International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 64 Issue 6

Performance measurement of sustainable supply chains: a review and research questions

Alireza Tajbakhsh, Elkafi Hassini

One of the hurdles to the adoption of sustainable practices across supply chains is the lack of pan-chain performance measurements and their related information and organizational…

Humanitarian supply chains and performance measurement schemes in practice

Giulia Santarelli, Hella Abidi, Matthias Klumpp, Alberto Regattieri

The purpose of this paper is to provide a system for the performance evaluation of humanitarian supply chains. The system will help humanitarian organizations (HOs) to make better…

Labour productivity in Iranian construction projects: Perceptions of chief executive officers

Parviz Ghoddousi, Omid Poorafshar, Nicholas Chileshe, M. Reza Hosseini

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to highlight the main factors and items affecting the productivity of construction projects, based on the perceptions of CEOs…

Converging early contractor involvement (ECI) and lean construction practices for productivity enhancement: Some preliminary findings from Singapore

Low Sui Pheng, Shang Gao, Jun Liang Lin

As with many other procurement management concepts, the early contractor involvement (ECI) strategy provides an opportunity to tap on contractors’ specialist knowledge in the…

Analysis of interrelationships among excavator productivity modifying factors

Gary D. Holt, David Edwards

Excavator productivity calculations embrace myriad variables, which in turn, can be modelled in several ways. A key productivity variable is operator competence (O…

A proposed hybrid storage assignment framework: a case study

Sanjay Sharma, Bhavin Shah

A hybrid storage assignment (combination class-volume-based) framework considering quality proximity, customer and material categorization are key distinguished contents of this…

Challenges in the deployment of LSS in the higher education sector: Viewpoints from leading academics and practitioners

Jiju Antony

Although Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been widely accepted today by more than 70 per cent Fortune 500 companies, its applications in the public sector are not widely observed and…

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