...Seng Cheong Cheah; Cheng Ling Tan Purpose This study intends to examine the relationships between external knowledge sourcing (EKS), organizational ambidexterity (OA), and manufacturing performance (MP) in the context of large manufacturing firms within a dynamic environment setting. The research...

... under study. Later, the simulation model of a firm is created in a discrete-event simulation (DES) software Arena© to evaluate the applicability of the proposed APP. A comparative analysis of the manufacturing performance levels (namely throughput, lead time, and resource utilization) achieved through...

...Saumyaranjan Sahoo Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of human-related support practices, total productive maintenance (TPM) practices, and total quality management (TQM) practices on manufacturing performance parameters and their inter-relationship. Design/methodology...

... enterprises Lean production Manufacturing performance Lean tools Since the 1980s, scholars have been engaged in research to better understand and predict outcomes of lean transformation while practitioners continue their quest to operationalize and apply lean concepts for process and business...