... performance Empirical study A supply chain network refers to a network of firms engaged in producing products and providing services to customers (Choi and Hong, 2002). The success of a supply chain rests with the production, transport, and sales of products or services in a timely and economical...

... Policy Conceptual system dynamics model (SD) Empirical study Health emergencies and supply chain disruption The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as an unprecedented global health crisis. As health authorities were scrambling to combat the disease, the very pandemic...

... contribution to corporate strategic formulation and financial profitability was also investigated. Managerial implications of our findings are presented. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Operations strategy Taxonomy Small enterprises Medium enterprises Singapore Empirical study...

... Implementation Empirical study Business process re‐engineering (BPR) as an approach to performance improvement was established in 1990 (Hammer, 1990 ; Davenport and Short, 1990). It is a controversial approach with many authors highly critical of some of its methods and assumptions. For example, Grint...

... enterprises Subcontracting Management Performance Empirical study Many factors have been put forward by the literature to explain the success of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Some are related to the external environment in which they operate, such as the supportiveness of public policies...

... that cross‐functional team cooperation is vital not only to the successful implementation of projects but also to the performance of the organization in general. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Marketing Operations strategy Interfaces Empirical study Customer satisfaction Relationship marketing...

... quality and conformance quality) which then in turn indirectly impacts upon external quality (quality‐in‐use and customer satisfaction). The empirical studies reviewed all support the relationship between quality practices and conformance quality. Furthermore, empirical evidence (see Hanson et al...

.... This development activity itself can be publishable (as for example Anderson et al., 1994; Flynn et al., 1994; Forza, 1995). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Operations management Methodology Surveys Research Empirical study Quality If we compare contemporary research in operations...

...R.S.M. Lau The process of identifying and ranking the competitive factors is critical to management for formulating manufacturing strategy because it prioritizes criteria by which manufacturing performance will eventually be evaluated. An empirical study of 382 US computer and electronics firms...

... in. These included: Fiat, Olivetti, Italtel, Zanussi-Electrolux, Aprilia, Magneti Marelli, Merloni, etc. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2001 Performance measurement Models Performance indicators Design Empirical study Operations management The subject of performance measurement...

... than it has in the past. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Empirical study Operations management Research Closing the gap: a polemic on plant-based research in operations management Terry Hill, Alastair Nicholson and Roy Westbrook London Business School, London, UK A polemic on plant-based research...