... 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...

... performance Foreign ownership Manufacturing Vietnam Quantitative There are several factors positively affecting SCA . Zhu and Gao (2021) found that organizational learning and technology positively affect SCA . The reasons are that organizational learning allows firms to effectively access new...

.... 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...

... Performance Overall equipment effectiveness Quantitative Availability Productivity improvement Root cause analysis In the cement industry, thermal energy accounts for about 20–25% of the production cost, and in the manufacturing process of cement, thermal energy is used mainly during the burning...

... 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 [. . .] the ability to dynamically reinvent business models...

... attributes Organisational performance Food retailers COVID-19 Quantitative Coronavirus outbreak was an unprecedented situation that enforced organizations to change the way they operate, it had adverse effects on the supply chain of firms, purchasing and supply of items got troubled for a long...

... planning. Sayan Chakraborty can be contacted at: sayanchakraborty58@gmail.com 11 02 2021 18 09 2021 28 10 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only India Quantitative Metaheuristic Facility location...

... 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...

... 02 2021 12 08 2021 04 10 2021 04 10 2021 Accounting outsourcing Finite mixture structural equation modeling Latent class analysis Segmentation Small and medium-sized enterprises Quantitative Outsourcing refers to a strategic decision to transfer an activity...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Supply chains 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...

.../licences/by/4.0/legalcode Logistics 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...

... 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...

... be contacted at: guilherme.frederico@ufpr.br Quantitative Financial performance Impact COVID-19 G-20 countries Logistics firms Before the pandemic of COVID-19, the global logistics market scale is estimated to reach $8tn in 2020 (Park and Lee, 2015). Many countries have recognised...

... at: Yvonne.badulescu@unil.ch 30 11 2020 21 05 2021 26 05 2021 01 06 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quantitative Sustainability AHP TOPSIS Risk F-AHP Partner selection Fuzzy AHP The global COVID-19...

... 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...

...., 2017). To provide practical and useful decision support, there is a need to develop tools that facilitate accurate and resilient reshoring decisions (Hilletofth et al., 2019a). 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...

...-SEM Quantitative Information sharing Emerging markets Inventory management In this era of digitisation, a well-established logistical connection among global business networks depends on decent support of information technology (IT) infrastructure and capability. An effective flow...

.... 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...

... Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quantitative Benefits and financial results Bullwhip effect Supply chain management Indian sector Threshold regression The increase in variability of demand as we move up in supply chain is very difficult to cope up...