... enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana’s sachet water industry. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative survey methodology was used, targeting procurement and supply chain personnel within Ghanaian SMEs. Data from 245 respondents were collected and analyzed using structural equation modeling ( SEM ) to test...

... 2024 15 07 2025 25 08 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Internationalization Supply chain agility Business performance Foreign ownership Manufacturing Vietnam Quantitative Internationalization...

.... Bharti Ramtiyal can be contacted at: bharti.mnit2022@gmail.com 03 04 2023 01 07 2023 17 07 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quantitative Leadership New business or process or operations models Emerging...

... by Nakajima (1998) and De Groote (1995) . Figure 2. Definitions of OEE variables Performance Overall equipment effectiveness Quantitative Availability Productivity improvement Root cause analysis In the cement industry, thermal energy accounts for about 20–25...

... 01 09 2022 24 09 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Supply chain Supply chain integration Performance Resilience Robustness COVID-19 Quantitative COVID-19 pandemic has had serious impacts on supply chains...

... 15 03 2022 17 03 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only SCM practices Retail outlet attributes Organisational performance Food retailers COVID-19 Quantitative Coronavirus outbreak was an unprecedented situation...

... India Quantitative Metaheuristic Facility location Mathematical modelling Epidemic outbreak Figure 1. Framework of the research problem The remainder of the paper is organized as follows; in Section 2, brief literature to the study is discussed. Section 3 discusses the problem...

... the overall impact of COVID-19 on the sustainable operations of the firm such as sourcing, procurement, economic performance, social responsibility, consumption and distributions. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a quantitative technique using data collected from 708 respondents. Structural...

... analysis Segmentation Small and medium-sized enterprises Quantitative Outsourcing refers to a strategic decision to transfer an activity to be carried out by another company. Accounting researchers have predominantly built on transaction cost economics (TCE) and examined topics...

... Bullwhip effect Blockchain Shared ledger Innovation Quantitative New business or process or operations models Knowledge management Business improvement Contract negotiation In today’s globalized competitive environment, there is intense competition among supply chain (SC) members to provide...

... outsourcing Market size Logistics expenditure Costs Survey methodology Quantitative Logistics may be considered a major cost both on a company level as well as when national economies are concerned. Depending on the scope and method of analysis, logistics is considered to account for around 10...

... of the company for it to be successful. In this regard, this paper aims to examine and compare the relative efficiency of two models, namely, supply chain operations reference (SCOR) and the balanced scorecard (BSC) for measuring the supply chain performance. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative...

... that it is unique in evaluating logistics firms’ financial performance from a global perspective, considering the context of this historical pandemic. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quantitative Financial performance Impact COVID-19 G-20...

... of the evolution over time, the life cycle of the CNO can be extended based on what the partnership could become, particularly in the case of a global pandemic, not only based on its current situation. Quantitative Sustainability AHP TOPSIS Risk F-AHP Partner selection Fuzzy AHP When it comes...

... behaviour Environmental uncertainty Power asymmetry Information sharing Quantitative Opportunism is one of the practices inhibiting the participation of African firms in global supply chains (Ladu, 2014 ; Makhubele, 2014). Opportunism is “self-interest with guile” (Williamson, 1975 , p. 47...

... are applied to evaluate 20 identical manufacturing reshoring scenarios, allowing a comparison of their output. The sensitivity analysis demonstrates the relative importance of the reshoring criteria. Quantitative Decision-making AHP Fuzzy-AHP Manufacturing relocation Reshoring Initial screening...

... works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Quantitative Financial performance Business...

... 05 2020 07 09 2020 26 09 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Inventory technology capability Inventory efficiency Supply chain integration IR4.0 PLS-SEM Quantitative Information sharing Emerging markets...

.... The focus group included a quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (discussion) evaluation of the extracted critical operations capabilities. Findings The empirical findings revealed that all the capabilities identified in the literature review are considered critical in a high-cost environment...

... as a threshold variable. Sachin Gupta can be contacted at: orsachin@gmail.com 30 05 2019 08 10 2019 04 11 2019 04 01 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quantitative Benefits and financial results Bullwhip...