.../approach – Case study based on semi-structured interviews with participants in lean conversion from three companies in Denmark. The companies come from different business sectors: public transport, healthcare and finance. Findings – This study identifies three types of organisational paradoxes...

... the characteristics of the “new economy”. The findings from this study indicate that the relationship between PM adoption and the organisational characteristics/external environment is more complicated than anticipated. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Denmark Organizational performance...

... affect other plants in the manufacturing network? Denmark Manufacturing industries Operations management Manufacturing network Manufacturing plant Global operations management Since the late 1980s, manufacturing has become more international because it is the single largest type...

.... The organisational devices affiliated with such relationships include: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Manufacturing systems Innovation Strategic manufacturing Knowledge organizations Denmark From all sides it comes, the pressure compelling industrial companies to adjust and to adapt...

... to their manufacturing strategy. Finally, the study adds to the scarce literature on small country studies. Management strategy Business performance Denmark Manufacturing industries Many studies have been published in 1990s on the relationships between practices and performance (see Dangayach and Deshmukh...

... Sander Kristensen University of Aalborg, Denmark Flying Prototypes 197 Introduction Quality Function Deployment (QFD) builds upon the ideal that an entire company, including the production department, can react to "the true voice of the customer"[1]. The House of Quality technique of QFD does...