... Limited 2012 The Netherlands Spain Supply chain management Buyer‐seller relationships Supply chain integration Cooperation Supply complexity Survey Managers aiming at improving their supply chain performance face numerous options that could possibly improve supply chain performance...

... effects on general hospitals (Fahlman and Chollet, 2006). The Netherlands Obstetrics Operations management Health services Midwifery Improving the performance of the health care sector is a task of major societal importance. Not only is the health care sector a major industry...

... and services in The Netherlands and is exploratory in nature. However, the newness of care and service modularity justifies the exploratory research approach. Practical implications This paper offers elderly care organizations in‐depth understanding of their complex and multi‐faceted specification process...

..., but they experience fewer financial advantages. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of the research is that the number of organizations investigated is limited in number and they are all profit sector companies from The Netherlands. Preferably, the number, sector and country coverage...

... is fitted in later. Nowadays, as a result, the technical subsystem is more or less neglected in socio‐technology. In The Netherlands, one particular branch of this approach is fairly popular: modern socio‐technology (Bijsterveld and Huijgen, 1995). As the firm in our case study is Dutch, we...

... and international clothing markets. Large retailing companies continue to control production in low‐wage countries by establishing production facilities in these regions, and by dominating import into The Netherlands. In some studies, a new trend in the clothing industry was signalled, namely the return...