...-use rights only Lean Regression analysis Continuous improvement During the last 3 decades, as lean production (Womack et al., 1990 ; Womack and Jones, 1996 ; Holweg, 2007) spread in a variety of industries, research has widely investigated the relationship between lean...

... strategy in mitigating service disruptions. The results provide further support for the effectiveness of the focused strategy in responding to service disruptions in service organizations. Benchmarking Service operations Operations planning Regression analysis Mahour Mellat Parast can...

... at: anupam.kumar@howard.edu 28 01 2020 27 05 2020 17 09 2020 30 09 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Environmental management Buyer-supplier relationships Top management team Alignment Regression analysis...

... apply hierarchical regression analysis to study a sample of 192 European industrial equipment manufacturers. Data for each firm are collected from surveys of two key informants in each firm, as well as from public sources. Findings Firms' personnel’s ability to integrate information and knowledge...

... Supply chain Regression analysis Financial statements The bullwhip effect (BWE) is considered to be a key phenomenon in supply chain management. The principal notion of BWE is that demand variability increases as one moves upstream in a supply chain. This can cause several inefficiencies...

... the Kraljic matrix according to purchasing capability. Design/methodology/approach – Tested hypotheses by subjecting survey data from 338 manufacturers on buyer-supplier relationships in Europe and North America to regression analysis. Findings – Shows three situations where relative power...

... these effects are: Shawnee K. Vickery can be contacted at: vickery@msu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Product Design Operations management Competitive strategy Integration Regression analysis Automotive industry While quality can be improved using a variety of production...

...Giovani J.C. da Silveira; Rebecca Arkader Purpose To explore the paths by which coordination investments with suppliers and customers relate to improvements in delivery speed, delivery reliability, and manufacturing lead‐time. Design/methodology/approach Regression analysis of data on supply...

.... Improvement Investment Technology Manufacturing Performance Regression analysis Manufacturing excellence often results from the combined use of successive incremental improvement techniques and capital investment in equipment or technology. Successive incremental improvement techniques should...

... relevant scales for this study. Validate the reliability of all scales. Perform a correlation analysis on the scales to detect any multicollinearity problem in the infrastructural scales. Perform a stepwise regression analysis to identify any significant contribution of each infrastructural scale...