Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 29 Issue 6

A preliminary investigation into senior management skills: the context of third-party logistics (3PLs) providers

James Midgley, Ozlem Bak

The third-party logistics (3PL) provider has faced significant change since containerisation with the broadening scope of supply chains and technological developments. With these…

Integrated management system: methodology for maturity assessment in food industries

Ângela Regina Souza Santos, Renata Maciel de Melo, Thárcylla Rebecca Negreiros Clemente, Simone Machado Santos

A model to evaluate the maturity of the integration of three management systems in food industries, under the aspects of environment, quality and food safety is proposed.

Assessing the efficiency of the Covid-19 control measures and public health policy in OECD countries from cultural perspectives

Hokey Min, C. Christopher Lee, Seong-Jong Joo

To identify sources of the success and failure of COVID-19 control measures and develop best-practice public health policy in mitigating the spread of COVID-19, this paper aims to…

Benchmarking the outsourcing factors of third-party logistics services selection: analysing influential strength and building a sustainable decision model

Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan, Shahed Alkhatib, Zaina Ammar, Md. Abdul Moktadir, Anil Kumar

Outsourcings always affect crucial supply chain functions concerning flexibility and cost. During the decision to outsource and consider third-party logistics service provider…

International mobile marketing: a satisfactory concept for companies and users in times of pandemic

Lázaro Florido-Benítez

This study’s purpose is to analyze the international mobile marketing (IMK) in order to stage the importance of this tool in the internationalization of companies. Our…

Information-centric influence strategies for quality assurance in reverse logistics supply chains: external stakeholders' perspective

M.K.C.S. Wijewickrama, Nicholas Chileshe, Raufdeen Rameezdeen, J. Jorge Ochoa

The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, to identify the information-centric strategies of external stakeholders that influence the quality assurance (QA) in the reverse…

Inventory decision-making biases: a review and suggestions for future research

S. Yamini, M.S. Gajanand

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of the biases in inventory decisions, under the umbrella of behavioural operations, considering research findings that used…

Competency framework to integrate lean construction and integrated project delivery on construction megaprojects: towards a future of work global initiatives in multinational engineering organisations

Martin Evans, Peter Farrell, Emad Elbeltagi, Helen Dion

Built environment organisations face global challenges between business units, especially since the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has profoundly disrupted the construction…

Identification of specific metrics for sustainable lean manufacturing in the automobile industries

Naveen Kumar, Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan, M. Thilak, Ángel Acevedo-Duque

This study explains the importance of performance measures and identifies the specific performance measures of sustainable lean manufacturing (SLM) for automobile industries…

Embracing advanced manufacturing technologies for performance improvement: an empirical study

Rajesh Kumar Singh, Amulya Gurtu

This study has analyzed strategic issues in implementing advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) in manufacturing organizations in India and their relative importance.

Supply chain resilience during the COVID-19: empirical evidence from an emerging economy

Maciel M. Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Regina M. Branski

Although the advances in the supply chain resilience (SCR) literature, there is a critical gap concerning this understanding in a high disruption context, such as in the case of…

Engine of entrepreneurial intentions: revisiting personality traits with entrepreneurial education

Abhijeet Biswas, Rohit Kumar Verma

The intent to start an entrepreneurial venture is predisposed by certain personality traits. The study aims to analyze the impact of various identified personality traits and…