... be transferred via customer‐supplier relationships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Buyer‐supplier relationships Collaboration Knowledge management Canada Claudia Rebolledo can be contacted at: claudia.rebolledo@hec.ca We predict that customer‐supplier relationships improve...

..., was synthesized from earlier research. Using this conceptual development, a large‐scale survey of plant managers in three industries in Canada provided an empirical basis for validating these constructs, and then assessing the relationships between structure and practices. Findings Multi‐item scales for each...

...Brent Snider © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Canada Critical success factors Manufacturing resource planning Small- to medium-sized enterprises Article Type: 2010 Awards for Excellence From: International Journal of Operations & Production Management...

... that indicates the ease and reliability by which an organization develops products by using its manufacturing and supply chain resources. Design/methodology/approach The model is tested using a sample of 205 product development projects from firms in the USA and Canada. Findings The findings of the large...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Manufacturing resource planning Small to medium‐sized enterprises Critical success factors Canada Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are of critical importance to many economies. Firms with less than 500 employees provided 51 per cent of all employment...

... in the public procurement literature. Joseph J. Schiele can be contacted at: schiele@oakland.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Acquisitions and mergers Public sector organizations Public procurement Consultants Canada Lastly, the literature identifies a number of factors...

..., greater flexibility) from AMS (Kotha and Swamidass, 2000; Armstrong and Sambamurthy, 2001). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Advanced manufacturing technologies Organizational performance Small to medium sized enterprises Canada Many small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs...

... performance of manufacturing firms operating in Australia and Canada. We used this data to test the proposition that foreign firms manage the implementation of AMT better than their domestic counterparts. Several reasons have been advanced for this largely untested proposition. Three hypotheses derived from...

...John Gordon; Amrik S. Sohal © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2001 Manufacturing Competitiveness Australia Canada Surveys Over the past decade we have witnessed free trade agreements (FTA) established among countries in a number of regions around the world, including Europe...

... to be contributing primarily to the evaluation itself as opposed to contributing to long‐term organizational effectiveness. Canada Documentation Just‐in‐time Management Motor industry Suppliers Surveys A study of the supplier evaluation process of a North American automotive manufacturer...

... category of clients, the personalization of contact points between professionals (i.e. the human‐service equivalent of just‐in‐time in manufacturing) and the use of individualized service plans. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Canada Human resource management Operations management Professionals Social...