Chuan Wu

The paper's objective is to present a group decision support system (GDSS) for facilitating the process of core knowledge selection.

Adoption of social responsibility through the expansion of existing management systems

Pavel Castka, Michaela A. Balzarova

The paper's aims are: to scrutinize International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26000 international guidance standard for social responsibility; to discuss the role of…

A relationship approach to construction supply chains

Peter R. Davis

The purpose of this paper is to establish the influence that relationship variables have on construction supply chains. The objective is to show where thoughtful use of…

Effects of internal and relational capabilities on outsourcing: an integrated model

Tomás F. Espino‐Rodríguez, Manuel Rodríguez‐Díaz

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of relational capability compared to that of internal capability on outsourcing, and the influence of relational capability as a…

An examination of the nature of trust in logistics outsourcing relationship: Empirical evidence from China

Yu Tian, Fujun Lai, Francis Daniel

Using China's burgeoning logistics industry as a backdrop, the present study focused on how to build trust between logistics users and third‐party logistics (3PL) providers, and…

A dynamic manpower forecasting model for the information security industry

Sang‐Hyun Park, Sang M. Lee, Seong No Yoon, Seung‐Jun Yeon

The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated model for manpower forecasting for the information security (IS) industry, one of the fastest growing IT‐related industries…

The effect of knowledge on system integration project performance

Han‐Kuk Hong, Jae‐Sik Kim, Taehun Kim, Byung‐Hak Leem

The paper aims to clarify the relationships between various components of knowledge possessed by the members of system integration (SI) project team and the project performance of…

A qualitative re‐construction of project measurement criteria

Udechukwu Ojiako, Eric Johansen, David Greenwood

Failure is encountered regularly within project‐based industries and there has been research for decades into this phenomenon. Much of it has considered the failure of projects in…