Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 23 Issue 8

Some thoughts on interdisciplinarity in collaborative networks' research and manufacturing sciences

Hermann Kühnle, Rob Dekkers

Scientific progress in a field is mostly discussed within disciplines. Far less attention is paid to outside or between disciplines' work. To speed up research progresses for…

The inter‐disciplinary modelling of supply chains in the context of collaborative multi‐structural cyber‐physical networks

Dmitry Ivanov, Boris Sokolov

On modern markets, supply chains (SC) shape the competition landscape. At the same time, considerable research advancements have been recently achieved in the area of…

Entropy assessment of supply chain disruption

Olatunde Amoo Durowoju, Hing Kai Chan, Xiaojun Wang

Manufacturing organizations and networks are heavily dependent on the flow of information within and across organization boundaries. A disruption in information flow might…

A model to determine complexity in supply networks

Markus Gerschberger, Corinna Engelhardt‐Nowitzki, Sebastian Kummer, Franz Staberhofer

The purpose of this paper is to further advance an existing supplier evaluation model for the purpose of identifying those supplier relations which predominantly threaten or…

Alignment prediction in collaborative networks

Roberto da Piedade Francisco, Américo Azevedo, António Almeida

The purpose of this paper is to study the alignment measurement in collaborative networks, using the fit concept and predictive performance measurement as its main enablers. A…

Habitual domain exploration in inter‐firm networks: A framework for understanding network behaviour

Lei Ma, Yongjiang Shi, Wenwen Zhao

Based on the theory of habitual domain, the purpose of this paper is to explore inter‐firm networks' mechanisms for coping with environmental change and for assisting firms to…

Towards the explanation of goal‐oriented and opportunity‐based networks of organizations

Jens Eschenbächer, Novica Zarvić

Collaborative networks (CN) are organizational forms that are especially enabled by innovations in the area of information and communication technologies. For an in‐depth…

Appraising interdisciplinary contributions to theory for collaborative (manufacturing) networks: Still a long way to go?

Rob Dekkers, Hermann Kühnle

Progress in theory building in the field of collaborative networks in manufacturing is preponderantly seen in contributions from disciplines outside manufacturing science…

Lessons learned from the lifecycle management of collaborative enterprises networks: The case of Swiss Microtech

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Michel Pouly, Charles Huber, Jean Beeler

Research on the dynamics of Collaborative Enterprises Networks (CEN) lacks consistency and industrial feedback. The purpose of this paper is to present insights and lessons…