... case study in nine hospitals. We find six key discrepancies between scheduling theory and healthcare practice, which we subsequently interpret through the lenses of the Theory of Swift and Even Flow and related OM theory. Findings The basic problem structure assumed in the scheduling literature...

... Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Industry 4.0 Connected worker programme Absorptive capacity Leadership Case study As the fourth industrial revolution (i.e. Industry 4.0, abbreviated here as I4.0) is afoot, scholars and practitioners...

... Equity and inclusion DEI Social responsibility Supply chain management Digitalisation Case study Almost 85% of Fortune 500 companies have supplier diversity initiatives, and all Fortune 100 firms have made public announcements about their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives...

... on performance. Design/methodology/approach An embedded multiple-case study was conducted to examine elements of a European jet fighter’s manufacturing and after-sales supply chain. The embedded cases concern provider contracts with first-tier suppliers of product and service offerings. Data collection...

...Antonina Tsvetkova; Britta Gammelgaard Purpose This study aims to explore how operational resilience can be achieved within supply ecosystems in the delicate yet harsh natural environments of the Arctic. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth, multiple qualitative case study of offshore...

... engagement, evidenced in their commitment to serving marginalized stakeholders, as well as the responses adopted to these trade-offs. Design/methodology/approach The study follows a theory elaboration approach through a multiple case study design. The authors draw on insights from stakeholder theory...

... to investigate how buying firms change their existing procurement institutions to adopt and advance social procurement. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an in-depth case study of a social procurement initiative in the UK. This case study comprised of 16 buying firms that were actively...

... This paper fills this gap through a multiple-case study, whereby nine firms from varying structures, regions and manufacturing industries were examined. Qualitative content analysis was employed to examine the collected primary (27 semi-structured interviews) and secondary data (internal management reports...

.... Case study Luxury products Supplier development Capabilities Paradoxes Process model In recent years, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have increasingly turned to their supply networks as a strategic source of competitive advantage (Jaaskelainen et al., 2022 ; Wagner, 2010...

... underlying the components of expectancy, valence and instrumentality. Design/methodology/approach This is a multiple-case study of four Fintech companies using blockchain technology to promote the performance of supply chain operations and financing. Findings The results show that blockchain-enabled...

...) perspective? Do such C2C product exchanges form what might be called “sharing supply chains”? What are the characteristics of these sharing supply chains? Design/methodology/approach The authors rely on a single case study of Vestiaire Collective (VC), a C2C platform that links consumers buying...

.... Design/methodology/approach An exploratory multiple-case study methodology involved in-depth semistructured interviews with informants at three automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Findings Dynamic complexity destabilizes MDSs primarily via internal horizontal interactions between...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Service operations Servitization Case study Global operations Network Many globally operating engineering and manufacturing companies, who have in recent decades integrated service offerings into their product portfolios (Baines and Lightfoot...

... lean practices. This research attempts to address this issue by examining how soft lean practices enhance organizational lean readiness, and in turn increase the success of lean implementation. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts a single case study design in a small-medium enterprise...

... of the first studies to address how a collaborative large project governance model becomes the norm at the institutional field level beyond the boundaries of an individual project or organization. Governance Large projects Project alliancing Case study Institutional theory 08 12 2021...

... professionals play a key role in determining operational performance, the authors carried out an in-depth case study at a busy, Level 1 trauma center in The Netherlands. In total, 28 interviews were conducted over an 18-month period. Findings The authors reveal the existence of structural, relational...

... in electronics SC contexts and the related management responses by applying a paradox perspective. Design/methodology/approach A single case study on the electronics SC is conducted with companies and third-party organizations as embedded units of analysis, using semi-structured interviews...

..., lack of technical skills and training, lack of resources, privacy concerns, regulatory problems, pilot scalability issues and governance challenges. Second, evidence from our case study revealed the blockchain application could have added value to improve visibility and traceability, thus contributing...

... as a necessary component in the theory building process (Welch et al., 2011). As an illustrative example, Salonen (2011) utilizes in-depth case studies to explore how engagement in solution business can be interpreted as an enactment of the service-dominant logic among industrial manufacturers...

...Melanie E. Kreye; Dirk Pieter van Donk Servitization Case study Consumer products Business-to-consumer Triads Circular economy Sustainability Melanie E. Kreye can be contacted at: mkreye@dtu.dk 11 07 2020 05 10 2020 25 02 2021 17 03 2021 19 03 2021...