.... Performance measurement Operational performance Globalization Productivity Management of technology The concept of productivity is the expected indicator of efficiency in any production-based system, yet the various levels of analysis used – individual, company, sector, discipline, region...

... market; manage their supply chain; manage their Chinese customers; and their firm’s use of logistics. The instrument was developed from existing supply chain and organizational learning scales. The next section of the paper highlights the importance of China in today’s global environment. The related...

...Professor Brian Fynes and Professor Paul Coughlan; Louis Brennan; Kasra Ferdows; Janet Godsell; Ruggero Golini; Richard Keegan; Steffen Kinkel; Jagjit Singh Srai; Margaret Taylor Purpose – The past three decades have seen the transformation of manufacturing involving its global dispersion...

...Professor Brian Fynes and Professor Paul Coughlan; Robin von Haartman; Lars Bengtsson Purpose – The interest in global purchasing has increased significantly in recent years, but the impact on product innovation is not well understood. The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse...

... – This paper emphasises the dispersion of R&D activities, which is seldom addressed by existing internationalisation theories. Its investigation provides a foundation for the further extension of current internationalisation theories to consider global R&D. Moreover, the theoretical gap in the existing...

...Andreas Größler; Bjørge Timenes Laugen; Rebecca Arkader; Afonso Fleury Purpose The vast majority of literature relating to operations management originates from studies in developed markets. Emerging markets are increasingly important in global business. With this in mind, the purpose...

... the approach of ID and non‐ID companies to supply networks. ID firms rely more on local systems in terms of supply networks, while non‐ID firms have also invested at national level (subcontracting networks). The global geographical extension of supply networks stresses the ID companies' search for efficiency...

... the relationships between collaborative innovation strategies and performances. Claudio Dell'era can be contacted at: claudio.dellera@polimi.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Innovation Design Consumer behaviour Globalization Furniture industry Italy In today's business...

...Francisco Puig; Helena Marques; Pervez N. Ghauri Purpose This paper aims to analyse the impact of globalization on the manufacturing operations of industries and industrial districts and how it influences the specialization and diversification of manufacturing decisions. Design/methodology...

...‐processing services in their choices of mode of entry and resultant performance differences. Practical implications The findings are relevant for developing operations strategy, including location alternatives, for both manufacturing and service firms as different nations become a part of the global...

... of globalization, this topic is highly relevant for academics and practitioners, and a great deal of research has been conducted in this field. General overviews of this topic are provided by Melin (1992) and Malhotra et al. (2003) , to name just two examples. Globalization Emerging markets...

... of the supply network internationalisation process, proposing a model that captures the variables actually involved in such a process and their dynamic relationships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Supplier relations Production planning Footwear industry Globalization Italy Romania...

... industry to cut costs and to meet the demands of the evolving health care system (Malnight, 2001 ; Cortada and Fraser, 2005). Supply chain management Globalization Pharmaceuticals industry This paper discusses the sequences of SCM improvement initiatives in four supply networks whose...

.... Globalization Culture Operations management One of the most important trends facing managers is the ever‐increasing emphasis on globalization. In the past, many organizations competed mainly within their home country or region. Today firms purchase materials and services, develop alliances, and sell...

... consequences of globalisation. Australia Globalization Garment industry Tariffs Case studies Competitive strategy © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Abernathy et al. (1999) also discovered the textiles category had moved away from supplying fabrics to clothing...

....” This paper uses the Global Manufacturing Research Group’s (GMRG) second round database to deepen our understanding of this relationship. The shape of a scatterplot of practices versus performance resembles the shape of an American or rugby football and is often called the “performance football...

...Satish Mehra; Joyce M. Hoffman; Danilo Sirias Total quality management (TQM) has been acclaimed as an organizational philosophy to enhance global competitiveness. Will TQM continue to be a management philosophy of the future in same shape, size, and design? This paper, through literature search...

... suppliers in China operating under contract manufacturing agreements. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Tariffs Subcontracting Case studies Globalization For most of the twentieth century, Australian industry sheltered behind high duties and quotas on imports, although at the outset countries...

... an explanation of the emerging global environment within which organisations must compete, the previous approaches to explaining this area of business are explored and found to be insufficient for the new context. There follows a conceptualisation and an account of new, supporting research – a Delphi survey...

...‐dissemination” in China for increasing involvement in international production and trade activities within a global market. In this period two changes will be completed: first China will change from a planned economy to a market economy, second it will change from an “extensive” economy to an “intensive” one...