Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 30 Issue 10

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Adoption of modern technologies for implementing industry 4.0: an integrated MCDM approach

Mohd Javaid, Shahbaz Khan, Abid Haleem, Shanay Rab

Modern technologies are seen as an essential component of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0) and their adoption is vital to transform the existing manufacturing…

Bridging the research-practice gap in supply chain risks induced by the COVID-19

Qiang Wang, Min Zhang, Rongrong Li

This study aims to explore the gap between research and practice on supply chain risks due to COVID-19 by exploring the changes in global emphasis on supply chain risk research.

Operational performance model for banks: a dynamic data envelopment approach

Preeti Bangarwa, Supriyo Roy

Operational performance is critical for the banking sector for both managers and other stakeholders as it strongly affects the overall performance of the banking system…

A configuration taxonomy based on business process orientation: evidence from organizations in Indonesia

Mahendrawathi ER, Ika Nurkasanah, Annisa Rizki Pratama

This study aims to develop a taxonomy of organizations according to business process orientation (BPO) maturity and investigate the difference between clusters in terms of…

Efficiency of the use of information and communication technologies as a determinant of the digital business transformation process

Ana Krstić, Dragana Rejman-Petrović, Ivana Nedeljković, Predrag Mimović

The purpose of this paper is an analysis of the process of digital transformation of enterprises, by measuring the efficiency of the use of information and communication…

Green human capital readiness and business performance: do green market orientation and green supply chain management matter?

Bambang Tjahjadi, Ida Bagus Gde Adhista Agastya, Noorlailie Soewarno, Api Adyantari

This study aims to examine the effect of green human capital readiness on business performance in the green economy era. This study also focuses on investigating whether the…

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Strategies to streamline supplier relationship management during crises: lessons learned from COVID-19 and future pathways

Atif Saleem Butt, Mohammad Alghababsheh, Tahseen Anwer Arshi, Syed Hamad Hassan Shah

This paper explores the strategies adopted by purchasing firms to streamline relationships with suppliers amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

A farmer-centric agricultural decision support system for market dynamics in a volatile agricultural supply chain

Prateek Kumar Tripathi, Chandra Kant Singh, Rakesh Singh, Arun Kumar Deshmukh

In a volatile agricultural postharvest market, producers require more personalized information about market dynamics for informed decisions on the marketed surplus. However, this…

Improving automated pallet handling procedures at a Saudi milk factory through overall equipment effectiveness

Reham Tarek Alnounou, Rawan Ahmed Asiri, Sara Ayman Alhindi, Layan Marwan Shams, Sadia Samar Ali, Eren Özceylan

Saudi Arabia's 2030 vision targets an increase of 34% in non-oil revenue participation in the GDP, thus the need for automation and digital transformation. The Company ER is a…

Hospitality and COVID-19: a willingness to choose e-consultation owing to unemployment and home isolation

Rajat Kumar Behera, Pradip Kumar Bala, Prabin Kumar Panigrahi, Nripendra P. Rana

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared as a pandemic since COVID-19's widespread outbreak and the hospitality industry has been the hardest hit due to lockdown. Consequently…

Antecedents and effects of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices

Dimitrios Chatzoudes, Prodromos Chatzoglou

During the previous two decades, “Green Supply Chain Management” (GSCM) has been gaining the attention of researchers and practitioners from various fields (e.g. operations…

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Characterization of Lean Six Sigma projects in healthcare settings: empirical research

Juliano Endrigo Sordan, Clésio Aparecido Marinho, Pedro Carlos Oprime, Márcio Lopes Pimenta, Roy Andersson

This paper aims to characterize a sample of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects in healthcare settings and discuss some specificities of operational excellence (OPEX) initiatives in…

Maturity models in SSCM: a systematic review aimed at consolidating models and outlining possibilities for future research

Raquel Ottoboni Pavan, Marco Antonio Ferreira, Nelson Oliveira Stefanelli, Gislaine Camila Lapasini Leal

This research analyzes the current knowledge regarding the use of maturity models (MMs) in SSCM, aiming to identify the main characteristics, trends and research gaps on the…

Study of emerging avenues in supply chain resilience; the case of integration of additive manufacturing with spare parts procurement

Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Onkar Kulkarni, Ashutosh Mishra

The purpose of this research was to study the impacts of adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) for spare parts procurement, specifically in the context of supply chain…

Firms’ dynamic capabilities and supply chain risk management: a B2B perspective

Mohammad Osman Gani, Yoshi Takahashi, Surajit Bag, Muhammad Sabbir Rahman

This study examines the relationships between collaboration capability (CC) and supply chain risk management (SCRM) and the mediating role of supply chain alignment (SCA) between…

Employee attrition prediction in a pharmaceutical company using both machine learning approach and qualitative data

Fatemeh Mozaffari, Marzieh Rahimi, Hamidreza Yazdani, Babak Sohrabi

This research intends to develop a model for predicting employees at a high-risk attrition and identify the most important factors affecting them.

Exploring consumers' motives for electric vehicle adoption: bridging the attitude–behavior gap

Pallavi Chaturvedi, Kushagra Kulshreshtha, Vikas Tripathi, Durgesh Agnihotri

The current study aims to investigate the various consumption motives (hedonic, gain and normative) responsible for strengthening consumers' intentions toward purchase behavior…

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A new strategic approach for R&D project portfolio selection using efficiency-uncertainty maps

Mehdi Namazi, Madjid Tavana, Emran Mohammadi, Ali Bonyadi Naeini

New business practices and the globalization of markets force firms to take innovation as the fundamental pillar of their competitive strategy. Research and Development (R&D…

Individual change agents for corporate sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review

Maike Buhr, Dorli Harms, Stefan Schaltegger

Individual change agents for corporate sustainability can drive the transformation of organizations and foster sustainable development. Current research literature is growing and…

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Stakeholder perceptions of sustainability reporting on the websites of technical universities in Ghana

Kwame Oduro Amoako, Emmanuel Opoku Marfo, Ellis Kofi Akwaa-Sekyi, Newman Amaning, Nicholas Yankey

This paper explores stakeholder perceptions on the nature and extent of sustainability reporting on the websites of technical universities (TUs) in Ghana.

The accident-adjusted dynamic efficiency of public bus operators in metropolitan cities of India

Rachita Gulati

The study evaluates the accident-adjusted dynamic efficiency of public bus operators providing bus transportation services in eight major metropolitan cities of India.

CAC-Redes: a new and quali-quantitative model to increase the competitiveness of companies operating in business networks

Jose Celso Contador, Jose Luiz Contador, Walter Cardoso Satyro

This paper proposes the “fields and weapons of the competition model applied to business networks” – CAC-Redes (in Portuguese, Campos e Armas da Competição – Redes de negócio), an…

Customer experiences in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) in context to FinTech: a fuzzy AHP approach

Anchal Arora, Sanjay Gupta, Chandrika Devi, Nidhi Walia

The financial technology (FinTech) era has brought a revolutionary change in the financial sector’s customer experiences at the national and global levels. The importance of…

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Mapping the field of sustainable procurement: a bibliometric analysis

Gaurav Kabra, Samir K. Srivastava, Vinit Ghosh

The study aims to analyze the intellectual structure in sustainable procurement (SP) research to identify the knowledge research clusters and provide potential avenues for future…

Blockchain technology for viable circular digital supplychains: an integrated approach for evaluating the implementation barriers

Abla Chaouni Benabdellah, Kamar Zekhnini, Anass Cherrafi, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Anil Kumar, Jamal El Baz

Blockchain technology (BT) is creating a new standard for all business operations. It can assist businesses in handling the complexity of circular digital supply chain (DCM…

Evaluating the decentralization of public hospitals in Turkey in terms of technical efficiency: data envelopment analysis and Malmquist index

Hasan Bağcı, Seyhan Çil Koçyiğit

Decree Law No. 663 introduced a decentralized organizational structure and administration pertaining to Turkish public hospitals in November 2011. This study aims to explore the…

Data-based drivers of big data analytics utilization: moderating role of IT proactive climate

Atiyeh Seifian, Mohamad Bahrami, Sajjad Shokouhyar, Sina Shokoohyar

This study uses the resource-based view (RBV) and isomorphism to investigate the influence of data-based resources (i.e. bigness of data, data accessibility (DA) and data…

Exploring research trends of procrastination: a bibliometric analysis during 2010 to 2020

Gunjan Sharma, Kushagra Kulshreshtha

The aim of this paper is to offer insight into procrastination over the past decade using bibliometric analysis to gauge the evolving journey of this concept. Thus, the concept of…

Understanding the dynamics of entrepreneurial implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Santoshi Sengupta, Sanjay Dhir

The purpose of this study is to understand the rational cogent correlation among the factors that are responsible for the implementation of entrepreneurship to reinstate the…

Effect of innovation practices of banks on customer loyalty: an SEM-ANN approach

Pankaj Tiwari

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of banking innovations (INNs) on customer experience (EXP), satisfaction (SAT) and loyalty (LOY).

Leagile manufacturing system adoption in an emerging economy: an examination of technological, organizational and environmental drivers

Gharib Hashem, Mohamed Aboelmaged

Rapid changes in the global environment and the effects of existing economic issues triggered by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine have posed several challenges for manufacturing…

Team leader survival syndrome, tenure and management styles towards professional subordinates on construction megaprojects; sustainability and corporate governance

Martin Evans, Peter Farrell

The modern construction industry is highly competitive and cost driven, with tangible adversarial relationships between projects' contractual parties at individual and…

Virtual fun in a virtual workplace: employee socialization for “work from home”

Koustab Ghosh, Sweta Sinha, Dheeraj Sharma

This paper introduces “virtual fun at the virtual workplace” and conceptualizes its impact on virtual socialization and the formation of virtual professional ties. The conceptual…

Investigating the influence of total productive maintenance key success factors on the social sustainability dimension of manufacturing SMEs

Ashutosh Samadhiya, Rajat Agrawal, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

Key success factors (KSFs) of total productive maintenance (TPM) have historically played a vital role in attaining economic and ecological sustainability but have overlooked…

Two decades of workplace ecological behaviour: a systematic literature review

Khalid Farooq, Mohd Yusoff Yusliza

This research offered a systematic and comprehensive literature review in analysing current studies on employee ecological behaviour (EEB) strategies and settings to determine…

Cover of Benchmarking: An International Journal

ISSN:

1463-5771

Online date, start – end:

1999

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran