Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 28 Issue 3

Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian palm oil mills: Priority and current performance

Ilyana Abdullah, Wan Hasrulnizzam Wan Mahmood, Hafidz Fazli Md Fauadi, Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman, Saiful Bahri Mohamed

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implementation of sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian palm oil mills (POMs) by comparing the status of their current…

Green supply chain management practices and performance: The role of firm-size for emerging economies

Lokesh Vijayvargy, Jitesh Thakkar, Gopal Agarwal

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of organizational size on adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices for the Indian industry. It also…

Research in global operations management: some highlights and potential future trends

Krisztina Demeter

The purpose of this paper is to shortly overview the research in international operations management (OM), to provide background to the papers published in this special section.

Supply chain integration within global manufacturing networks: a contingency flow-based view

Ruggero Golini, Federico Caniato, Matteo Kalchschmidt

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the role of the plant in a manufacturing network (MN) affects the configurations of the flows of goods among plants, suppliers and…

The impact of product architecture on global operations network design

Sebastian Pashaei, Jan Olhager

The purpose of this paper is to explore how integral and modular product architectures influence the design properties of the global operations network.

The impact of distance on headquarters’ network management capabilities

Alona Mykhaylenko, Brian V. Waehrens, Dmitrij Slepniov

The ability of an organisation’s headquarters (HQ) to bring value to and manage a globally dispersed multinational enterprise has been questioned in the existing literature. The…

Prerequisite for lateral knowledge flow in manufacturing networks

Maike Scherrer, Patricia Deflorin

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the prerequisites for lateral knowledge transfer in manufacturing networks.