...Daryl John Powell; Désirée A. Laubengaier; Guilherme Luz Tortorella; Henrik Saabye; Jiju Antony; Raffaella Cagliano Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the digitalization of operational processes and activities in lean manufacturing firms and explore the associated learning...

...Bin Guo; Xi Li; Tanfei Liu; Dong Wu Purpose Supplier–supplier coopetition is vital to buyer innovation in reality. However, it has not received enough attention in prior research. Integrating the ability-motivation-opportunity framework of organizational learning perspective and the awareness...

... psychological safety and learning. Design/methodology/approach This research setting is the Romanian division of a leading European energy company. The authors collected team-level audit and survey data, which the authors used to test the effect of lean implementation on team psychological safety...

...Thomas Borup Kristensen; Henrik Saabye; Amy Edmondson Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context...

... with the processes and may have little experience. It is important for managers to understand how quickly inexperienced workers arrive at full productivity and which factors support workers in improving their productivity. This paper aims to investigate how learning improves the performance of order pickers, and how...

...Jeroen De Mast; Bart A. Lameijer; Kevin Linderman; Andrew Van de Ven Purpose The purpose of this study is to discover the learning mechanisms and temporal dynamics of implementing systems (Six Sigma) as it unfolds over time. Design/methodology/approach The data come from a European engineering...

... paradigms engender a number of organizational endeavors, which are actually complex processes being managed as projects, using the PjM body of knowledge. Because each instantiation takes a somewhat different form, it is treated as a one-of-a-kind undertaking; whereby many of the opportunities for learning...

...Kostas Selviaridis; Martin Spring Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how buyers and suppliers in supply chains learn to align their performance objectives and incentives through contracting. Design/methodology/approach Two longitudinal case studies of the process of supply...

...’ inventory. The suppliers’ mediating role is captured as disruption in obtaining PC components through their sales. Only JET had any negative effect, further quantified as short-term and long-term. The TF instead portrays an insignificant but positive aftermath, which is construed as showing learning...

... supply chain management. Professor Constantin Blome can be contacted at: constantin.blome@uclouvain.be © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Sustainability Supply chain management Survey Learning Buyer-supplier relationships Sustainable supply chain management Supplier collaboration...

... been argued that this method fails to actively engage students in the learning process (Fish, 2007). This paper reports the findings of a study exploring the preferences of OM students towards different teaching methods. We then examine the perceived effectiveness of experiential teaching methods...

...Alistair Brandon‐Jones; Niall Piercy; Nigel Slack; Marc Lambrecht; Stefan Creemers; Robert Boute; Roel Leus Purpose The production dice game is a powerful learning exercise focusing on the impact of variability and dependency on throughput and work‐in‐process inventory of flow lines. This paper...

... educators within the discipline. Design/methodology/approach The papers within this special issue include empirical assessments of a problem‐based learning enterprise resource planning (ERP) simulation; a computer‐based learning tool for material requirements planning (MRP); a simulation of assembly...

... both structural and process factors are important, the most significant factors affecting alliance success are the adaptability and openness of the alliance partners, human resource practices and partners' learning capability during implementation. Alliance partners should pay more attention...

...Andrew Greasley; David Bennett; Kay Greasley This paper describes a project aimed at assessing the experience of a virtual learning environment (VLE) among students studying courses in operations management. The project was supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) under...

...Harry Boer; Sarah Caffyn; Mariano Corso; Paul Coughlan; José Gieskes; Mats Magnusson; Sara Pavesi; Stefano Ronchi Competition today is forcing companies to increase their effectiveness through exploiting synergy and learning in product innovation. Literature, however, is still mainly focused on how...

... to find and realize a match between these “modalities”. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Self‐managing teams Work design Skills Employee attitudes Learning In functionally designed firms, the similarity of capacities is the main design principle. Units will generally consist of specialized...

... organisations, but a single measure of output needs to be established. The paper also shows how different phases and rates of learning may be linked to organisational and technological change, and discusses how an experience curve might be used to monitor improvement and establish future cost‐related...

... and to learn from the past. A historical view might help managers to stand back; to assess the coherence of their strategies; and to understand the forces that formed them. If so, how might managers most effectively access the past? Researchers have used interviews with published and otherwise documented...

... reasons is not the issue. The real problem is that, true or not, students perceive them to be true. A survey was conducted to determine student perceptions of both POM coursework and manufacturing careers. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Learning Manufacturing Operations management...