... at: arnaldo.camuffo@unibocconi.it 25 10 2022 25 04 2023 03 06 2023 30 06 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Lean Regression analysis Continuous improvement Recent lean literature explicitly advocates...

... 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Benchmarking Service operations Operations planning Regression analysis Table 1 summarizes a review of the literature on a focused strategy in service organizations. Several...

... will impede consensual processes of strategic decision-making and negatively impact EVP. Environmental management Buyer-supplier relationships Top management team Alignment Regression analysis Research has established that firm level environmental strategies are influenced by the C-Suite...

... 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...

... enables thorough and robust analyses to characterize supply chain relationships and gain a deeper understanding of their impact on bullwhip. Bullwhip effect Relational capital Supply chain Regression analysis Financial statements The bullwhip effect (BWE) is considered to be a key...

... 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...

... with a corresponding reduction in carrying costs (Collier, 1981) and consequently total cost. Product Design Operations management Competitive strategy Integration Regression analysis Automotive industry Product modularity as a means to gain competitive advantage is increasing in prevalence (Baldwin...

...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...

... 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 streamline the production process through...

... a stepwise regression analysis to identify any significant contribution of each infrastructural scale on manufacturing flexibility. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Empirical studies Flexibility Infrastructure Manufacturing Regression analysis An increasing number of manufacturing managers...