...Srichandan Sahu; K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao Purpose To assess the state of supply chain management (SCM) research in India and to understand the research trends and methodologies used. The present study also aims to create a taxonomy of the subject areas researched in India. Design/methodology...

... the logistics company and extend into order‐handling services (Timmers, 1999; Blankenhorn, 1997; FedEx, n.d.). The following sections analyses the eight cases by investigating the driving forces for e‐commerce application, adoption approach and methodology, overall outcomes and the factors of success...

... will be to identify tools, processes (methodologies) and metrics that can serve as enablers for making benchmarking for agility effective and efficient. The paper will accomplish this by providing a review of current practice and presentation of future potential developments. Initially the paper will provide...

...Aguinaldo Santos; James A. Powell; John Hinks This paper presents a methodological contribution to benchmarking studies of production practices. It presents some of the main findings gathered from a benchmarking study developed between UK and Brazilian construction sites. The study was carried out...

...Nina L Reynolds This paper looks at the methodology adopted for international marketing research by commercial marketing research agencies. It considers the actual practices used by providers of commercial international marketing research, and reveals that while most commercial researchers...

... reported to members in order to be successful. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Benchmarking Methodology Project management Although comparative data have been used for many years in some industries, including higher education, benchmarking as defined today was developed in the early 1980s...

... Methodology Successful companies in every industry engage in a variety of practices, which lead to achievement of high level performance. Benchmarking is one of the most recent methodologies that has emerged in corporate attempts to gain and maintain competitive advantage. Benchmarking provides...

...Sergio Beretta; Andrea Dossi; Hugh Grove In this article it is contended that methodological issues implicit in benchmarking studies have to be clearly appreciated by management in assessing the reliability of performance gaps and the identification of sound practices that can be successfully...

... base in research approaches, many of which result in inapplicable or irrelevant strategy formulations. Aims to provide a framework for researching strategy formulation and implementation which avoids full predefinition of research objectives and methodology, but which rather allows them to emerge...