...Desirée H. van Dun; Pauline Weritz; Maneesh Kumar Purpose Using absorptive capacity theory, we explore the factors affecting the adoption of Industry 4.0 technology in daily operations and examine how leadership enhances absorptive capacity through social integration mechanisms (SIMs). Design...

...Yujia Deng; Kaixin Zheng; Zhen He; Min Zhang Purpose The advent of digital technologies has ushered in a new era of quality management (QM) known as Quality 4.0 (Q4.0). The successful implementation of Q4.0 requires the involvement of both leaders and employees. Leadership plays a critical role...

...Elliot Bendoly; Daniel G. Bachrach; Terry L. Esper; Christian Blanco; Jane Iversen; Yong Yin Purpose Top-level operations leaders can drive organizational performance across a broad range of pro-environmental objectives. The authors’ focus is on understanding which specific leadership competencies...

... supplier association is constructed from multiple data sets, including the Japan Patent Office, BoardEx and S&PCapitalIQ. The authors test the hypotheses using multivariate techniques, moderation analysis and endogeneity tests. The results indicate that leadership relationships to Toyota and its...

...Desirée H. van Dun; Celeste P.M. Wilderom Purpose Although empirical tests of effective lean-team leadership are scarce, leaders are often blamed when lean work-floor initiatives fail. In the present study, a lean-team leader’s work values are assumed to affect his or her team members’ behaviors...

... implementation, little has been written about the specific management actions and behaviors that lead to success. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Task commitment Leadership Quality management Continuous improvement Process improvement Influence tactics Leader-member exchange (LMX...

...Ravi Kathuria; Fariborz Y. Partovi; Jeffrey H. Greenhaus Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of manufacturing leadership in enhancing manufacturing performance for different manufacturing configurations. Design/methodology/approach Survey data collected from three levels...

... projects Project teams Leadership Team management Interest in how project management practices can be improved to create conditions for project success is high for both practitioners and researchers (Kieser and Nicolai, 2005 ; Lingham et al., 2006). Although scholars theorise...

...Brian Squire David   Needle . Business in Context . Thomson Learning , 2004 . 646 pp. , ISBN: 1‐86152‐992‐9   £31.99 4th ed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> General management Business Leadership Teaching This introduction to business...

... with significant results. Findings Leadership (social learning theory), business process re‐engineering (change the company not the technology) and acquisition strategy (buy, do not make) were found to be significant predictors of adoption performance (final model R²=43 percent, F=5.5...