Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 22 Issue 4

Benchmarking supply chains by analyzing technology transfer critical barriers using AHP approach

Sanjay Kumar, Sunil Luthra, Abid Haleem

Technology transfer becoming an important area especially in developing and less developed countries. The purpose of this paper is to address issue of supply chains’ benchmarking…

Analyzing drivers and barriers of coordination in humanitarian supply chain management under fuzzy environment

Gaurav Kabra, A Ramesh

The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers to coordination in humanitarian supply chain management (HSCM), proposes solutions and prioritizes them to overcome the…

Benchmarking the efficiencies of Indonesia’s municipal water utilities using Stackelberg data envelopment analysis

Andreas Wibowo, Hans Wilhelm Alfen

The purpose of this paper is to present a yardstick efficiency comparison of 269 Indonesian municipal water utilities (MWUs) and measures the impact of exogenous environmental…

Impact of pricing and outsourcing models on Indian information technology service outsourcing

Daisy Mathur Jain, Reema Khurana

The information technology (IT) industry has grown owing to the increase in IT outsourcing prompted by the need for cost reductions in organizations. The IT industry contracts are…

Assessment of performance using MPSS based DEA

Subhadip Sarkar

Identification of the best school among other competitors is done using a new technique called most productive scale size based data envelopment analysis (DEA). The paper aims to…

A benchmark-based method for sustainable product design

Arash Hosseinpour, Qingjin Peng, Peihua Gu

– The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective approach to decide design details using benchmarking to capture the existing practice in sustainable design.

Modelling the measures of supply chain performance in the Indian automotive industry

Rajesh Katiyar, Mukesh Kumar Barua, Purushottam L. Meena

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interactions among the key factors of supply chain (SC) in the Indian automotive industry. These key factors are helpful to measure…

An empirical comparison of pricing models in information technology service outsourcing in Indian context

Daisy Mathur Jain, Reema Khurana

The information technology (IT) outsourcing has been inexorably growing in spite of its downsides. The main reasons are financial gains and cost reductions, as well as it allows…

Developing a novel data envelopment analysis model to determine prospective benchmarks of green supply chain in the presence of dual-role factor

Amir Shabani, Reza Farzipoor Saen

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and program evaluation and review technique/critical path method (PERT/CPM) for…